October 7 attacks

Three years after October 7, a quiet question — "do we still need this?" — collides with shame, stigma, and a coming election.

The nuclear football, the duty clerk, the biscuit in the dry cleaning — how leaders stay reachable 24/7, and what that means for October 7th.

Armies built spy agencies first — half a century before Mossad. How military and civilian intelligence divide the work, and who enforces the line.

What border fences are actually built for — and why a steel barrier that took years to engineer was cut through in minutes.

What actually happens when a country rehearses its own worst day? Inside the surprise, the planning, and the October 7 lessons reshaping Israeli dr...

A co-pilot, an axe, and a 14,000-foot dive. What actually happens in the interrogation room — and why the calm matters.

Same population, same year, wildly different numbers — why the Arab Israeli identity polling keeps contradicting itself.

A third of East Jerusalem's residents hold residency, not citizenship. What the polling says about identity surprises almost everyone.

Ireland tried protectionism for 30 years and got stagnation. Israel's running a different version now. What does the record actually say?

Black armbands, a bowed anthem, a handshake withheld — what the Ireland-Israel fixture reveals about protest without a price.

A planned neighborhood on Kiryat Gat's edge is pulling in Anglo olim with prices that undercut Beit Shemesh and Modiin.

Gallup's 2026 first-ever Palestinian sympathy lead isn't a flip toward Palestinians — it's a decade-long collapse in support for Israel.

A Chickasaw citizen came to Jerusalem expecting to confirm Israel as a colonial project. He left calling it the Indigenous success story.

Israel arms citizens for "distributed security," the U.S. treats guns as a right, Japan denies 90% of applicants. Three answers to one question.

Gaza is 41 km long, but inside it: refugee camps, native towns, Bedouin tribes, and a fault line that runs through every city.

Satellite imagery shows the scale. It doesn't show the eight meters of crushed concrete, the asbestos dust, or the ordnance beneath.

A crash-axe attack over Israel raises five hard questions about who actually vets flight crews — and whether route-specific screening can work.

Israel's newest submarine, the Drakon, just arrived in Haifa. What does a six-boat fleet actually buy a country the size of New Jersey?

Egypt declared terrorism over in North Sinai in 2023. The NSC still rates the peninsula level four. What's actually left?