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He was in the room at every critical, defense-related moment in the past decades. Now, Zohar Palti, who held senior Mossad and Defense Ministry posts, recalls what happened when Netanyahu and Barak ordered the army to prepare an Iran strike – within 16 days ....
Award-winning photojournalist Judah Passow reflects on his work An Israeli patrol, ready to search the house of a Palestinian Fatah member. Is it true that a picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes? Not always, but very often. We live in a visual age. Pictures whether moving or still can do a lot of good, but also a lot of harm. There are those images that evoke pity in the viewer like that of the naked child fleeing towards the photographer after a napalm attack in Vietnam in 1972. There are those that are intended to mislead, like the countless manipulated images taken out of context, which are often used, especially in armed conflicts, to demonstrate supposed victories or defeats. And there are pictures that demoralize, brutalize and traumatize the viewer. Especially in conflicts, therefore, pictures have a special significance. They can intensify conflicts, but they can also stimulate reflection and compassion. Photojournalists and cameramen theref ....