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Mitch Ginsburg

Mitch Ginsburg

Mitch Ginsburg is the former Times of Israel military correspondent.
In this December 10, 1978, file picture, demonstrators hold up a poster of exiled Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini during an anti-shah demonstration in Tehran at the Shayah monument, which was built to commemorate the monarch's rule and was a symbol of his power. (AP/Michel Lipchitz)
January 15, 2026, 4:28 pm
Podcaster Mitch Ginsburg: Escape from Tehran, an untold 1979 Israeli caper
On February 20, 1979, the last 33 Israeli officials left in Iran miraculously come back to the Jewish state. Their families had been told they were unlikely to return alive
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Mitch Ginsburg
Zvi Zamir speaks at a memorial service marking 21 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on November 4, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2024, 9:07 am
Zvi Zamir, the man who sounded the alarm in 1973, is dead at 98
As Mossad chief, Zamir spearheaded the post-Munich campaign against Palestinian terror in Europe and warned, at the midnight hour, that the Yom Kippur War was breaking out
By Mitch Ginsburg
Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua. (Courtesy/ Rafaela Fahn Schoffman)
June 14, 2022, 9:43 am
A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli literary giant and ardent humanist, dies aged 85
Influential author, recipient of the Israel Prize and dozens of other awards, was also known as a sharp-tongued polemicist and staunch Zionist
By Mitch Ginsburg
From left: Israeli poets Yonatan Berg, Shimon Adaf, and Hagit Grossman. (Micol Levi Yaron, Courtesy Wesleyan University Press; Ronen Lalena; Dina Gona)
May 11, 2020, 4:17 pm
Locked down? Open up to… 3 exceptional contemporary Israeli poets
Two new collections have been released in recent months, and one slightly older poem serves as an anthem for these times
By Mitch Ginsburg
'Shtisel' has a certain voyeuristic appeal to some Jewish viewers. (Netflix/Dori Media/via JTA)
May 1, 2020, 4:24 pm
Locked down? Open up to… ‘Shtisel’ creator Yehonatan Indursky
The recent spotlight shining on the ultra-Orthodox world offers a good excuse to hole up with some hareidi television, movies, and documentaries
By Mitch Ginsburg
'Rock star' writer Meir Shalev at 2012 International Writer's Festival in Jerusalem (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
April 7, 2020, 1:37 pm
Locked down? Open up to… Meir Shalev
In the first in a series of articles aimed to widen cultural horizons within our virus-narrowed constraints, Mitch Ginsburg extols Meir Shalev’s new memoir as a breath of fresh air
By Mitch Ginsburg
Amos Oz reading from one of his books in 2011. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 31, 2018, 11:45 pm
In forgotten article after Six Day War, Amos Oz warned of ‘eternal annexation’
Recently returned from the battlefield, the writer, then 28, penned a bitter denunciation of Moshe Dayan’s settlement policies: ‘The shorter the occupation, the better for us’
By Mitch Ginsburg
Ilana Kurshan and jacket cover of her book, 'If All the Seas Were Ink.' (Debbi Cooper/Courtesy Ilana Kurshan)
September 5, 2017, 3:27 pm
Divorced and battling illness, rabbi’s daughter finds her lifeline in the Talmud
Ilana Kurshan’s Talmudic commentary/memoir is a striking account of a contemporary life lived alongside an ancient text
By Mitch Ginsburg
Shimon Peres and David Ben-Gurion visit Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona (Defense Ministry Archives)
September 29, 2016, 12:17 pm
A back-dated deal with a toppled French PM: How Peres secured Israel’s nuclear deterrent
The tale of Paris’s consent to build a plutonium reactor for the Jewish state 60 years ago illustrates the indefatigable young Shimon Peres’s capacity for achieving the seemingly impossible
By Mitch Ginsburg
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on the Golan Heights, northern Israel, June 30, 2015, looking toward Syria. (Eden Moladavski/Ministry of Defense)
May 22, 2016, 3:23 pm
Farewell to Moshe Ya’alon, the man who kept Israel out of the war in Syria
The defense minister’s handling of the crisis to Israel’s north has been masterly; his policies on Gaza were less stellar. Will he become the first secular Jabotinsky-ite to resurrect a crushed political career?
By Mitch Ginsburg
Matti Friedman, pictured during his IDF service in the late 1990s (Courtesy Matti Friedman)
May 8, 2016, 3:15 pm
From Lebanon, a sparkling, contemplative war memoir on the dimming of a generation’s hope
In his new book ‘Pumpkinflowers,’ Matti Friedman — an Israeli soldier in Lebanon, then a tourist there, and now a Jerusalem father of 3 — shows that the men who tried to kill him in the late 1990s were the pioneers of a new type of conflict, now in hideous full bloom
By Mitch Ginsburg
Moshe Dayan eulogizes Roi Rotberg, Kibbutz Nahal Oz, April 1956 (IDF archives)
April 28, 2016, 9:51 am
When Moshe Dayan delivered the defining speech of Zionism
60 years ago, as he eulogized a ‘thin blond lad’ named Roi Rotberg killed by Palestinian gunmen on the Gaza border, the IDF chief of staff wasn’t aiming to set out the Zionist ethos for generations. But that’s what he did
By Mitch Ginsburg
Mitch Ginsburg
March 28, 2016, 3:10 pm
Mitch Ginsburg
A bullet in the IDF’s rules of engagement
The Hebron shooting reflects the aims of far right Israelis who seek to imbue the army with a biblical ethos
Yehuda Amichai in 1986. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
January 21, 2016, 4:38 am
New English collection opens the doors to Yehuda Amichai’s unforgettable poetry
Israel’s greatest modern poet is revealed in all his diversity, sensuality and universality
By Mitch Ginsburg
Mitch Ginsburg
January 4, 2016, 2:47 pm
Mitch Ginsburg
Murder as a tool for redemption
The newly indicted suspected Jewish terrorists claim to be executors of vigilante justice; the truth is more outrageous
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