Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

Prequel: I warmly recommend reading  my previous post , from a month ago, before reading this one. (Clearly, I don't blog often). That o...

About 10 days ago Channel 2 TV, Israel's most popular channel, aired a longish report claiming Breaking the Silence (BtS) investigators ...

If Twitter is to be believed, there's been a bit of interest in Jeffrey Goldberg's 70-page article in The Atlantic on President Obam...

Last week I was e-mailing back and forth with Prof. Donna Robinson Divine of Smith College about an upcoming academic event. Along the way ...

Today was the 19 anniversary of Israel's most lethal military accident, when two large transport helicopters flying troops into Lebanon ...

אני מעלה פוסט זה לכמה ימים בלבד, עד שתוקפו יפוג בעוד שבוע. ארכיון המדינה מחפש כרגע מנהל אגף ציבור, תפקיד מקביל למנהל אגף ממשל שאוייש לפ...

We're about two weeks into a period of intense Palestinian attacks against Israelis. Just today three Israelis have been murdered. The n...

Tova Herzl's fun new memoir Madame Ambassador - Behind the Scenes with a Candid Israeli Diplomat , intended to answer three questions. W...

I first arrived in Israel late in the afternoon of July 16th 1967. I knew enough about the country not to expect camels and desert everywher...

About a month ago I apologized to my readers for branching off into a bit of consumerism, and told how Air Berlin had intentionally lost the...

I don't generally post about consumer issues, but there's always a first time. Last night we (a group of 14) flew from Berlin to I...

30 years ago today, on June 30th 1985, Prime Minister Shimon Peres convened the Cabinet for a dramatic meeting. Israel had been living w...

I don't write much on this blog anymore; when I do it tends to be about impersonal matters. Israel, books, stuff. This post is very pers...

It's the evening of 28th of Iyar, the Hebrew date of the Battle of Jerusalem in June 1967 on which the IDF captured the Old City of Jeru...

In the coming months you'll be hearing even more than previously about nationalist, chauvinist, nigh-fascist and of course extreme far-r...

Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day for more than 23,000 Israelis killed in the wars. One of the most meaningful days of the year. A central part of...

Various folks have been kvetching recently about the growing incompatibility of nice American Jews and perhaps less-nice Israeli voters. Kve...

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...

Look, I know everyone is all worked up about the Netanyahu speech in Congress, scheduled for a couple of hours from now. But as I've sai...