Gershom Gorenberg I have a new article up at the Hadassah Magazine site on African refugees in Israel: When he was 13, Akon told us, the government-backed militia came to his village in southern Sudan. “They started killing people and burning their houses,” Akon said, speaking so quietly that I had to lean over our [...]

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“An infiltrator is subject to five years imprisonment,” reads the government-backed bill that gained initial approval of the Knesset yesterday, by a vote of 21-1*. If the “infiltrator” – someone crossing illegally into Israel – is from an enemy country, the maximum sentence goes up to seven years. In other words: The law states that [...]

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What could Israel look like in 20 years, if we do things right? My article looking forward is now online at the National Post in Canada: In Israel, 2028, Ibrahim Abdullah Hapalit is the reigning literary star. His first novel, Sinai, is based on his childhood escape from Darfur, across Egypt and the Sinai desert [...]

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This idea that Israel should offer asylum to non-Jewish refugees – how new is that? Some crazy concept thought up by secular Tel Aviv liberals with no concern for Israel’s Jewish character? Actually, no. Just a bit older than that. After my post a few days ago on the need for a new policy on [...]

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