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Inside Mossad

Israel's foreign intelligence service has played a crucial role at key moments in the country's history. In the coming months, it may target Hamas operatives both in Gaza and furth..

Ahron Bregman November 27, 2023

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Is Falstaff too large a character to bring to life?

Falstaff is, along with Macbeth, perhaps the hardest major Shakespearean role to fully inhabit.

Alexander Larman November 23, 2023

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Ferdinand’s second life was the sweetest

How did the deposed and once despised Habsburg monarch manage the perfect political retirement?

Fergus Butler-Gallie November 22, 2023

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Stopping the Exodus: an impossible task

The voyage in 1947 of the Exodus, a ship chartered by a Zionist militia, piled pressure on the British government to relax the limits it had imposed on Jewish immigration to Palest..

James Barr November 21, 2023

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Securing Scandinavia

Finland and Sweden have woken up to the fact that, in a fragmented, destabilised world, countries need to adopt measures to guarantee ‘security of supply’. Their allies should do s..

Elisabeth Braw November 16, 2023

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J.M. Coetzee’s absence without leave

The Nobel Prize winner's readers need him to aim the sharp point of his pen at the current state of South Africa, the country that drove him away.

Rob Lownie November 14, 2023

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The growing threat to Jewish life in Germany

Hamas' attack on Israel has triggered a huge increase in attacks on Jews in Germany. The question is: how long will society keep its eyes shut to the growing threat to Jewish life ..

Katja Hoyer November 14, 2023

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The Messianic roots of the modern settler movement

Sometimes the Israeli government and the settlers’ aims are in conflict and sometimes they intersect. Today they are as closely intertwined as they have ever been.

Michael Goldfarb November 10, 2023

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Fake Shakespeare

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important books in English literature: William Shakespeare's First Folio. Yet the history of the Folio i..

Josh Mcloughlin November 10, 2023