On the Ground in Miami
This week, Nathan Guttman reports from Miami, where families and friends are still hoping to find their loved one’s alive under the rubble.
‘If the Government Can Survive One Week, It’ll Survive a Month’: An Interview with Michael Oren
In a Moment Zoominar on Tuesday, historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, who also served as a member of Israel’s...
The Belly of the Beast with Ilene Prusher
Ilene Prusher is an award-winning journalist and novelist who covered Israel from the ground for 15 years for The Christian Science Monitor, Time, Haaretz, Moment...
What to Watch For as Nuclear Talks With Iran Resume
Nuclear talks with Iran are resuming. Absent from the table will be the United States, which dropped out of the nuclear deal in 2018.
Parting Words from President Reuven Rivlin
Reuven Rivlin was elected President of Israel by the Knesset in June 2014. He will complete his seven year term in July 2021. As the...
Moment Contributors Weigh In on Israeli Election
Following Israeli election returns is not for the faint of heart. With four elections (so far) in less than two years, more than a dozen...
Opinion | A Daycare Tragedy Opens My Eyes
Sometimes a single truth, belatedly discovered, can change one’s world view with surprising swiftness.
Opinion | Will Israelis Embrace Biden?
Five days after the U.S. elections, my husband and I enjoyed a rare Pilates class between lockdowns.
Opinion | Picking Their Poison
In every Israeli election since 2015—we’ve had four now, and in 2021 are headed toward a fifth—the average Israeli voter has one main thing in mind when he or she decides whom to vote for: Do I want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to keep his job?
On Peace, Normalization and Politics
The latest news came late last week. Morocco has joined the growing list of Arab countries upgrading their relations with Israel. This list now includes the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
Trump’s Parting Gifts
Despite a failed reelection campaign, Donald Trump and his team registered several notable gains this election season. Trump slightly increased the share of Black and Hispanic Americans voting for him, alongside an impressive turnout from a small but well-organized subgroup: Orthodox Jews. According to polls and estimates, more than 80 percent of Orthodox Jews cast their vote for Trump, making them one of his most approving constituencies in the nation.
Twenty Five Years After Yitzchak Rabin’s Assassination, Israel Remains Divided
“The incitement and rhetoric did not come from all sides. In Israel, incitement reads from right to left.”