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Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi

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Israel Day on Fifth parade in New York City, May 31, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
June 7, 2026, 8:23 pm
When the Israel Day Parade is more than a parade
Can American Jews define themselves through love of both Israel and America?
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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Yair Lapid (2nd left) and his wife Lihi, and Naftali Bennett and his wife Gilat at a press conference announcing the joint slate, “Together” ahead of upcoming elections, in Herzliya, central Israel, April 26, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90
May 3, 2026, 7:37 pm
Bennett 2026
Is former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett a right-wing ideologue or Israel’s great national healer?
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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People stand on the beach during Independence Day celebrations in Tel Aviv, April 22, 2026. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
April 22, 2026, 7:39 pm
Hope for Israel’s 78th Birthday
Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi mark Israel’s 78th Independence Day with a meditation on eulogies, blessings, and the distance between the two.
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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Bereaved families visit the graves of fallen soldier during Memorial Dayat Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on May 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 19, 2026, 7:18 pm
Israel’s 10 Days of Awe: From Yom HaShoah to Yom HaAtzmaut
How do we observe national days of mourning when the nightmares of the past feel like the realities of the present?
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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Israel's First Government, photographed on May 1, 1949. Left to right: Golda Meir, Zalman Shazar, Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, Zvi Maimon (cabinet stenographer), Dov Yosef, Eliezer Kaplan, Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Ze'ev Sherf (cabinet secretary), Pinchas Rosen, David Remez, Haim Moshe Shapira, Yitzhak Meir Levin, Yehuda Leib Maimon. (Hugo Mendelson/National Photo Collection of Israel/GPO/Wikipedia/Public domain)
April 12, 2026, 7:55 pm
The battle over the word ‘Zionism’
When a word carries history, burden, and identity all at once, can the Jewish people afford to let it go?
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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Israelis celebrate the Passover Seder in an underground central Israel parking lot used as a public shelter during the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, April 1, 2026. (Flash90)
April 5, 2026, 11:54 am
Passover under the shadow of war: the challenge of hope
How do you celebrate the holiday of liberation when the reality of war, grief, and political division feels heavier than ever?
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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This handout photograph taken and released by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 29, 2026 shows Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar (center R) speaking with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty (center L) during their meeting at the foreign ministry office in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Handout / Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs / AFP)
March 29, 2026, 8:50 pm
The Iran War: The End?
Is Israel destined to have its wars stopped by its closest ally just before the finish line? Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi discuss.
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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People take cover in a bomb shelter from incoming missiles fired from Iran in Tel Aviv, March 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 22, 2026, 6:59 pm
The impact of the Iran War on Israel and the Jewish people
What is the hidden cost of Israeli resilience? We go beyond strategic analysis to examine the war’s effects on daily life in Israel, and why polls haven’t budged despite a popular war.
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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Protesters and members of the Jewish Voice for Peace gather in support of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil outside the Federal Plaza, April 14, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
March 15, 2026, 7:15 pm
Israel: Winning the Iran war, losing American Jews?
If this war with Iran is self-evident to Israelis, why does it feel so different to North American Jews?
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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This handout image shows aircraft on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) that are operating in support of the war in Iran, March 3, 2026. (US Navy via AP)
March 8, 2026, 3:48 pm
The Case for War
Why do 93% of Israelis support a war that much of the West condemns as a violation of international law?
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, left, the air-defense destroyer HMS Defender and the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut transit the Strait of Hormuz with the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf, November 19, 2019. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Zachary Pearson/U.S. Navy via AP, File)
February 26, 2026, 6:17 pm
Waiting
How do you go about daily life when every two hours the news cycle shifts, every Israeli with a cousin in the Air Force has a take, and even analysts can’t say what comes next?
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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A Jewish boy throws water mixed with cement powder into a mixer in the Jewish Settlement of Adam, several kilometers from the West Bank city of Ramallah, as the Jewish residents symbolically resumed construction work on their settlement on September 1, 2010, in a defying move to protest the killing of four settlers by Palestinians near the West Bank town of Hebron the previous night. (MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
February 18, 2026, 6:39 pm
Israel’s Sovereignty Crisis
From ultra-Orthodox attacks on soldiers, to epidemic crime within and against Arab communities, to ministers contradicting national policy, Israel faces a sovereignty crisis from within
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara cast their votes during elections for the Likud Central Committee at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, November 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 8, 2026, 7:15 pm
Election Currents
Israel is headed toward elections again, but can either side form a stable government? We take a step back to examine the current political climate.
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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Jewish protesters and allies demonstrate against antisemitism outside the campus of Columbia University in New York City on March 4, 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
February 8, 2026, 5:05 pm
The Hidden Challenges of Antisemitism
Antisemitism is everywhere. But what are we missing? We zoom out to examine the assault on the Jewish story, and the cost-benefit calculus of Jews around their identity.
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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US President Donald Trump speaks during an event to promote investment in rural health care in the East Room of the White House, January 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
January 22, 2026, 8:46 pm
Trump’s World
What can Israel do when unpredictability becomes U.S. policy? And is unpredictability just his style, or is it a strategy that can have life-and-death consequences in the region?
By Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi
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