Israel — Stories from Middle East

Girls at War

The Young Activists of Israel: How a group of teenage believers could reshape the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.

Tablet Mag

“Ulpana High school, Where settler girls go to become ‘real men’ ” That was the headline I read. You think of settler girls and you think “Little House on the Prairie” or the Jewish equivalent of the Girls Madrassas I’ve been to in Pakistan: Learn your religion, learn how to be a good wife, then have 10 children. But the girls in this story were getting all that and a little extra.

The Most Wanted Palestinian

The New York Times Magazine

In the early morning of April 5, in the West Bank town of Tubas, an elderly man was milking his goats in his olive grove when he heard the whining of an unmanned drone in the sky. He looked up and saw Israeli special forces emerging from behind some trees on the nearby hillside and from cars with Palestinian plates…