Ari Harow found himself at the very heart of the Israeli political scene over a critical period in its history. In My Brother’s Keeper: Netanyahu, Obama, & The Year of Terror & Conflict That Changed the Middle East Forever, he gives his readers a full, frank, and detailed account of what he experienced. Born … Read more
Toward the end of 2002, with the United Nations scheduled to vote on a resolution authorizing a US-led attack on Iraq, president George W. Bush asked the CIA to assemble evidence that Saddam Hussein had ties to terrorism and possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Following a high-level presentation, Bush asked, “Is this the … Read more
Pnina Lahav’s book The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power tells Golda’s story through “the lens of gender.” When Israel’s Declaration of Independence was signed, only two of the 37 signatories were women – Rachel Kagan and Golda Meir. This is symbolic of the profound difficulty that women … Read more
Most of us aren’t quite sure how we’re supposed to feel about the dramatic improvement of machine capabilities—the class of tools and techniques we’ve collectively labelled, in shorthand, artificial intelligence. Some people can barely contain their excitement. Others are, to put it mildly, alarmed. What proponents of either extreme have in common is the conviction … Read more
