The midterms have been brutal for Israel
A week after inconclusive election results that saw neither side win a large enough majority to form a government, Israel…
Can Netanyahu cling on?
Israel looks set for a lengthy period of back-room deals, coalition negotiations and potential political instability after neither of the…
Israel’s Arab voters could decide this election
As Israel prepares for its election on October 27, the most consequential in decades, I find myself missing my late…
Sanctioning the West Bank will hurt Palestinians
The passengers on an El Al flight from Tel Aviv last week to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport were quickly separated and…
Hungarian independence day makes me think about Britain
One of the most important and dramatic dates in Hungarian and European history is 15 March 1848. The dashing poet Sandor Petofi recited the stirring ‘Nemzeti dal’ (‘National song’).…
What Margaret Thatcher meant to Hungary
It is a most fitting tribute: an iron and steel statue of the Iron Lady in a city once behind…
Giorgio Perlasca’s Christmas in wartime Budapest
Artillery boomed over the Buda hills, the flashes of explosions slicing through the freezing winter dusk. The crack of rifle…
Remembering the Roma Holocaust, 80 years later
On 16 May, 1944, as the first full trainloads of Hungarian Jews trundled towards Auschwitz, the SS decided to clear…
Wartime Budapest was a haven, then a hell, for Europe’s Jews
One day in May 1944, in the Nagyvárad ghetto, Sándor Leitner saw an elderly man struggling to walk towards him.…
