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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

Necessary Stories

Illustration by Avi Katz
October 26, 2020, 5:41 am
The Azedarach Tree
What a father sees from his window in the dark of an October night triggers painful memories, in Haim Watzman’s new Necessary Story
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
September 17, 2020, 12:05 pm
Thirst
In this Necessary Story for Rosh Hashanah, Haim Watzman tells of a father who seeks out the son he sent away, with his mother, many years before
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
August 22, 2020, 3:50 pm
We’ll always have Paris Square
When you’re demonstrating against Bibi, you can’t hurry love, you just have to wait, according to Haim Watzman’s new Necessary Story
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
July 19, 2020, 5:05 am
Coronavirus hike, with Ninja Turtle
Two boys take a hike with their father in an unexpected direction in Haim Watzman’s Necessary Story for this month
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
June 27, 2020, 11:04 am
A detour to Mars from the Jordan Valley
In this month’s Necessary Story, Haim Watzman tells of a family in crisis after its first-grader skips school for a space trip
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
May 28, 2020, 9:45 am
Tikun
A Necessary Story for Shavuot: A Shas door-to-door emissary explains the holiday to a non-religious woman — and tells her own story in the process
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
April 5, 2020, 3:47 am
Doors
Being alone and being together — a Necessary Story for Passover in the time of the coronavirus
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
March 10, 2020, 10:10 am
Masks
Haim Watzman offers a Necessary Story for this Purim season, about men and masks
By Haim Watzman
Illustration (above and top) by Avi Katz
February 9, 2020, 5:36 am
On the Fast Train
In Haim Watzman’s new Necessary Story, a woman finds friendship, but not her own, on the fast train to Jerusalem
By Haim Watzman
Illustration (above and top) by Avi Katz
January 20, 2020, 4:08 am
Heavens
Haim Watzman’s new Necessary Story ponders love, heartbreak and the night sky as a team of IDF reserve soldiers deals with a romantic crisis in the West Bank
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
December 12, 2019, 11:03 am
A prayer for Bibi
This month, Haim Watzman offers a Necessary Story about words and devotion and rules and strangers
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
November 16, 2019, 9:08 am
How long, my Lord?
Haim Watzman offers a prophetic Necessary Story. Except that the prophet is a cat
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
October 21, 2019, 9:03 am
The next to the last time I read Etgar Keret
In his new Necessary Story, Haim Watzman ponders father-son relations while channeling Neil Young and Israel’s second-best writer of short fiction
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
September 14, 2019, 5:59 am
Turning the pages
My kids don’t listen to me, my life’s total chaos, who will I vote for, and what is this music? A pre-election Necessary Story
By Haim Watzman
Illustration by Avi Katz
August 23, 2019, 3:54 am
Meeting on a rock
In this month’s Necessary Story, two estranged friends discover that they betrayed each other one night decades ago
By Haim Watzman
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