When David (Dadi) Barnea became Mossad chief, he established another arm to destabilize Iran. Now the head of the branch, O., reveals what happened behind the scenes: how senior regime officials are forced out from the outside ("it is cheaper than eliminating them"), and why there is still good reason to believe the regime will fall.
In an aging building at Tzrifin in central Israel, IDF engineers play with explosives in the morning and join troops in the field to test them by evening. At another hub in Caesarea, veterans of special forces units are developing technologies that can make a truck vanish from radar. This is what the race to find a solution to the new threat looks like.
Six new immigrants paired with Israel's top designers reveal how aliyah looks, feels, and wears in a time of war – a special feature for Shavuot.
Israel and the US are debating whether eliminating Mojtaba Khamenei would be preferable to leaving the new leader alive, functioning but weakened, not to mention who would even come after him.
As the literary elite boycotts Israel, Erri De Luca insists on returning to the origins of the word “Zionist” and is set to appear at the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem. In a special interview to Israel Hayom, the Neapolitan writer makes clear that he refuses to serve as decoration for Israel-haters, explains why he sent a DNA sample for ancestry testing, and reveals the one word in the Bible that, in his view, cannot be translated.
In a rather modest building somewhere in Israel, a startup in IDF uniform is developing technologies for soldiers on the front lines, including a new type of drone that troops today do not fight without.
James (not his real name) was a member of a gang that has been terrorizing Tel Aviv. Today, he is the first released prisoner without Israeli citizenship to undergo rehabilitation. Now he talks about his life of crime ("I stole from a different store every day") and tries to persuade the IDF chief of staff: Let me enlist.
MKs Simcha Rotman and Yulia Malinovsky, from rival camps, describe how a two-and-a-half-year partnership built the law that puts October 7 terrorists on trial.
Although it may sound far-fetched, the prime minister is convinced that the possibility of the ultra-Orthodox parties joining a center-left government is on the table, and he is fighting to prevent it. In his “60 Minutes” interview, Netanyahu’s truly interesting and important answer was missed.
Journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti came on a British television program to talk about Jews being stabbed. He left having spent most of the segment defending Israel from accusations of genocide. In an interview with Israel Hayom, he says British Jews have stopped asking whether to leave – and started planning how.
