Israeli Indecision on the Palestinian Issue Is a Sign of Strength, Not Weakness
What a new book about Israeli prime ministers gets wrong, and right, about today.
October 11, 2019
The Israel Museum Features the Recovered Manuscripts of Two Middle Eastern Space Explorers, One Modern and One Mythical
Ilan Ramon and the book of Enoch.
On display through November at the Israel Museum, the exhibit Through Time and Space juxtaposes the outer-space diary of Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut who died in the 2003 Columbia disaster, with the oldest known text of the book of Enoch, a cosmological travelogue of a very different kind. Both manuscripts have dramatic stories of discovery and were reconstructed through painstaking work. Fragments of Ramon’s diary literally fell from the sky and were found in Florida; fragments of the book of Enoch, until then known only in translation, were collected from among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Reviewing the exhibit, Shai Secunda praises the diary’s “unadorned yet eloquent, almost literary” Hebrew, and describes the book of Enoch, one of several ancient works that take as their hero a character who receives a mere four verses in the fifth chapter of Genesis:
October 11, 2019
The Yom Kippur Attack at a German Synagogue Is Not an Isolated Event
A result of the failure of the authorities.
America’s Dangerous Abandonment of the Kurds, and the Five Years of Confusion That Led Up to It
Two very problematic allies.
The Israel Museum Features the Recovered Manuscripts of Two Middle Eastern Space Explorers, One Modern and One Mythical
Ilan Ramon and the book of Enoch.
A 5,000-Year-Old Metropolis North of Tel Aviv
The region’s largest city in its day.