Iran’s March to the Atomic Bomb Continues
While it has increasingly hobbled inspectors.
July 9, 2021
How Kobi Oz Gave Israeli Music Its Middle Eastern Flavor
Country music from the Negev.
Nobody has had a greater influence on contemporary Israeli popular music, argues Matti Friedman, than Kobi Oz, who led the way in bringing North African and Middle Eastern sounds into the mainstream. Born to Tunisian parents in the working-class southern city of Sderot, then populated mostly by Moroccan Jews, Oz—together with his band, Teapacks—popularized a genre that Friedman terms the “spiritual equivalent of American country and Western music”:
July 9, 2021
Poland’s New Holocaust Law Should Be Unacceptable to Israel
An attempt to whitewash Polish anti-Semitism.
Israel Shouldn’t Let Poland’s Holocaust Law Interfere with an Important Alliance
To be prudent, it’s necessary to be smart, not just right.
How Kobi Oz Gave Israeli Music Its Middle Eastern Flavor
Country music from the Negev.
Jerusalem’s Splendid 2,000-Year-Old City Hall
Even in Roman times, a very Jewish city.