Two war poems on pilots: From WWII to the Gaza War

by mgall74 | Jan 3, 2026 | Israeli News

Four P-51 Mustangs flying in formation. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. Credit: Toni Frisell / Library of CongressContemporary Israeli poet Eli Eliahu’s ‘PILOTS,’ written in 2025, and the late renowned American poet Howard Nemerov’s ‘The...

Reading like it's 1949: Two books from Israel's establishment are just as relevant today

by mgall74 | Dec 22, 2025 | Israeli News

Which books did Israelis read in the years after the War of Independence? Nearly eight decades later, literature that emerged during the birth of the country – like the two books below – remain shockingly relevant for a society navigating the current postwar era...

Two war poems on pilots: From WWII to the Gaza War

by mgall74 | Dec 21, 2025 | Israeli News

Four P-51 Mustangs flying in formation. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. Credit: Toni Frisell / Library of CongressContemporary Israeli poet Eli Eliahu’s ‘PILOTS,’ written in 2025, and the late renowned American poet Howard Nemerov’s ‘The...

'We're all very engaged with the cultural boycott of Israel and not with the question of why there is a boycott'

by mgall74 | Dec 10, 2025 | Israeli News

A few years ago, a young Palestinian construction worker was doing renovations in author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s Tel Aviv home, including when Gundar-Goshen was nursing her then-infant son. It put her on edge that a strange man with a hammer was moving around the...

The Hebrew language is thriving. Israel, not so much

by mgall74 | Nov 29, 2025 | Israeli News

When the language is hijacked for political ends, the Israeli establishment becomes a crushing weight on Hebrew writers. A response to Oded Carmeli Source link