The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/mitch-ginsburg/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:51:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Mitch Ginsburg | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/mitch-ginsburg/ 32 32 Podcaster Mitch Ginsburg: Escape from Tehran, an untold 1979 Israeli caper https://www.timesofisrael.com/podcaster-mitch-ginsburg-escape-from-tehran-an-untold-1979-israeli-caper/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:28:41 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3734021&preview=true&preview_id=3734021 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

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]]> Zvi Zamir, the man who sounded the alarm in 1973, is dead at 98 https://www.timesofisrael.com/zvi-zamir-the-man-who-sounded-the-alarm-in-1973-is-dead-at-98/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 07:07:00 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1659663 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

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]]> A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli literary giant and ardent humanist, dies aged 85 https://www.timesofisrael.com/great-israeli-novelist-a-b-yehoshua-dies-aged-85/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:43:55 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2764246 Influential author, recipient of the Israel Prize and dozens of other awards, was also known as a sharp-tongued polemicist and staunch Zionist

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]]> Locked down? Open up to… 3 exceptional contemporary Israeli poets https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-down-open-up-to-exceptional-contemporary-israeli-poets/ Mon, 11 May 2020 13:17:16 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2298480 Two new collections have been released in recent months, and one slightly older poem serves as an anthem for these times

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]]> Locked down? Open up to… ‘Shtisel’ creator Yehonatan Indursky https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-down-open-up-to-shtisel-creator-yehonatan-indursky/ Fri, 01 May 2020 13:24:46 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2290529 The recent spotlight shining on the ultra-Orthodox world offers a good excuse to hole up with some hareidi television, movies, and documentaries

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]]> Locked down? Open up to… Meir Shalev https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-down-open-up-to-meir-shalev/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:37:20 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2277699 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

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]]> In forgotten article after Six Day War, Amos Oz warned of ‘eternal annexation’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-forgotten-article-after-six-day-war-amos-oz-warned-of-eternal-annexation/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:45:21 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1989910 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'

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]]> Divorced and battling illness, rabbi’s daughter finds her lifeline in the Talmud https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-overcoming-struggle-talmud-became-the-soundtrack-for-this-writers-life/ Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:27:39 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1687610 Ilana Kurshan's Talmudic commentary/memoir is a striking account of a contemporary life lived alongside an ancient text

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]]> A back-dated deal with a toppled French PM: How Peres secured Israel’s nuclear deterrent https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-back-dated-deal-with-a-toppled-french-pm-how-peres-secured-israels-nuclear-deterrent/ Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:17:24 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1471743 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

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]]> Farewell to Moshe Ya’alon, the man who kept Israel out of the war in Syria https://www.timesofisrael.com/farewell-to-moshe-yaalon-the-man-who-kept-israel-out-of-the-war-in-syria/ Sun, 22 May 2016 12:23:32 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1396319 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?

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]]> From Lebanon, a sparkling, contemplative war memoir on the dimming of a generation’s hope https://www.timesofisrael.com/from-lebanon-a-sparkling-contemplative-war-memoir-on-the-dimming-of-a-generations-hope/ Sun, 08 May 2016 12:15:39 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1387166 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

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]]> When Moshe Dayan delivered the defining speech of Zionism https://www.timesofisrael.com/when-moshe-dayan-delivered-the-defining-speech-of-zionism/ Thu, 28 Apr 2016 06:51:53 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1380903 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

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]]> A bullet in the IDF’s rules of engagement https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-bullet-in-the-idfs-rules-of-engagement/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 12:10:02 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1365830 The Hebron shooting reflects the aims of far right Israelis who seek to imbue the army with a biblical ethos

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]]> New English collection opens the doors to Yehuda Amichai’s unforgettable poetry https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-english-collection-opens-the-doors-to-yehuda-amichais-unforgettable-poetry/ Thu, 21 Jan 2016 02:38:57 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1324889 Israel's greatest modern poet is revealed in all his diversity, sensuality and universality

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]]> Murder as a tool for redemption https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/murder-as-a-tool-for-redemption/ Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:47:50 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1314649 The newly indicted suspected Jewish terrorists claim to be executors of vigilante justice; the truth is more outrageous

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