Yahav Zohar / April 2026 This April fools’ day, more than a month into the American-Israeli attack on Iran, it is time to ask, who are the fools in this story? Going into the war, we were told of two goals- to remove the oppressive Iranian regime and to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. A month […]
Yahav Zohar / March 2026 Last Friday and Saturday, at the new moon, Muslims celebrated the Eid al Fitr holiday. Traditionally, in Palestine this is a time to visit relatives, share meals and exchange gifts, but for many in the West Bank celebrations were marred by the threat of Iranian missiles and escalating settler violence. […]
Yahav Zohar / March 2026 Sitting at my desk in Jerusalem, looking at the lovely spring outside, occasionally the windowpane shakes in its frame. High above interceptor missiles are exploding, trying to stop an Iranian missile heading toward Tel Aviv. Once every few hours the interceptions are particularly close and a siren goes off and […]
Yahav Zohar / March 2026 Israelis whose work is not considered “vital” were mostly at home for the first days of this war. Like the first days of the pandemic, it was a good time to tend one’s home and garden, clean out drawers and closets, and catch up on correspondence. By now, day 11, […]
– By Fred Schlomka & Yahav Zohar – First published in the Shetland Times – 28th November 2025 – The article was written is support of the campaign to persuade the Shetland Island Council to divest from Israel. – What is this Israel/Gaza ‘ceasefire’? It is a mechanism that has allowed Israel to maintain the […]
by Yahav Zohar – October 11th, 2025 – A city was destroyed. In fact, several cities were. First there were bombs and missiles from the air, high rise apartment buildings collapsed and the people buried within. Finally it was armored bulldozers and unmanned ‘suicide’ APC’s collapsing what remained. Like the Roman army ploughing Jerusalem flat […]
– Yahav Zohar – September 2nd, 2025 – Did you hear about the graffiti sprayed on the Western Wall? It made the news in a small wayalmost a month ago. Some outlets even showed the photo, Hebrew letters on the ancientstones יש שואה בעזה “There is a shoa (holocaust) in Gaza”. Earlier that evening, the […]
– by Yahav Zohar – August 20th, 2025 – In Jerusalem, too, this has been one of the hottest summers on record. It’s a harsh season ina harsh place, but if you’re going to be in this country, Jerusalem’s a good choice. We’re upin the hills, and right at the edge of the desert, so […]
– by Yahav Zohar – 2/4/2023 After weeks of widespread protests in opposition to the planned “Judicial Reform”, on March 27th Netanyahu backed down and deferred the legislation, upsetting many members of his coalition. It soon became clear that to keep far right leader Itamar Ben Gvir in his government, Netanyahu had that same night […]
– by Yahav Zohar – 13/11/2022 Last Tuesday Israelis went to the polls for the fifth time in three and a half years, finally yielding what may be a stable government coalition. It is no surprise that this government will again be headed by Netanyahu, but what has been a surprise to many is the rise […]
– by Yahav Zohar – A group of young men walk down a rocky slope. They are wearing white, their sabbath clothes, moving in loose formation towards a shepherd and a grazing herd of sheep, or a farmer tending his olive trees. As they come closer, some of them cover their faces with makeshift masks […]
