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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Amanda Borschel-Dan is The Times of Israel's Jewish World and Archaeology editor.
Rachel Gur, director of public policy at Lobby 99, the public lobby. (Courtesy)
June 2, 2023, 6:39 am
What Matters Now to lobbyist Rachel Gur: Why Israel is so #₪@$! expensive
Monopoly isn’t just a board game for Lobby 99’s director of public policy. This week, we hear how a mere handful of powerful companies control prices in almost every sector
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prof. Yair Zakovitch in his Hebrew University of Jerusalem office, May 23, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
May 25, 2023, 6:21 am
What Matters Now to Yair Zakovitch: Using ‘Ruth’ as a blueprint for creative halacha
Israel Prize-winning Bible scholar dives into Shavuot scroll’s meaning, laments lack of biblical literacy in secular society, but sees hope in anti-judicial overhaul demonstrations
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dr. Sara Hirschhorn at Jerusalem's Nomi Studios, May 16, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
May 19, 2023, 9:34 am
What Matters Now to historian Sara Hirschhorn: Extremism is now mainstream
For an American scholar of Israel’s ultranationalistic movements, a research trip that coincides with the Jerusalem flashpoint Flag March couldn’t have been better timed
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The 2,000-year-old inscription bearing the financial record discovered near ancient Jerusalem's Pilgrimage Path. (Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
May 17, 2023, 11:56 am
2,000-year-old ledger found in City of David points to widespread 2nd Temple literacy
Discovered near Pilgrimage Path, inscribed chalkstone slab that appears to be ossuary maker’s accounting record adds to physical evidence of ancient Jerusalem shuk in lower city
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
An Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist checks out pieces of 1,800-year-old marble from a shipwreck off the shore of Beit Yanai in central Israel. (Israel Antiquities Authority's Theft Prevention Unit)
May 15, 2023, 11:43 am
Swimmer discovers precious marble cargo from 1,800-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck
Roman-era raw materials likely came from Turkey and were on their way to a southern Holy Land port; archaeologists hope to find wood remains of ship during excavations next week
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
TOI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur. (Courtesy)
May 12, 2023, 6:51 am
What Matters Now to ToI analyst Haviv Rettig Gur: The political perils of conflict
After the Gaza conflict ends, PM Netanyahu faces another battle — to pass the budget. Once he does, we will learn his true stance on the judicial overhaul
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren at an event celebrating ToI's 10th anniversary, May 1, 2022. (Ariel Jerozolimski)
May 5, 2023, 7:12 am
What Matters Now to veteran journalist Biranit Goren: Media-made parallel universes
Editor of ToI’s Hebrew-language sister site Zman Yisrael says all of PM Netanyahu’s court cases stem from a desire to control Israel’s media. Now he has Ch. 14, his own ‘Fox News’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
McGill University History Prof. Gil Troy in The Times of Israel's offices, April 25, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)
April 28, 2023, 6:03 am
What Matters Now to Prof. Gil Troy: ‘Identity Zionism’ to cure Diaspora’s ‘unJews’
Historian-author expounds on the Zionist trinity of Jewish peoplehood, Land of Israel and modern state, and how young Diaspora Jews can use it as a vehicle of self-actualization
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Former Justice Ministry director-general Emi Palmor is now a member of the select Meta Oversight Board and head of the nonprofit PTSD organization Natal. (courtesy)
April 21, 2023, 9:01 am
What Matters Now to past Justice head Emi Palmor: A stronger post-crisis Israel
A lecturer on government policy serving on Meta’s ‘Supreme Court,’ the 24-year Justice Ministry insider explains what needs to be fixed – but the cure isn’t the judicial overhaul
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem. (Alex Kolomoisky)
April 14, 2023, 7:20 am
What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: Warsaw Ghetto Jews were divided, too
Performing a delicate balancing act, former politician polices world leaders’ rhetoric, protects against historical distortion and plans to open a new education center in Germany
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Ariel University's Dr. Yonatan Adler. (courtesy)
April 5, 2023, 7:39 am
What Matters Now to archaeologist Prof. Yonatan Adler: The origins of Judaism
Ariel University prof discusses his ‘excavation’ into the evidence for the practice of the Jewish religion – and points to when we know with certainty that Passover was observed
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The seven-letter 10th-century BCE inscription in Ancient South Arabian script on a pithos from the Ophel. (photo: Daniel Vainstub; all rights reserved © Dr. Eilat Mazar; after Mazar 2015)
April 3, 2023, 4:02 pm
Newly deciphered inscription gives clue to biblical Queen of Sheba’s Jerusalem visit
Discovered at the Ophel adjacent to the Temple Mount, seven letters on clay jar sherd are written in dialect and script stemming from the Arabian Peninsula, epigrapher suggests
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Former Canadian justice minister and human rights advocate Irwin Cotler, Jerusalem, 2023. (Jeremy Sharon/ToI)
March 31, 2023, 7:43 am
What Matters Now to top Canadian jurist Irwin Cotler: Drafting Israel’s constitution
As representatives of Knesset factions sit with President Herzog for negotiations over the judicial overhaul package, Canada’s former Justice Minister urges: Seize the momentum
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Physicist Dr. Shikma Bressler, co-founder of the Black Flag protest movement. (Eldad Rafaeli, Photoactive)
March 24, 2023, 6:17 am
What Matters Now to arrested activist/physicist Shikma Bressler: ‘Saving Israel’
The nation watched Thursday as the world-renowned scientist, a leader in the anti-judicial overhaul protest movement, was dragged to a police car. Hear why she is still optimistic
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
File: Lawyers Rabbi Uri Regev (far right) and Edna Meyrav with their client from Elad at a Supreme Court hearing in 2014. (Courtesy: Hiddush)
March 17, 2023, 8:48 am
What Matters Now to religion and state activist Uri Regev: Averting a theocracy
The Israeli lawyer/Reform rabbi explains how the judicial overhaul package may affect religious freedom – and the lack thereof – in the Holy Land
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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