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For an Israeli audience, the BBC’s Gaza obsession doesn’t feel like a media anomaly anymore. It feels like a ritual, repeated so often that it has become background noise. But when you attach numbers to that feeling, the hypocrisy stops being abstract and becomes measurable. In the nine months following October 7, BBC News published more than 7,500 Gaza-related items across its … [Read more...] about BBC, Gaza, and the Selective Morality Israelis Know Too Well

At first glance the strengthening of the Israeli shekel against the US dollar looks almost offensive to common sense. Two years of war, a swollen budget deficit, visible poverty, mounting transfers to the ultra-Orthodox sector, and a political environment that scares off headlines if not always capital — and yet the currency firms up. It feels like double accounting, like … [Read more...] about The Strong Shekel Paradox: Why Israel’s Currency Rises While the Country Is Under Strain

Watching yet another European government step forward to “boycott” Eurovision 2026 feels like listening to a badly tuned violin: all noise, no music, and the intent painfully off-key. Iceland now folds itself into the little procession of Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, and the Netherlands, and the whole thing has slipped past any pretense of moral positioning. It’s not principled … [Read more...] about Europe’s Boycott Theatre: When Antisemitism, Populism, and Petrodollar Posturing Masquerade as Principle

Something in the tone of recent political statements feels like watching a crack spread across a windowpane — slow, deliberate, and pretending not to be the product of force. The government keeps insisting that nothing fundamental is changing, yet every move telegraphs the opposite. The draft-exemption bill now advancing under coalition pressure isn’t some minor tweak to … [Read more...] about Netanyahu Government Engineers a Quiet Collapse of the Social Contract

Latet’s latest Alternative Poverty Report opens with a stark headline number: a 10% spike in Israel’s cost of living in just one year. The findings go further, painting a bleak picture where 22.3% of families and 28.7% of the population fall into multidimensional poverty, and where severe food insecurity affects roughly one in ten households. A typical middle-class lifestyle … [Read more...] about The Vanishing Middle: How a Government Chose One Community Over an Entire Country

Frank Gehry’s passing sends out a kind of hush before the tributes begin — the sort of silence that follows the fall of a giant whose influence was always slightly larger than the places he built in. And here in Israel, the news lands with a surprisingly intimate resonance. Gehry, born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, never foregrounded his Jewish identity as public narrative, yet it … [Read more...] about Frank Gehry’s Legacy Touches Israel More Quietly Than People Realize

The sudden moral awakening of the Netherlands, Spain, Slovenia, and Ireland over Israel’s participation in Eurovision lands with the subtlety of a dropped cymbal — loud, jarring, and strangely performative. These governments are hardly strangers to practical diplomacy; they trade with far harsher regimes, overlook crises when it benefits them, and rarely bat an eyelid at global … [Read more...] about Eurovision Boycotts: The Curious Politics Behind the Outrage

Watching easyJet tiptoe back into Israel with all the enthusiasm of a cat approaching a bathtub would almost be amusing if the price list didn’t look like satire. The airline is marketing itself as a low-cost carrier, yet the fares they’ve posted for spring 2026 read more like the premium column of a full-service European airline that at least pretends to offer comfort. It’s … [Read more...] about Why Fly “Low-Cost” When It’s No Longer Low-Cost? The easyJet Farce

The announcement arrived with a certain sense of inevitability, almost like watching a long-established specialist finally receive the scale of recognition that matches its track record. IDE Technologies, the Israeli desalination powerhouse with decades of engineering under its belt, has just won a landmark EPC contract from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to build a … [Read more...] about Israeli Water Technology Wins in India: IDE Secures Major Mumbai Desalination Project

Axon Vision (TASE: AXN), the Israeli defense-AI company that’s been steadily carving out a reputation for operational-grade autonomy, just locked in a major strategic cooperation agreement with Leonardo DRS. The move feels like one of those quiet but consequential shifts in the U.S. defense ecosystem, especially with Counter-UAS becoming the defining threat vector of the … [Read more...] about Axon Vision–Leonardo DRS Strategic Cooperation Deepens AI-Driven Defense Capabilities

Something about this announcement feels like one of those turning-point moments in a travel market that’s been stuck in slow motion. Wizz Air’s chief executive, József Váradi, confirmed that the airline plans to open a full operational hub in Israel by around April — not just more flights, but a proper base with aircraft, crews, and a long-term commitment. After meeting … [Read more...] about Wizz Air Sets Its Sights on Israel

Funny how the idea of equality before the law feels solid and permanent until the moment someone powerful decides it isn’t convenient anymore. The headline dropped—Netanyahu announces a pardon request—and for a second it almost felt surreal, like a political plot twist from a show that forgot to tie up its loose moral logic. But no, it’s real life, and real life doesn’t mind … [Read more...] about Equality, Optional