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What border fences are actually built for — and why a steel barrier that took years to engineer was cut through in minutes.

Gaza is 41 km long, but inside it: refugee camps, native towns, Bedouin tribes, and a fault line that runs through every city.

A third of East Jerusalem's residents hold residency, not citizenship. What the polling says about identity surprises almost everyone.

A new IDF response to a Venice-winning film raises a sharp question: what do documentarians owe when sources stay truly anonymous?

The nuclear football, the duty clerk, the biscuit in the dry cleaning — how leaders stay reachable 24/7, and what that means for October 7th.

Armies built spy agencies first — half a century before Mossad. How military and civilian intelligence divide the work, and who enforces the line.

Gallup's 2026 first-ever Palestinian sympathy lead isn't a flip toward Palestinians — it's a decade-long collapse in support for Israel.

Inside the Jerusalem camp that's within the city limits but beyond the barrier — taxed by the city, policed by no one.

Egypt ruled Gaza for 19 years without annexing it. Israel applied full law to East Jerusalem in 1967. Two occupied places, two very different legal...

Famine classification fights obscure simpler questions: how many children are acutely malnourished, and what does the data actually show?

Israelis say housing and cost of living decide their vote — but the campaign is about everything else. Can the pragmatic center break the pattern?

Netanyahu's quick UN trip sparks a bigger question: how do you actually measure a country's isolation? We build seven heuristics.