Ephraim Kishon

Bruno Kreisky was the first and only Jew ever to rule a German-speaking country. Not only that, but in the thirteen years (between 1970 and 1983)…

IN THE days when he was prime minister and before that mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert had a certain belligerence where journalists were concerned.…

Forget the Spaghetti Westerns of the United States, the Israeli movie industry of the 1960s and 1970s had its own tasty dishes to present to…

November 21, 2006, was an unseasonably warm day. At the top of Sderot Herzl, all the who’s who of Jerusalem gathered for an important ceremony. Even…

The good news to emerge from the Barzilai Medical Center emergency room imbroglio is that public outrage in this country cannot be completely…

It's all in the eyebrows. When I used to tell peopleI wrote about Israeli movies, their eyebrows would furrow downward,into an unmistakable…

The Israeli Stage Orchestra will dedicate its season opening concert Thursday night to celebrating the 300th anniversary of Giovanni Battista…

This country is, of course, no stranger to waves of immigration; and each new community goes through absorption difficulties and struggles for…

The annual Feast of Israeli Music will take place between September 21 and 24 in four Israeli cities - Rishon Lezion, Haifa, Beersheba and Givataim,…

Meir "Mike" Ronnen, the sharp-witted Jerusalem Post art critic and cartoonist credited with coining the newspaper's name, died at Jerusalem's Shaare…

Hillel Mittelpunkt's Anda from Beit Lessin was named Play of the Year, Mittelpunkt won Best Playwright and Best Actress went to Keren Tzur in the…

Veteran Yiddish theater actor Ya'akov 'Yankele' Bodo will receive the 2009 Meir Margalit Lifetime Achievement Prize at this year's Israel Theater…

It's interesting how a quite ordinary conversation with a friend - this one was about the (dubious) merits of parties in our recent elections - can,…

Some people think out of the box - the Blue Box that is. Nothing symbolizes the relationship between the early state and the Diaspora as much as the…

Like many journalists in the most recent war, I discovered a battle going on in my e-mail in-box, where comments on Operation Cast Lead replaced spam…

Given the escalating public concern for environmental issues, the elections of 2009 would seem to offer an unprecedented opportunity for a green…

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM holds that the State of Israel came into being as an outcome of the Holocaust. Not so, argues well-known Holocaust historian…

The following story about sexologist/stand-up comedian Dr. Tzahi Ben-Zion contains no four-letter words - unless you count 'help,' which is what it…

Anglo singles pose with Menahem Shenkin, publicist and member of Tel Aviv's 'Mayflower' who led (unsuccessfully) the opposition to Tel Aviv's first…

Israel's a weird place. We relish extremes. During our socialist phase - under the pre-state and early-state hegemony of Mapai (yesteryear's acronym…