Matti Friedman
Journalist at Freelance
Contributor at Jewish Review of Books
Writing in Jerusalem.
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1 week ago |
thefp.com | Matti Friedman
Matti Friedman: What the Kibbutz Can Teach Israel on Its 77th BirthdayOf the 400 residents of Nir Oz, a quarter were either kidnapped or killed by Hamas on October 7. Now, they rebuild. The team of architects and planners trying to envision the rebirth of Nir Oz, a kibbutz on the Gaza border devastated by the massacres of October 7, 2023, knew they’d face design challenges, from the placement of communal buildings to the size of family homes.
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1 month ago |
thefp.com | Matti Friedman
Israel’s Threats from WithinQatari money is like fingerprints that appear when an ultraviolet light turns on. Few expected it to turn up in Israel itself. JERUSALEM — Even those accustomed to the roiling wrestling ring that is Israeli politics can’t remember a week like the last one. Multiple aides to Israel’s own prime minister, people operating in the most rarefied sanctuary of our leadership and state security, are accused of doing paid side jobs for Qatar, an enemy state. Two have been arrested.
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2 months ago |
thefp.com | Matti Friedman
Six hundred miles and eight decades lie between the terrible parentheses on either end of the life of Shlomo Mantzur. Mantzur—a diminutive carpenter, a father of five and grandfather of 12, a man whose only extravagance was a spectacular moustache—expected to end his life at the kibbutz in southern Israel where he fixed cupboards and clocks and tended his garden in the heat.
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2 months ago |
fathomjournal.org | Alan Johnson |Matti Friedman |Susie Linfield |John Strawson
Ben Freeman writes about his recent book, The Jews: An Indigenous People. While our primary concern is how we understand ourselves, Freeman writes, indigeneity also offers a way for the wider world to comprehend our experience and identity. The Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel. My new book, The Jews: An Indigenous People (released on February 27, 2025), presents the first-ever scholarly work to conclusively prove this.
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2 months ago |
thefp.com | Matti Friedman
Israeli television did not broadcast the ceremony that took place in Gaza this morning. As masked terrorists put four black coffins on a stage in Khan Younis, the channels instead showed photos of the people inside them, taken before the war began—including of an Israeli mother and two redheaded boys, laughing on a couch, picking fruit in an orchard, still believing they’re safe.
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RT @bariweiss: HOW QATAR BOUGHT AMERICA. A @TheFP investigation by @FrannieBlock and @jaysolomon. Read it here: https://t.co/h1ugFBVprE
RT @TheFP: “For much of the life of the state of Israel… if you knew one thing about the country, it was the kibbutz,” writes @MattiFriedma…
The team rebuilding Kibbutz Nir Oz had to stop and answer a question they weren’t expecting: What is a kibbutz? https://t.co/Ta40mOTc9s
