Haaretz’s restaurant reviewer, Saggie Cohen, sum up the last Jewish year (5782). The topic itself is of little interest to people abroad. But even committed BDSers (or lovers from afar) may find his socio-political observation of some interest in understanding the places. So here is a translation of his introduction (Translated by Sol Salbe): — The outgoing year was the year when it finally became clear that restaurant business is hard work: we left it to the Arabs. Almost all the significant restaurants that opened in the second part of the year, after the festive openings of the restaurants that were delayed due to the…

So you think the Israeli reality show reached the bottom of the typecasting pit? Rivka from Come Dine with Me, a mix of settler and New Ager, is a reminder that we can always stoop lower. — By Nissan Shor • (Translation: Ali Nissenbaum and Sol Salbe)* Rivka, the settler on the new season of Come Dine with Me, is the embodiment of the Israeli nightmare. The rot and its consequences. A crooked combination of all that’s wrong with the traditional and with the modern. She is…

By Tamir Sorek (US-based Israeli author, professor) It turns out that the “Parliament of Strengtheners” [הפרלמנט של מחזקים] [a reputedly progressive group] blocked me due to my opinion regarding the resonance of Nazi concepts in [Labour Leader] Merav Michaeli’s rhetoric. In short, there are those who think that comparisons should…

The ultra-orthodox journalist Frey praised the heroism of Muhammad Minawi in a tweet for intending to harm only soldiers despite “the oppression, crushing and killing of his people”. The channel: We disavow the statement, he will be summoned for clarification — The following article was published in Haaretz (Hebrew edition, 12 September 2022) under the headline: “Journalist Israel Frey was suspended from the Democrat TV channel due to praising the terrorist caught in Jaffa”

By Orly Noy (Translated by Sol Salbe) The Israeli army exterminates Palestinians on an almost daily basis. The number of non-combatant Palestinians who are shot to death by the army is dizzying, the Israeli public hardly ever hears about them, and only the human rights organisations continue to document and…

NOTE: Most Hebrew Haaretz regular columnists get translated and published in the English edition, week in week out. But the paper has chosen to make an exception and not publish an English version of this important article by Odeh Bisharat. Its importance is also being a Palestinian voice regarding the recent Holocaust comment by Abbas, which was covered extensively from one side in the Israeli media.

By Haggai Matar (Translated by Sol Salbe) What are we talking about when we talk about apartheid? Four stories from the past 24 hours: When an Arab journalist [An Israeli citizen] is murdered, and all the Minister of Communications can say for himself is that this violence proves that the…

By Orly Noy (Translated by Sol Salbe) Having seen the Benjamin Regional Council [on the West Bank] posting its “Warm congratulations to the next Chief of Staff of the IDF, Major General Herzi Levy, a resident of Kfar Oranim in the Benjamin district”, I got intrigued and did some reading…

This is a display of a belligerent Occupation by the Lords of the Land, which uses force to completely negate the Palestinians’ right to their land. ■ Occupiers do not leave of their own free will. They leave when they suffer. When their blood is drawn. They leave following a violent struggle that hurts them too much. Do you want to be Occupiers? This is what an Occupation looks like. — By Rogel Alpher • (Translated from Hebrew by Sol Salbe)