This post exists because my mother screamed at me on the phone. She asked who I was voting for, and before I could get a word in she told me, in no uncertain terms: “We are Likud!!” My...
Tag - Israeli elections 2026
October 7th: Three Years Ago This Morning
I’m writing this at about the same hour I woke up three years ago. That Saturday morning the walls of my apartment in Jerusalem started shaking from booms, and at 8:15 the sirens went off. It...
Israel Is Losing Its Friends. Here Is How We Get Them Back.
The Knesset is dissolving. Elections are coming in October. And I am standing in the Mahane Yehuda market with my kids, watching an old Kurdish vendor arrange tangerines next to a Haredi family...