Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

When I was a schoolboy, fallen soldiers were a special kind of grownup. Usual grownups went to work and had meetings, whatever those w...

Spare a moment to reflect on the hardship of being Binyamin Netanyahu this week. Actually, don’t. He’s a very powerful man and deserves no...

A number of weeks ago a video about an Israeli sniper went viral. The film appeared to show the sniper celebrating a shot that injured a ...

One place to start this story would be the dark years of the 2 nd Intifada, when Israelis tried to leave their homes as little as possible ...

The first half of that caption is a common hebrew saying, noting how it can be impossible to disprove baseless allegations. After all, perha...

Last week I had the honor of presenting a small collection of State Archives documents at AIPAC's Policy Conference 2018, in Washington ...

British General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem exactly a century ago today, on December 11th 1917, after his forces conquered the town two...

President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital has done more than upend 70 years of American policy. It has underli...

Dr. Devorah Baum of Southampton University may be more connected to some form of traditional Judaism than she lets on in her New York Times ...

Helmut Kohl, former (and important) Chancellor of Germany, died yesterday. I met him once, for 70 minutes, when he came to visit Yad Vashem...

Earlier today we were told that technology giant Intel is about to purchase one of Israel's largest tech firms, Jerusalem-based Mob...

Matti Friedman's haunting description of his time in Southern Lebanon, and ours, begins with the daily transformation of night to day, t...

Michael Herzog is a serious fellow. A retired brigadier general in the IDF intelligence corps. The son of Chaim Herzog, commander of the IDF...

I mostly don't write about books I dislike. Jonathan Safran Foer's new novel, Here I Am , will be an exception, for reasons which ac...

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...

We recently returned from a hiking trip to Georgia (the country, not the state). We had gone expecting great mountain hikes; we found the c...