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Jun 18, 2026, 3:48 PM

Is the Law of the Land the Law for KJ?

Close up of the statue of liberty, New York City (iStock)

Oct 11, 2017, 6:25 PM

The Land is wet, the Land is good

Ben Yehuda Street, Tel Aviv , October 8, 2017 (Miriam Herschlag)

My dog and I got caught in the first rain of the year

Dec 29, 2016, 4:13 PM

Haim Yavin, my ass

Haim Yavin, January 3, 2013 (CC BY 2.0 via Wikipedia)

Israel's Mr. Television yearns for the good old days, when men were men and women slapped them

Dec 25, 2016, 3:17 PM

The most-read Times of Israel blog posts of 2016

President-elect Donald Trump looks on during a rally at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

What did we want to read about this year? Well, Donald Trump of course, but not just Donald Trump

Oct 10, 2016, 4:10 PM

Mr. Trump, I want to go home right meow!

Communicated in full as received from a previously unknown blogger who goes by the name of P. Katz. --MH Would someone please call animal rescue services? I’ve been locked in a horrible gilded cage since I was kitnapped in my...

Dec 11, 2015, 8:46 AM

The truth about ancient horses

Replica of a horse painting from a cave in Lascaux (CC via Wikipedia)

The Israeli girl who was dissed by a horse expert deserves an answer, even one that's not strictly factual

Aug 14, 2015, 4:33 PM

My grandfather was in love with my grandmother, smitten like a school boy, and the story goes that after any meal she prepared, he would declare that the food was delicious. “Better than the best restaurant,” he would say. It...

Apr 5, 2015, 12:59 PM

Niv Asraf, apologize. To everyone

Niv Asraf, 22, a Beersheba man who faked his own kidnapping in the West Bank on April 2, 2015 (Photo credit: Niv Asraf/Facebook)

The young man who staged his own kidnapping and sent the country into red alert has some 'splainin to do

Feb 15, 2015, 8:00 AM

Blogging in the ‘Discomfort Zone’

Marking three noisy years of a platform that is shaping the conversation on Israel and the Jewish world

Jan 1, 2014, 6:17 PM

10 posts we all read in 2013

Among the more than six thousand blog posts published on The Times of Israel in 2013 were plenty of gems that sparkled. Posts galore that struck chords, tickled funny bones, spun great yarns, challenged assumptions, and expressed ideas more exquisitely than...

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Miriam Herschlag is editor of The Times of Israel's Ops & Blogs section