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Something In the Water

This winter's heavy rains gave Israel a brief respite from water scarcity, but the country's water conservation policy is overdue for reform. Morsi: Hamas’ Best Friend?

Mohamed Morsi is more hostile to Israel, and closer to Hamas, than Mubarak.  Still, the relationship between Egypt and Gaza is more complex than it seems.Tel Aviv, We Have Lift-Off

SpaceIL is determined to make Israel the fourth country in the world to land a vessel on the moon—and plans to do it by 2015.Move Over, Jerusalem and Athens

"We may still derive an intellectual and spiritual geography from such ideas as Athens and Jerusalem.  But we are able to do so only because they are nodes in the empire of Ancient Rome."Levittown on the Jordan?

Rawabi on the West Bank will be the first Palestinian planned community.  If it succeeds, it will show that Palestinians already have considerable power to shape their own future.  The Conversion Crisis

"The halakhic Jewishness of an Orthodox convert is not decided by the Rabbanut—but by God.  The Rabbanut has no right whatever to question or deny the validity of halakhic conversions."The Mehitzah Heresy

Today, it goes without saying that an Orthodox synagogue must have a mehitzah separating men and women in worship.  But one great "decider" of the 20th century thought otherwise.The Ambassador from Beit Shemesh

One new Knesset member from the Yesh Atid party, which seeks increased haredi contributions to Israeli society, is himself an Orthodox rabbi.  Can he help bridge Israel's religious divides?Returning to Eden

Biblical critics have long insisted that we view the Bible only in its original, "authentic" context.  But there was never a single original context, as the critical approach to Genesis itself testifies.Out of the Frying Pan

With Sunni Islamists increasingly dominating the Free Syrian Army, Israel may soon face a new Syrian regime allied with Hamas and Egypt—and no less hostile than Assad.