For all his personal eccentricity, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats said it best in his 1919 poem The Second Coming. In the wake of Hamas’s monstrous atrocity against Israeli civilians, it appears that “the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are filled with passionate intensity.” Which is.
In 2017, when I first became aware of the World Happiness Report, I read that Israel was ranked the 11th happiest country in the world in a survey of more than 150 countries. The report, a creation of the United Nations, is published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network using data collected from citizens of