Women sitting among ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the front of a gender-segregated bus as part of a protest against the exclusion of women in the public sphere, 1 January 2012. Miriam Alster. Flash90.

Tolstoy famously wrote that ‘All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The Abu Fraiha family – the subject of a beautiful and moving documentary In ...

To be entrusted with someone’s narrative is a privilege. To grant such access … is an act of faith. To be on the receiving end of such an act of faith is a privilege. Marda Dunsky, Stories from ...

Israeli students protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, in Jerusalem, 16 March 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 ...

Ernest Bevin (left) in 1942. Photo by Howard Coster, National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons.

The Director of the Mossad has to think geopolitically. He (and so far it has always been a ‘he’) has to focus not merely on regional issues, but on developments further afield, in particular how they ...

Efraim Halevy, the ninth director of Mossad (National Israeli Intelligence Agency) and the fourth head of the Israeli National Security Council, 27 January 2015. Photo by Yaakov Naumi. Flash90.

Sam Faddis’s recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War is a highly readable one replete with new details and lots of interesting tidbits about ...

Fathom invited responses to the Israeli government’s decision to designate six Palestinian NGOs as prohibited terrorist fronts from both supporters and opponents of the move. This week Gerald M.

Aluf Benn, Editor in Chief of Haaretz newspaper spoke to Fathom Editor Alan Johnson about the politics and the personality of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Alan Johnson: Benjamin ...

Neil Lochery is the Catherine Lewis Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at University College London (UCL). He has served as an advisor to political and economic leaders from both ...

New York University, photo by Benjamin Kraft via Flickr. Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...