For Israel and the UAE, Divergence over Iran Proves the Durability of Normalization
More than my enemy’s enemy.
January 11, 2022
Beijing’s Popular, Hebrew-Speaking PR Man in Israel Masks an Unequal Power Dynamic
Meet “Chinese Itzik.”
In the coastal city of Haifa, a new, expanded, and fully modernized port has just opened—run by a Chinese company. The project raised eyebrows in Washington, tied to to long-running disagreements over the implications of Jerusalem’s economic relations with Beijing. Matti Friedman explores the issue by profiling a man known as “Chinese Itzik,” the Communist country’s Hebrew-speaking, media-savvy public-relations man in Israel:
January 11, 2022
Beijing’s Popular, Hebrew-Speaking PR Man in Israel Masks an Unequal Power Dynamic
Meet “Chinese Itzik.”
How the Deir Yassin Libel Helped to Create the Palestinian Refugee Problem
The massacre that wasn’t.
At the Wannsee Conference, Educated and Rational Men Dedicated Themselves to Fulfilling an Irrational and Evil Vision
What happens when moral structures collapse.
The Children’s Books That Helped Bring Jews into the American Mainstream
All-of-a-Kind Family.