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1. I loved the subject very much. What made me love it even more was Mr. Emad, the teacher. He would laugh with us and tell us many stories that made us love the lesson. And every time he came to class, he brought a globe with him, showing us the seas, oceans, hills, and […]
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A pregnant woman lays naked in a bathtub filled with amber water. She has a serene yet intense expression, with her eyes slightly open and her head tilted back. The lighting is warm and moody. It emphasizes the contours of her slender body and her prominent pregnant belly. Her long black hair unfolds reassuringly in […]
Danielle Zilberberg is a writer, editor, translator, and communications leader. A founding member of the literary and intellectual magazine Alaxon, she has written and edited for Haaretz and other art publications, blending literary criticism, cultural commentary, and journalism. For the past decade, she has worked in high-tech marketing and currently leads communications at Simply. In […]
“He’s alive!” Member Ma`ayan entered the room at a run. “He’s healthy, I heard him cry. It’s a Harvest Festival miracle. Didn’t you see the texts?” The faces of the five members of the Committee who were assembled in the conference room glowed, but a moment later they donned an enigmatic expression. They looked at […]
Nadav Neuman is a writer, born in 1988. He holds a master’s degree in the history and philosophy of science and ideas from Tel Aviv University. He has published two books of poetry so far, and his debut novel is set to be published in 2025. He writes about the weird parts of life, the […]
My father believed in Marxist karma as a thrilling destiny that was tailored to the measurements of his short, solid body. He viewed the world through defiant, eroding eyes, as if endowed with the ability to discern an elusive spark of truth in the darkness. When he would focus his gaze on me, I felt […]
I knew that Hertz and his wife could not possibly be home at this hour. I even had a note ready in my purse: “Came by but found you were out. So sorry. Shoshana”. It was a good thing, for it could save me from paying a dreary duty call to this house for another […]
The summer I fell in love with AI was also the summer I fell in love with N, and the two weren’t unrelated. Early that summer, a machine N had built kept popping up in my feed. My reaction was normal: I ignored it, then liked it, and by the third time I saw it, […]
Zohar Elmakias is an author, anthropologist, and translator. Her debut novel in Hebrew, titled Terminal, was published in 2020, and her essays, short stories, and articles have appeared on various literary and academic platforms. Elmakias earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. Currently, she is a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas & […]
Sometimes strangers come visit, friends of yours, parents themselves. I don’t have any problem with that, let them come, you have every right to invite them. But as long as they do, why do they have to visit me? What do I have to do with it? They come in, hello-hello, hugs and kisses, kisses […]
Once I ran away. It was in kindergarten. I had known for some time that the fence between the schoolyard and the adjoining public park had fallen over. A thicket of oleander grew behind it. One day at noon I stood in front of the opening and saw that I could pass through it and […]
In the summer of 1977, you moved to 90 Ahad Ha’am Street in Tel Aviv for one month. The summer was a real summer. There was no air-conditioning in 90 Ahad Ha’am. The entrance to the building was low, peeling away, uninviting. On the left there was an ambiguous shop, a sort of washing-ironing place. […]
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