Israel Diaries

Independent investigative journalism

Soon everyone will be able to enter the Cave of the Patriarchs

Perhaps you do not know that the Cave of the Patriarchs — Maarat Hamachpelah — is not accessible to all. While everyone is permitted to enter the holy site at which Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their wives Sarah, Leah and Rivka are buried, not everyone is able to. In today’s world of attending to […]

No Jews, no news! Corollary: Oh! It’s just them.

It is commonly recognized among those who are fighting the anti-Israel propaganda machines that if Jews cannot be accused of being perpetrators of a specific instance of harm, then perpetration of that specific instance of harm is not news. In other words, no Jews, no news! That is almost as true in Israel among the […]

Is This a Sign of Things to Come?

Rabin once called it “The Association for the Rights of Hamas” and yet our government seemed to have seen fit to send representatives to a conference they are holding next week. SEEMED, past tense. Because while the office of the Justice Ministry saw nothing wrong in sending a senior staff member to speak at the […]