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To remake an Israel that its citizens feel safe in, there is only one proper outcome

A month or so ago I visited Tel Aviv to show solidarity as the most dreadful moment in modern Jewish history surged on, and to demonstrate to my friends in Israel that I, at least, had not forsaken them. They were still traumatised, but had begun to think clearly, and their words cut right through meaningless noise of Western politicians and dignitaries I’d been suffocating on. Sitting with chocolate milks and halva-stuffed buns in Dizengoff Circle, my old friend Daniela – with whom, over the ye

Zoe Strimpel returns to the city she loves

Sitting with friends in Tel Aviv this week, there was a common theme: a deep depression at the events of October 7 and a constant, grinding and anxious awareness of the hostages still in Gaza, a fraction of whom are being drip-fed back to safety in exchange for days of ceasefire.

The emotion, and commitment to what happens next, is genuine and complete. “We are all in Gaza,” they say, and they mean it