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Breaking the heifer’s neck
When I talk about "the day after," I don’t mean the day after in Gaza. There, it seems, things will probably continue to be bad, mainly...
Ayala Shalev
4 days ago6 min read
Reality Check
These days, when lies are truth – George Orwell so aptly described – it’s more important than ever to stay alert and critical in general,...
Amir Shperling
Jul 35 min read
Who’s on the Road to Recovery?
Yael and I have known each other for many years, and I know that "Road to Recovery" remains one of the few organizations where Israelis...
Ayala Shalev
Jun 267 min read
What should I write about here today?
The “situation,” as we call it here, keeps getting worse, and many questions that need to be asked are left behind—as usual in our...
Ayala Shalev
Jun 195 min read
Who’s fighting who here?
A very special woman, Mai is. I know, because we know each other for many years now. A few weeks ago I came to visit her, we had dinner...
Mai Shahin
Jun 124 min read
A Shared Fate
On the streets, on social media, and even in my own social circle, I keep encountering this statement: “Hamas is to blame for...
Assaf David
Jun 57 min read
Gaza residents changed the equation
The residents of Gaza, through their blood and their sacrifice, have changed the equation. They have torn off all the masks and put a...
Majd Asadi
May 295 min read
About Denial
Piaget, one of the most important researchers in developmental psychology, who studied the development of thinking and understanding in...
Ayala Shalev
May 225 min read
Why do Palestinians hate yellow?
Beyond the fence, in a place the Israeli regime prefers we don’t look at, people live a different kind of life, different from anything...
Iris Gur
May 155 min read
Between Protest and Struggle
A protest seeks reform; a struggle seeks rebuilding. A protest asks permission from the system. A struggle takes responsibility – even...
Sawsan Masarwa
May 83 min read
This Must Stop
In my mind’s eye I sometimes see this picture, how once when we were young, we would read the horrible descriptions of distant wars, of...
Ayala Shalev
May 44 min read
#Forcibly_Involved
Hashtag – forcibly involved Once upon a time / she was / they were and are gone The format of words opening every naming of a child /...
Adi Ronen Argov
Apr 303 min read
On Being Against the Genocide
First off, transparency - I tend to reject psychological analysis based on remote diagnosis, without personally knowing celebrities and...
Itay Kander
Apr 194 min read
A Day with the Mobile Clinic in Talfit
The mobile clinic of Physicians for Human Rights arrives in Talfit , south of Nablus , a village with about 5,000 inhabitants. The way...
Dan Turner
Mar 123 min read
Humanitarian Aid
The Israeli greeting to the tortured residents of the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan took an especially cruel...
Orly Noy
Mar 43 min read
Who could sing game songs?
Is there anyone left to write children’s songs in Gaza? For children left in Gaza? And who could sing game songs? And do the moves in her...
Meirav Trachtman Cohen
Feb 143 min read
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