Gaza Strip

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

Egypt ruled Gaza for 19 years without annexing it. Israel applied full law to East Jerusalem in 1967. Two occupied places, two very different legal...

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

Famine classification fights obscure simpler questions: how many children are acutely malnourished, and what does the data actually show?

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

Why do disasters still end in tent cities when foldable container homes and container cities already exist?

How does a vest-sized jammer take on frequency-hopping drones? The inverse-square law, spread spectrum, and why jamming reaches farther than detect...

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

The IDF's 10-page rebuttal to NAZA bundles a valid procedural complaint with an invalid one. Here's what journalism codes actually require.

A new IDF response to a Venice-winning film raises a sharp question: what do documentarians owe when sources stay truly anonymous?

Chronic PTSD isn't in the DSM. Complex PTSD is in the ICD-11. Continuous traumatic stress is in neither. What happens to patients in between?

Netanyahu's quick UN trip sparks a bigger question: how do you actually measure a country's isolation? We build seven heuristics.

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

What pan-Arabism actually claims, why it isn't the umma, and why 22 members can't stop sanctioning each other.

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

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

Israel says the consulate closed. Britain says the mission lives. Same building, same seven staff, one screwdriver.

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

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.

A 24-hour pedestrian crossing between Eilat and Taba, where a free stamp, a one-kilometer fee waiver, and four treaty zones shape every trip into S...

Israel's Foreign Minister says embassy moves matter as much as the battlefield. A listener in Jerusalem says the problem isn't PR — it's policy.

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

Eight countries keep consulates in Jerusalem that bypass their own Tel Aviv embassies. The reason goes back four centuries.

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

Inside the Jerusalem camp that's within the city limits but beyond the barrier — taxed by the city, policed by no one.