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The pilot who pressed the button and dropped the bomb; the commanding officer who gave him the order; the Shin Bet agent…
Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper's deputy editor. He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper.
Levy was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996.
His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and New York.
What to do with the kids during summer vacation? Some Palestinians don’t have that problem. They send the kids to infiltrate into…
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Most Israelis, it is safe to assume, have never and probably will never visit the settlement of Beit El. They therefore have…
It is only a very small minority of people who support the refusal to serve in the territories and also back up…
In the 24 years of our acquaintance, four of which I spent working as your aide, this is the third time I…
The punitive action executed by Israel at the weekend in the Gaza Strip, and in particular the mass demolition of homes in…