Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

There's this e-mail list I'm on, made up of gray-haired Israeli men who all served together in the Armored Corp in the 1970s, then s...

The New York Times has two very different but equally troubling stories. One is about Donald Trump and his relationships with women  ; the o...

Tarek Abu Hamed was appointed today to the position of Deputy Chief Scientist in the Ministry of Science . This is big news. Not gigantic, n...

Being a civil servant I'm not allowed publicly to express political opinions. But I don't see why that should stop me from explainin...

I had an interesting e-mail exchange the other day with a fellow, on the topic of Jewish politically-motivated murderers and other chauvini...

Two and a half years ago I mostly shut down this blog, except for the occasional foray, and took the position of Israel's State Archivis...

Over the weekend Shai Hazkani published a long article in Haaretz about Israeli crimes in 1948 and attempts to cover them up, first by David...

It's Yom Hazikaron today, the mournful day of commemoration for the 25-thousand-plus Israelis who have died in our century-long conflict...

Operation Pillar of  Cloud, as it was called in Hebrew, is over. At the end of this blogpost I'll shut down once more. Before signing of...

Because if I did still blog, I'd have to spend this entire morning deleting everything I'd written this past month, and hacking into...

No, this blog is still dormant, as explained here . However, I still post every now and then, so the Google overlords won't delete the e...

Here are a number of responses or follow-up comments to the discussion of my post yesterday, about how Israel should leave most of the West ...

Not long ago I read an article about some Israeli legislation in the 1950s. It was sobering to see that I'd never heard of almost any of...

I continue to be offline, sorry for the inconvenience. In the meantime, here's an interesting article about a subject I often write abou...

We're approaching 8 million people : ten times the population in 1948, but still one of the world's smaller countries, not that you...

Alex Stein, an occasional reader of this blog, has reactivated his own blog . Alex is rather to my left, and he and I disagree on much, but ...

For years I've believed - and have said in print - that for all my disagreements with far-left Israelis, they were a legitimate voice an...

Yuval Elbashan, a 40-something Israeli lawyer who'd like to rectify all the social woes of Israel (wouldn't we all?) moans about how...

The Israeli economy continues to grow faster than expected . The annual rate of growth recorded in the final quarter of 2011 was 7.8%. If we...

Jeffrey Goldberg is angry that Israelis are fuming about J-Street, and has proclaimed on his blog that " Goldblog is a pro-J Street blo...