Spies Like Them By Daniella Greenbaum Davis Isaac Shoshan was born in Aleppo in the early 1920s. The son of a janitor, he grew up poor, living in a small space with several other families, eating mostly flatbreads cooked with the help of cow dung. His mother...
I'll be heading out soon to the U.S. and Canada to promote Spies of No Country. Here are the upcoming events open to the public. I'd be happy to see you there! Fri. March 1, Phoenix, AZ. Brandeis Book and Author Event 2019, Westin Kierland Resort...
JERUSALEM — If you are reading this, you’ve most likely seen much about “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” in the pages of this newspaper and of every other important newspaper in the West. That phrase contains a few important assumptions. That the conflict is between two actors,...
Spies of No Country comes out today in France, published by Editions Liana Levi, and translated by Anne Rabinovitch. Pictured on the cover is the great Yakuba Cohen, one of the four spies at the center of the story...
Yad Vashem is both a memorial of a genocide, and a tool of Israeli realpolitik. By Matti Friedman, New York Times Op-Ed Section JERUSALEM — The quiet campus of Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial and museum, sits atop a wooded hill on the outskirts of Jerusalem, removed...
It takes four times as long as the new high-speed rail. I take it anyway. JERUSALEM — Last month, the first section of a new high-speed rail line opened in Israel. When it’s fully operational a few months from now, passengers will board fire-engine-red carriages in...
Ramadan Dabash doesn’t care if you call him a collaborator. JERUSALEM — Western observers interested in Jerusalem can be forgiven for thinking the most politically significant building in this city is a low limestone edifice featuring American flags and Marines — the embassy opened in May...
Published Dec. 15, 2017 The Ties That Bind Jerusalem Different religions have their own holy sites in Jerusalem, the city where I've spent my entire adult life. The place I believe to be among the most important, however, is a grubby swath of garages, welding shops and...