Gil Troy

What seems like a million years ago – last May – Steve Greenberg of S-Curve Records flew into Israel for the Eurovision contest. Before plunging into his Tel Avivi music world, he visited us in old-fashioned, delightedly-unfashionable, Jerusalem. Steve lived in Israel for two years …

Many of us are wondering, “does Benny Gantz have the spine and the savvy to handle Bibi Netanyahu – or will he become yet another Bibi-patsy?” Warning, Sunday’s headlines – “LIKUD LAUNCHES ASSAULT ON PROSECUTION AHEAD OF BENJAMIN NETANYAHU TRIAL” put the moral and political …

Thirty-five years ago, on May 5, 1985, President Ronald Reagan visited the German war cemetery in Bitburg, hoping “to heal once and for all many of the lingering wounds” of World War II. Millions denounced Reagan’s insensitivity — because 49 Nazi Storm Troopers were buried among …

For months, a terrible dilemma vexed four principled patriots. To Bibi or Not to Bibi, that was the question. When two decided to Bibi, and two decided not, their uneasy alliance blew up. Yair Lapid and Boogie Ya’alon could not stomach working with Bibi, justifiably.  …

Dear D, I’m sorry that after hours and hours of serious preparation – including sacrificing precious vacation time — your class mission to Poland was cancelled. I am well aware how different this Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — would have felt for you …