Etgar Keret

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- FOURTEEN ISRAELIS WERE killed in terror attacks and more than a hundred injured last Saturday. The number of Israeli dead in the past two weeks totals nearly 50, just about the same number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli army campaign in Tul Karm. So far,......

tel aviv, Israel -- If any of the citizens of this insane country still entertained doubts concerning our shaky emotional condition, they were dispelled last Saturday night. On March 2, as on most Saturday nights, Channel 2, Israel’s most popular television station, broadcasts a soccer game. Immediately following a terror......

Translated from Hebrew by Ruchie Avital My mother says I’ll never be able to understand what it’s like for a nation to be without a country. Now, my mom, she really knows what she’s talking about. After all, she went through the Holocaust, saw her home destroyed in Poland, lost......

I‘ve been here in Iowa at the International Writers Program for a while now, but it took me a long time to get used to it. In Israel, I avoid shopping malls, because they are places where bombings occur. I eventually overcame this reflex and actually went inside one, and......