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Joshua Davidovich
Joshua Davidovich
Participants in a mass rally gather in Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang on September 23, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / KIM WON-JIN)
September 24, 2017, 1:30 pm
Nukes of hazard
The press tries to answer whether North Korea and Iran are two separate threats or one big ball of Trumphurt -- and which is a bigger concern? The Nazis, of course
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 72nd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York September 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD)
September 20, 2017, 9:59 am
Speech impediment
Netanyahu and Trump's speeches at the UN may have been fine, but with pundits trying to figure out who the intended audience was, it's not clear what message got across
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press alongside US President Donald Trump (not pictured) prior to their meeting at the Palace Hotel in New York City ahead of the United Nations General Assembly on September 18, 2017.(AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
September 19, 2017, 3:23 pm
Iran on the brain
Netanyahu's obsession with ending the nuke deal pays some dividends in the headline department, but pundits say Trump's disinterest shows it's a bad play
By Joshua Davidovich
US President Donald Trump (L) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after delivering press statements prior to an official dinner in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)
September 18, 2017, 2:10 pm
Fam fatale
If the US and Israel are 'mishpucha,' as one official says, then police violence and scheming to scuttle the Iran deal make them seem more Sopranos than Brady Bunch
By Joshua Davidovich
Iranian men burn Israeli and American flags during a demonstration against the execution of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi authorities, on January 3, 2016, outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
September 17, 2017, 2:35 pm
Talking about Iran, for a change
With Netanyahu and Trump set for a get-together, papers look to who won't be in the room but will be at the center of their talks
By Joshua Davidovich
A general view of the Supreme Court during a ceremony for outgoing Deputy Supreme Court President Elyakim Rubinstein on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 15, 2017, 1:17 pm
Who turns over the overturners?
As a new Jewish Home bill says the High Court's power to overturn laws -- which had been in overdrive -- is over, local papers turn in their own takes
By Joshua Davidovich
Israeli soldiers take a shower at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 14, 2017, 3:24 pm
People of the boot
Papers' focus on a minor military reform shows how much of a people's army the IDF is, while Shas's focus on homophobia show what it takes to get kicked out
By Joshua Davidovich
Israeli soldiers guard at a bus stop in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on October 19, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 13, 2017, 9:39 am
Burden of dreams
Ruling forcing young ultra-Orthodox men into army is just the start of the story, though papers are already rife with fantasies of draft equality -- or judges put in their place
By Joshua Davidovich
Kurdish protesters demonstrate with placards reading "No to dictatorship" and the portrait of the leader of the Kurdistan PKK Workers' Party, Abdullah Ocalan in the city center of Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on March 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/dpa/Boris Roessler)
September 13, 2017, 12:54 am
Rebuffing former top general, Netanyahu says Kurdish PKK a terror group
PM chides Turkey for not recognizing Hamas as a terror group in kind, expresses support for Kurdish independence
By Joshua Davidovich and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son Yair visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on March 18, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 11, 2017, 2:21 pm
Hurricane Yair
Irmageddon and Grand Wizard Yair Netanyahu whip around the media landscape, blowing fear, anger and pointing fingers every which way
By Joshua Davidovich
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the lobby for encouraging Bible Study, at the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, January 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 10, 2017, 2:45 pm
Lightly roasted Netanyahu whets appetite of a hungry press
The PM's wife facing justice over misused state funds has the media's attention, but some say the charges are undercooked, and one paper sees only crumbs
By Joshua Davidovich
A young girl bowling in Jerusalem on Saturday 12. 2006. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 8, 2017, 4:05 pm
Strikes and gutters
Sometimes you strike Assad, and send a message to the Russian bear, and sometimes the bear-sized meals you ordered eat you. The Hebrew press has both on Friday
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Ministers Office in Jerusalem, September 3, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
September 6, 2017, 4:47 pm
Netanyahu’s black magical thinking
News that Hollywood Mogul Arnon Milchan is being probed for bribing the prime minister could make a bad year even worse, if Netanyahu weren't so darn innocent
By Joshua Davidovich
Eliezer Zandberg, right, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem in 2013. GPO)
September 5, 2017, 3:33 pm
20,000 suspects under the sea
The latest submarine scandal depth charge puts the focus on a minister other than Netanyahu, and Hezbollah tensions resurface
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on September 3, 2017 (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
September 4, 2017, 1:06 pm
A treble of trouble
It's hard to see how Monday's papers could be any worse for Netanyahu, whose legal and ethical troubles seem to be multiplying daily. If only he had an editor's phone number
By Joshua Davidovich
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