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El Al plane
travel season

An Interesting Existential Paradox: Flight Attendants Are Both Servant and Tyrant

Part servant, part commander, the flight attendant embodies the strange tension between care, authority, procedure, and power.

Yair Kleinbaum 03:25
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel Katz, Haim Katz, Sa'ar

Analysis

Netanyahu Shields Ashkenazi Allies in Likud

analysisGila Isaacson, Kikar Hashabbat
Hamad al Thani

MIDDLE EAST

Qatar's Universities Strategy: Ideological Warfare Weakens American Power

analysisYair Kleinbaum
El-Sayed

Rhetoric over argument

Constitutional Debate, Not Historical Atrocity: El-Sayed's Sharia Law Comparison Fails Miserably

analysisBianca Jones
Sunni alliance

emerging Middle East

Sunni States and the Israel Paradox

analysisGila Isaacson, Kikar Hashabbat1
President Trump, Bin Salman

New world order

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan Are Signaling the Region No Longer Needs U.S. Guarantees

analysisYair Kleinbaum
President Trump

Chaos in the Situation Room

Trump's Approval Declines as U.S.-Iran Standoff Drains Support; Israel Navigates Unpredictability

analysisGila Isaacson, Kikar Hashabbat
Abdul Ey Sayyed

No turning back

Michigan’s Anti-Jewish Rubicon

analysisYair Kleinbaum
Mojtaba Khamenei

Iran's Calculated Pressure Campaign

Iran's Escalation Strategy is Succeeding Where Military Confrontation Failed, Experts Say

analysisGila Isaacson, Kikar Hashabbat1
Netanyahu talks to Haredi MKs in the Knesset

The Conscription Standoff

Strategic Separation: Netanyahu Is Distancing From Haredim, But Not Divorcing Them

analysisGila Isaacson
Saudi Arabian air force officers

Restraint Ends

Why Saudi Arabia Abandoned Its Restraint Against Iran

analysisGila Isaacson, Kikar Hashabbat
IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip

DEAL OR NO DEAL

Has Israel Forgotten About the Gaza Threat?

opinionsAriel Sharfer
President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Netanyahu-Trump Meeting Sidesteps Substantive Commitments on Regional Crises

opinionsAriel Sharfer
Jeffery Epstein

partisan accountability games

Jeffrey Epstein's Crimes Were Real. So Was the Cynicism

analysisYair Kleinbaum

The modern man

The New Masculinity of The Modern Man

analysisYair Kleinbaum

Modern Judaism

Two Ways to Be a Jew in Public

analysisYair Kleinbaum 1
April 7, 2025: United States President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House in Washington DC.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

Netanyahu’s Ultimate Battle: Persuading Trump That Iran's Deal Demands Absolute Surrender

opinionsAriel Sharfer3
Bezalel Smotrich

POST PRIMARIS ANALYSIS

Religious Zionism Primary Results Highlight Broader Crisis of Representation

analysisAriel Sharfer

The Serpent's Skin

Jewish self-hatred unraveling

analysisYair Kleinbaum 1
Mojtaba Khamenei, President Trump

The Return of "TACO Trump"

Promised But Failed to Deliver Again: Trump’s Greatest Enemy Is Himself

opinionsAriel Sharfer3