Twittering from the front-lines
Who remembers the Google Wars website that was doing the viral rounds a few years back – a mildly amusing, non-scientific snapshot of the search-driven, internet world we live in? It lives on at...
View ArticleCan Israel do a power-share?
A predawn victory party for Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni had all the trappings of a fairytale, including a ballroom setting in a Tel Aviv hotel. The woman who had edged ahead of rival Benjamin...
View ArticleTeam of rivals for Israel?
Coalition-building in the aftermath of Israel’s inconclusive Feb. 10 election kicks into high gear on Wednesday, when the final results become official and President Shimon Peres begins sounding...
View ArticleYou’ve set my mind at ease
Israel’s political picture has been so unclear and complicated since an indecisive Feb. 10 election that President Shimon Peres said he asked right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu to put it down on...
View ArticleHeaven or Hell
To be in the right place at the right moment – this is every photojournalist’s dream. To be on the scene to record the “decisive moment” with your camera. Most photojournalists around the world...
View ArticleForeign Affairs
Israeli newspapers are abuzz this morning as they mull over the possibility that ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman could be appointed foreign minister in the government that Benjamin Netanyahu is...
View ArticleTop job in the new government? No thanks!
By Tova Cohen Though it’s considered one of the top three cabinet posts in Israel’s government, in these troubled times there seems to be no takers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party for the job of...
View ArticleSend in the drones
Israel’s economy is, in large part, mirroring what is happening elsewhere in the world – with job losses, factory closures and all the other symptoms of the global financial meltdown. One sector...
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