Efrat Last
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- Sep 1, 2026
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Back to school: From national blindness to national purpose (opens the original)
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Some 2.6 million Israeli children have returned to school in Israel. For the first time since Oct. 7, 2023, the academic year will begin without a major war defining every aspect of Israeli life. Yet this is hardly an uncomplicated normal. Family members are still serving in the reserves; families continue to absorb the consequences of years of war; and Israel remains surrounded by enemies whose intentions have not changed. The obvious task facing the education system is considerable: repairing
Why democracies keep looking for kings (opens the original)
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Every democracy eventually faces the same temptation: Problems that once appeared manageable become entrenched, public trust erodes, institutions lose credibility, and political divisions deepen. At precisely that moment, politics becomes intensely personal. Elections cease to revolve primarily around competing ideas and increasingly become a search for an individual who can finally restore what seems to have been lost. There is nothing irrational about that hope. Leadership matters, and history
The battle behind the story: Victim-blaming as a new tactic (opens the original)
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The terrorist attack in Samaria on July 24 left Israelis grieving not only for the lives that were lost, but also for something else. Within hours, parts of our own public discourse had already begun telling the story in ways that shifted sympathy away from the victims and toward those responsible for their murder. Bnaya Melet and Yuval Ezra were murdered during a confrontation with Palestinian terrorists. One of the eyewitnesses, someone I know personally, later described how several people had
When frogs reach their boiling point (opens the original)
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Over the past week, I found myself thinking several times about one of the more curious episodes in the book of Exodus. The Torah tells us that during the plague of frogs, the frogs entered not only the fields and homes of the Egyptians, but even their ovens. The sages explain that this, too, was part of the miracle. Left to themselves, frogs do not voluntarily leap into burning ovens; it is contrary to instinct. The image has stayed with me because it captures something deeply unsettling: the e
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