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Anti-Fascist Warrior-Hairdresser

From a Sephardic orphanage to the Haganah to the hair salon, Vidal Sassoon, who died yesterday at age 84, lived a life worth celebrating. (Read an interview with Sassoon here.)What Next for Netanyahu?

Just before his colleagues were set to vote the 18th Knesset into history, the prime minister achieved something that he and his supporters will doubtless depict as a political masterstroke. Was it?Site Unsound

Maimonides wrote that "no headstones should be built on [holy men's] graves because their words are their memory." Naturally, Israel is planning to renovate his gravesite to the tune of $10 million and a sky-high laser beam.Nobel Nuggets

There was no Nobel Peace Prize for 1939, because Germany invaded Poland on September 1. (Forty-seven years later, Henry Kissinger would write to Elie Wiesel: "I was not proud of my Nobel, but I am of yours.")Strength in Numbers

What is the Yiddish saying? Nine rabbis cannot daven together, but 10 illiterate shoemakers make a minyan.Taba via Trouble

Disregarding Israel's severe travel warning, one journalist ventures—with his camera—into the Sinai Peninsula. (Photographs)The Dirt on Mr. Clean

In recent years, Salam Fayyad has shaken more hands, kissed more babies, and cut more red ribbons than any Palestinian official. Presidential aspirations or no, it's enough for Fatah to feel threatened.The Reality of Race

Historical analysis now depends not only on pottery shards, flaking manuscripts, and faded coins, but on something far less ambiguous: DNA. And the study of Jewish DNA yields some surprising findings.Search on a Centennial

One hundred years ago, Yosef Haim Brenner sold a pair of suspenders to fund the publication of S.Y. Agnon's first book—copies of which are now actively sought after.Where’s the Outcry over Palestinian Censorship?

Hamas has arrested journalists and jailed bloggers. In the West Bank, slander of high-ranking officials is punishable by up to two years in prison. Where is the world's outrage?