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# Adi Schwartz

Journalist, Author & Editor

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/blog/) - Array
- [Media Bias educational video](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/media-bias-educational-video/) - I participated in an educational video made by Honest Reporting, on the issue of media bias in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Among other things, I talked about the use of biased sources and fixers, and said that the most problematic aspect of the coverage is the high level of emotional attachment of many journalists with the
- [The War Isn’t Over Yet](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/the-war-isnt-over-yet/) - Anyone who wants to understand why the conflict between the Zionist movement and the Palestinian Arabs has been going on for over 100 years won’t find the answer in learned discussions of the question as to whether a quarter, a third or half of the Arabs were expelled during the 1948 War of Independence. Anyone
- [A Service for Hamas](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/a-service-for-hamas/) - Sitting in my living room for the last month and watching European and American TV coverage of the war between Hamas and Israel was a confusing experience. While sirens were going off in my residential suburb of Tel Aviv, signaling rockets coming in from Gaza, I never saw the Palestinians shooting them. In fact, I
- [The UN's Palestinian refugee agency is a farce](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/the-uns-palestinian-refugee-agency-is-a-farce/) - With much international media coverage, a photo exhibition called “The Long Journey” opened at the end of November in the old city of Jerusalem. A few dozen black and white images from the archives of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will be on display until the end of January,
- [Iraq didn't want its Jews. Why should it get their inheritance?](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/iraq-didnt-want-its-jews-why-should-it-get-their-inheritance/) - Next week (October 11th), an exhibition of Jewish artifacts dating back hundreds of years will open at the National Archives Museum in Washington DC. The story of how this invaluable collection reached the United States is an odyssey in itself, which chronicles the demise of the Babylonian Jewish Diaspora. The Iraqi Jewish Archive was found
- [Israel's racist image is distorted](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israels-racist-image-is-distorted/) - So-called “rampant racism” is a recurring theme in certain descriptions of Israel. Indeed, the relationship between Jews and Arabs in Israel is far from being a smooth one. How can it be when the two ethnic groups are engaged in a century-old violent conflict over the same piece of land? Claims about racism are voiced
- [Where is the Palestinian peace plan?](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/where-is-the-palestinian-peace-plan/) - The current round of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will unfortunately follow in the footsteps of earlier rounds and end without an agreement. Why? The short explanation is that the Palestinians are simply not interested in establishing an independent state within the pre-1967 West Bank borders. Had they been interested, they could
- [The right to claim innocence](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/the-right-to-claim-innocence/) - What is a man supposed to do, if he is accused of a crime that he believes he did not commit? Judging by some of the reactions to Israel's recent claim that the IDF soldiers didn’t kill a Palestinian boy – well then, he should simply shut up. Never mind how much evidence he has
- [The Palestinian Textbook Fiasco](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/the-palestinian-textbook-fiasco/) - For years, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been accused of inciting violence by promoting the delegitimization of Israel and its people and, in some cases, even outright anti-Semitism, in its education system. According to both Israeli and third-party observers, the PA was ingraining future generations with a worldview that essentially prevented any long-term commitment to
- [Only one side of the story](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/only-one-side-of-the-story/) - The email in my inbox immediately piqued my interest. It was a message from Paideia, The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, which was putting together a delegation of foreign journalists for a week-long tour of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. They were looking for an Israeli-based journalist to join the group. I thought
- [Sephardi Stories, on the Record](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/sephardi-stories-on-the-record/) - “Sometimes I still have nightmares,” says Juliette Glaser to her interviewer, as she sits in front of a video camera in her Miami living room, recalling in a confident voice her childhood memories from Cairo—where she was born in 1941 and which she fled 15 years later. “They were putting the city on fire during
- [Tragedy Shrouded in Silence](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/tragedy-shrouded-in-silence/) - The pages are yellowing, nearly disintegrated. For decades they have lain forgotten, stuffed into crates piled high in the archives of Israel’s Ministry of Justice. No one reads them; no one even shows interest. Even now, nearly sixty years after the painful experiences of loss and flight they recount, they still wait for their stories to be told. In
- [What really bothers London?](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/what-really-bothers-london/) - How come the UK is more concerned with issues of human rights in Israel, than in Syria, Libya or Egypt?
- [Israel’s catastrophic fire](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israel-catastrophic-fire/) - An unprecedented ferocious wildfire – causing death, destruction and heavy losses – was raging since Thursday morning through Mount Carmel in northern Israel, threatening to reach the southern outskirts of the country’s third largest city, Haifa. Despite the rapid arrival of more than 30 fire-fighting aircrafts from all around the world, Israeli security forces have
- ["UNRWA's existence is a failure"](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/unrwas-existence-failure/) - Israel's negative view of UNRWA is understandable, says head of UNRWA in Gaza, John Ging
- [New setback, same problems](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/new-setback-same-problems/) - The American envoy for Middle East peace is not a man to envy. Senator George Mitchell is trying to remain upbeat while shuttling between Jerusalem and the surrounding Arab capitals, but his deepening wrinkles leave no place for doubt: the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is - yet again - in dire straits. Direct negotiations between Israel
- [Israel’s blossoming friendship with China](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israel-china-friendship/) - If you happen to be in Beijing these days, and CCTV-2 is your favourite channel, you might stumble upon the documentary hit of the season - Walk into Israel, a 12-episode HD TV series, produced by China's national television. It is considered to be the most comprehensive (and expensive) attempt in recent years to document
- [A reminder of the ‘Jewish catastrophe’](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/the-jewish-catastrophe/) - Just a month after playing host to a Russian-American spy swap, Vienna's international airport was again last week the stage for a surprising secretive manoeuvre, this time involving the Libyan and Israeli governments, Europe's most senior leaders and one of Austria's richest businessmen. The main protagonist of the night-time drama was Rafael Hadad, a 34-year-old
- [The politics of holidays](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/the-politics-of-holidays/) - An interesting email message was sent the other day to a senior Israeli journalist by the press office of the Greek embassy in Tel Aviv. Under the headline "Greece will always remain beautiful" waited a PowerPoint presentation of some of the most stunning and tempting beaches of the Aegean islands, together with the classic touristic
- [Happy to join the club](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/join-the-club/) - It is not every day that some of Israel's harshest critics raise their hands in favour of the Jewish State. So on Monday when Norway, Ireland, Turkey and the 28 other members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) officially accepted Israel as a fully fledged member, Israelis felt that they might be
- [Israel’s new-found energy](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israel’s-new-energy/) - For years Israelis have watched their oil-rich Arab neighbours and envied their abundant energy supplies and the political clout that they bring. More than 400 onshore and 25 offshore oil wells have been drilled in Israel since the 1950s - all to no avail. But recent developments are prompting some to think there could be
- [America’s secret weapon against Iran](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/weapon-against-iran/) - The American flag used for ceremonial receptions at the Ben Gurion airport must be worn out already, as a slew of Obama administration
- [The fur ban](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/the-fur-ban/) - Brigitte Bardot is not a frequent lobbyist in the Israeli parliament, so her three consecutive letters to Knesset members, urging them to
- [The plot thickens](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/the-plot-thickens/) - The Mossad or not the Mossad - that is the question on everyone's lips here, following the identification by the police in Dubai of at least seven Israeli citizens who also hold
- [Can uniforms improve Israel’s schools?](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/uniforms-israeli-schools/) - Until 25 years ago, all Israeli schools had uniforms, but liberal educational approaches have since favoured more and more "freedom to the pupil".
- [Justice Beinisch: Stop calling Israel "Apartheid"](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/justice-beinisch-apartheid/) - In a landmark statement, the President of the Supreme Court of Israel has rejected unequivocally any comparison between Israel's policies and the Apartheid regime of South Africa
- [A media star rises in the east](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/media-star-in-the-east/) - 2010 could well be a dramatic year for newspapers in Israel, as two of them are in danger of closing down
- [The prisoner that could hold the key](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/prisoner-that-hold-the-key/) - The politics surrounding the regional conflict here might change dramatically if...
- [Moni Fanan – Israel’s Mini-Madoff](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/moni-fanan/) - As in any good drama, it started with a dead body and a question mark. On 19 October, Moni Fanan,
- [Driving a hard bargain](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/gilad-shalit-dilemma/) - The dilemma facing Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is far from simple
- [Tel Aviv's centennial is Zionism's triumph](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/tel-avivs-centnnial/) - There are prettier ones, but none share its beauty
- [Now it’s serious](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/now-it’s-serious/) - Is an Israeli attack now in Iran more probable, imminent even? Not necessarily
- [Crisis? What crisis?](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/crisis-what-crisis/) - Israel's economy is doing fairly well. Here's why
- [On journalism and organ donations](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/on-organ-donations/) - dozens if not hundreds of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza are being treated daily in Israeli hospitals
- [How did Israel stop being a free country (update)](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israel-not-free-update/) - A new and revised report is somewhat shorter and has the following changes
- [How did Israel stop being a free country](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israel-not-free-country/) - On Freedom House's decision to downgrade Israel's status
- [At last, a sane voice](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/at-last-a-sane-voice/) - Sex and passion, old friends and hidden secrets, well blended with Middle Eastern politics, suicide bombings and a little bit of Holocaust - these are the explosive ingredients that make for a summer theatrical success in the United States
- [Israeli journalists out](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-journalists-out/) - Here's a story you probably didn't hear too much about. On June 7th, the International Federation of Journalists decided to remove

## Pages

- [Home Page](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/) - Adi Schwartz is a Tel Aviv based independent freelance journalist with over 10 years experience in leading Israeli and international media outlets. He specializes in in-depth analysis, interviews and on-the-ground reportage, covering Israeli domestic affairs, the Israeli-Arab conflict, as well as social, cultural and historical issues.
- [Adi Schwartz - Biography](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/biography/) - Mr. Adi Schwartz is a researcher, lecturer and author, focusing on issues relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is the author, together with former Member of the Knesset Einat Wilf, of The War of Return, a Hebrew bestseller which will appear in 2020 in English by St. Martin's Press (Macmillan). Schwartz is an expert on two
- [For commissions and inquiries](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/contact/) - I am available to take on commissions in Israel and throughout the Middle East as a correspondent in the print and broadcast media. You can contact me with story ideas, assignments or comments using the email or phone number below.
- [The Destruction of the Arab World’s Jewry](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/destruction-of-arab-world-jewry/) - The pages are yellowing, nearly disintegrated. For decades they have lain forgotten, stuffed into crates piled high in the archives of Israel’s Ministry of Justice. No one reads them; no one even shows interest. Even now, nearly sixty years after the painful experiences of loss and flight they recount, they still wait for their stories to be told. In
- [Head of UNRWA admits it should not exist](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/unrwa-should-not-exist/) - Not many people in the West are familiar with the acronym UNRWA. But they should be: first, because Europeans and Americans pay billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to sustain this UN agency; and second, because of UNRWA’s negative role in one of the core issues of the Arab-Israeli conflict — namely, the Palestinian refugees
- [Israel’s third city has a hi-tech plan](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/economics/haifa-hitech-plan/) - Haifa, one of the British Empire’s most important strongholds in the Mediterranean until the Second World War, and now Israel’s third largest city, has been in steady decline for the past few decades. Despite its spectacular positioning between the lush Carmel mountains and the sea, a negative net migration was recorded in the past 15 years. Even its two reputable universities couldn’t offset the trend
- [La communication gouvernementale est depassée](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-fr/communication-gouvernement/) - Une des premières personnes à avoir reçu la thèse de doctorat de Nahman Shai, était Benjamin Netannyahou. Shay a décidé de se rendre personnellement dans les bureaux du Premier Ministre pour lui remettre en mains propres, ce document de 500 pages et dans lequel il analyse de façon très précise, la nature de la communication
- [Dress for success](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/dress-for-success/) - Even if nothing else seems to be changing for the best in the Middle East, at least Tzipi Livni's makeover in the last two years has brought a breath of fresh air to the region. The 51-year-old former Israeli foreign minister and Mossad agent and now head of opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu's government, has managed,
- [Dream team](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/dream-team/) - Israel's expertise in responding to terrorist attacks means it is also among the best in the world at providing rapid relief after natural disasters. Its National Search & Rescue Unit - part of Israeli defence force - was one of the first to reach Haiti within days of the earthquake in January. And the field
- [Adi Schwartz - Biografía](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-es/) - Adi Schwartz es un periodista Israelí independiente, especializado en análisis a fondo, entrevistas y reportajes sobre el conflicto Árabe-Israelí y sobre temas políticos, sociales, históricos y culturales. Escribe mas de diez años en medios de comunicación internacionales y Israelíes. Durante este período era corresponsal y redactor en Haaretz, el periódico de referencia de las élites
- [Adi Schwartz - Biographie](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-fr/) - Adi Schwartz est un journaliste Israélien indépendant, qui a travaillé plus de dix ans pour différents média Israéliens et internationaux. Il se spécialise dans le reportage, les entretiens et l’analyse, traitant le conflit israélo-arabe, la politique intérieure, ainsi que des sujets sociaux, culturels et historiques. Il a travaillé comme correspondent et rédacteur pour Haaretz, et
- [Desert dream](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/desert-dream/) - Aqaba might have only a handful of traffic lights, but $18bn of investment is tearing up its streets. This massive cash injection (for a town of just under 100,000 people) is set to transform a sleepy Jordanian port on the top tip of the Red Sea into a regional hub with world-class tourism and trade
- [Israeli press not free? They’re joking](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/israeli-press-not-free/) - Freedom House, an international NGO conducting research into democracy, political freedom and human rights, has declared in its press freedom index that Israel is no longer a "free" country. It is now only "partially free". Odd. If anything, the Israeli press is over-aggressive, with little respect for privacy and a tendency towards sensationalism. More so
- [Perché il rapporto sulla stampa “non libera” in Israele sbaglia](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-it/rapporto-stampa-israele/) - Gerusalemme. Il primo maggio 2009, Freedom House, un'organizzazione non governativa internazionale che si occupa di ricerche sulla democrazia nel mondo, ha dichiarato che secondo il suo rapporto sulla libertà di stampa Israele non è più un paese "libero", ma solo "parzialmente libero". Appare bizzarro: la stampa israeliana potrebbe essere biasimata, semmai, per eccesso di aggressività ,
- [Adi Schwartz - Biografia](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-it/) - Adi Schwartz é un giornalista israeliano indipendente specializzato in approfondite analisi, interviste e servizi di reportage sul conflitto arabo-israeliano e su argomenti di ordine politico, sociale, culturale e storico. Collabora da più di dieci anni con notevoli mezzi di comunicazione israeliani e internazionali. Durante questo periodo fu tra l'altro corrispondente e redattore per Haaretz, quotidiano
- [L'affaire al-Dura revisitée](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-fr/laffaire-al-dura-revisitee/) - Si vous demandez à Philippe Karsenty pourquoi il s’impose tout cela, il vous répondra : « Je ne suis que le messager ». Ce combat contre la chaîne publique de télévision française, France 2, qui dure depuis déjà trois ans et qu’il ne mène pas avec l’appui de l’Etat d'Israël, Karsenty, conseiller financier juif prospère
- [Il triangolo d'amore dei ironizza sui tic anti Israele](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-it/triangolo-damore-anti-israele/) - Sesso e passione, vecchi amici e segreti nascosti, il tutto condito con la politica mediorientale, gli attacchi suicidi e pure un pochino di Olocausto. Sono questi gli ingredienti che stanno trasformando un evento teatrale di new York in un successo. La pièce teatrale - "Peace warriors" è il titolo, guerrieri di pace - è stata
- [Voyage to South America - Part 4](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/voyage-south-america-4/) - BRASILIA. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva (Lula) came to power in late 2002 on the wings of great promise. "My goal is for every child in Brazil to eat three meals a day," the president said in his inauguration speech, and he immediately became a figure of admiration in his country and elsewhere.
- [Voyage to South America - Part 3](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/voyage-part-3/) - SAO PAULO. Ronaldo arrives by helicopter. Naomi Campbell drops in a couple of times a year to freshen her wardrobe. Michael Schumacher, the Formula 1 champion, does victory laps here. Welcome to Daslu, the fashion temple of Sao Paulo and a mecca for Brazil's rich. With all respect to Milan, Paris and New York, none
- [Voyage to South America - Part 2](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/liberator-and-messiah/) - CARACAS. Like a giant worm, Caracas, capital of Venezuela, slithers across 25 kilometers from east to west, to the slopes of the ever-green Mount Avila. A gray tropical cloud hangs over the megalopolis at about half the mountain's elevation, closing it in like a pressure cooker. On the map, Caracas looks like one city with
- [Voyage to South America - Part 1](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/a-great-human-revolution/) - LA PAZ. The potholed asphalt road winds constantly upward outside La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. It's hard to believe that we can climb any higher. At an elevation of 3,600 meters, La Paz is the world's highest capital city. The air is thin, breathing is arduous, even the cigarettes almost go out by themselves.
- [The remains of the day ](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/the-remains-of-the-day/) - HAVANA. The initial feeling you get in Cuba is one of warmth. Not because of the temperature, which even on a late November night is over 20 degrees Celsius, but because of the quiet. On the way from Jose Marti International Airport to the capital, Havana, a distance of about 15 kilometers, there isn't a
- [Rock of all ages](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/rock-of-all-ages/) - GIBRALTAR - A heavy cloud of fine perfume fills the inside of the synagogue. A hundred men or so sit on the thick wooden benches. The early evening prayer service is over and they are waiting for a study session with Yeshayahu Ben-Naim. Two enormous chandeliers hang from the high ceiling, with dozens of tiny
- [Between lesser and greater evils](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/between-lesser-evils/) - ANTWERP - In the spring of 2002, the sense of confidence felt by the Jews of this city was so shaken that many of them, particularly those living in proximity to Muslims, were afraid to leave their homes. It was the time of the bombing at the Park Hotel in Netanya and Operation Defensive Shield
- [A bombshell for British Muslims](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/a-bombshell-for-british-muslims/) - LONDON - Shakawan arrived in London from Iraq only three years ago, but he already had an English girlfriend here. He is 19 and never studied English before he came to London, but now he speaks with a heavy British accent. This is thanks to his girlfriend he says, and then corrects himself: former girlfriend.
- [The protocols of the elders of Brussels](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/the-protocols-of-brussels/) - The original sin is attributed to Charles de Gaulle. Disappointed by the loss of the French colonies in Africa and the Middle East, as well as with France's waning influence in the international arena, the president of France in the 1960's decided to create a strategic alliance with the Arab and Muslim world to compete
- [The other side of memory ](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/the-other-side-of-memory/) - The former Israeli ambassador to Germany, Avi Primor, once found an old German newspaper from 1946. Inside the yellow clipping, he noticed an editorial that called for closing the chapter of the past and ceasing to deal with World War Two. A year has passed since the war, the editorial said, and the Nuremberg trials
- [The anti-boycott movement's movers and shakers](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/the-anti-boycott/) - "Rotten Zionist" is only one of the names David Hirsh was called during his campaign against the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Hirsh, who in 2005 founded the organization Engage with Jon Pike, was called these names not by hooligans or angry Internet posters, but by his colleagues in the British academic world, whom he
- [Temple Mount yes, Mount Sinai no](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/temple-mount-yes/) - One of the central obstacles in deliberations toward a permanent Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is the status of holy sites in Jerusalem. Yet, the introduction of religious elements in negotiations between secular parties is like placing a bomb in the room where deliberations take place: The use of the term "holy" usually lifts debate from the
- [See you in court, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/see-you-ahmadinejad/) - Next month, a new element will be introduced into the discussions about the international community's attitude toward Iran, which is becoming a nuclear power. A group of Israelis, headed by former UN ambassador Dr. Dore Gold, recently completed the composition of a lawsuit to be referred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague against
- [Chronicle of chaos](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/chronicle-of-chaos/) - 1. Sunday, 9 P.M., the eastern neighborhood of Acre An 8-year-old boy, riding his bicycle, suddenly breaks at the entrance to the Basel pizzeria. His shirt is pale blue, his face adorable. "A normal kid," as the media like to say. "Death to the Arabs," he suddenly blurts out. "Let them go to hell, those
- [A country in question ](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/a-country-in-question/) - "Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist,' wrote Abba Eban in a November 1981 article in The New York Times. "Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair, awaiting acknowledgement by the
- ['All I wanted was justice'](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/all-i-wanted-was-justice/) - Albert Metzger never left his hotel. Although he owned another six hotels in Alexandria, and was actually in charge of the entire hotel industry in northern Egypt, for him the seaside Cecil Hotel was the jewel in the crown. From the time he built it in 1929 Metzger lived there, in a private apartment on
- [Un pays en question](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-fr/un-pays-en-question/) - « Ce n’est pas faire une faveur à Israël que d’affirmer son ’droit à exister’ », écrivait Abba Eban, dans un article de 1981, paru dans le New York Times. « Le droit d’Israël à exister, comme celui des Etats-Unis, de l’Arabie Saoudite et de 152 autres Etats, est évident et sans réserve. La légitimité
- [Netanyahu stuzzica il sogno di Barak di restare alla Difesa](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-it/netanyahu-stuzzica-il/) - Gerusalemme. Alcuni semplicemente non riescono a stare all’opposizione. E’ il caso di Ehud Barak, leader del Partito laburista israeliano (Avoda) e ministro della Difesa nel governo uscente di Ehud Olmert. Nonostante la sconfitta alle elezioni israeliane del 10 febbraio scorso, si è impegnato in negoziati segreti con Benjamin Netanyahu, il leader del Likud incaricato di
- [Giornalisti contro](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-it/giornalisti-contro/) - Gerusalemme. Come mai Israele si trova sempre sul banco degli imputati, a difendersi da continue accuse sui suoi valori democratici e morali? L'ultimo caso - l'espulsione della Federazione nazionale dei giornalisti israeliani (Fngi) dalla Federazione internazionale dei giornalisti (Fig) - è ancora più esplicativo del fatto che gli accusatori sono sempre veloci sul grilletto quando
- [Cos’è un “luogo santo”](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-it/cose-un-luogo-santo/) - Uno degli ostacoli principali nelle trattative verso un accordo di pace permanente tra Israeliani e Palestinesi riguarda lo stato dei luoghi santi di Gerusalemme. Introdurre però elementi religiosi in negoziati tra parti che si dichiarano secolari è come posizionare una bomba nella stanza dove avvengono le trattative. L’uso del termine “santo” tende a trasferire il
- [Bibi indossa il mantello da Grande unificatore per governare](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-it/bibi-indossa-il-mantello/) - Gerusalemme. La poltrona di pelle nel centro dell’assemblea della Knesset non è una novità per Benjamin Netanyahu. Dopo aver giurato ieri con il suo nuovo governo, realizzerà la sua ambizione e occuperà di nuovo il posto di premier, quello che aveva lasciato esattamente dieci anni fa. Poco prima dell’inizio della seduta inaugurale il premier incaricato
- [Un país en cuestión](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-es/un-pais-en-cuestion/) - "Nadie hace un favor a Israel proclamando su derecho a existir", escribió Abba Eban, en un artículo de noviembre de 1981 en el New York Times. "El derecho de Israel a existir, así como el de los Estados Unidos, Arabia Saudí y otros 152 estados, es evidente y sin reservas. La legitimidad de Israel no
- [Toaff lucha por su buen nombre](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/bio-es/toaff-lucha-por-su-nombre/) - Durante las dos semanas pasadas el catedrático Ariel Toaff ha utilizado, más de una vez, una declaración que es atribuida a Alfred Dreyfus. "El dinero no me importa, dijo el oficial francés de origen judío, pero que alguien cuestione mi buen nombre se lleve todo lo que tengo." Y es por este buen nombre, por
- [Anti-Semitism and Holocaust](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/holocaust-and-anti-semitism/) - Array
- [Jewish-Catholic Relationships](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/catholic-jewish-relationship/) - Array
- [Culture](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/culture/) - Array
- [Economics](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/economics/) - Array
- [Investigations & Interviews](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/) - Array
- [Voyage to South America - Part 5](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/voyage-to-south-america-part-5/) - BUENOS AIRES and MONTEVIDEO. They were nine - the "nine prisoners," as they were known. Nine men around forty years old, leaders of the Tupamaro underground movement, who were imprisoned and tortured by the military regime in Uruguay. Nine men who spent 12 years of their lives in moldy cells, in solitary confinement, cut off
- [Voyage to South America - Introduction](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/international/hour-of-the-downtrodden/) - SAO PAULO. In an ocean of lights, great black patches. Blacker than black. From the plane, this is the view of Sao Paulo, the largest and richest city in South America. A stunning view of a city three times the size of metropolitan Paris and with a population three times that of Israel. We circle
- [In Holland, it's worse](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/in-holland-its-worse/) - "I thought it was part of the past," says Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt with a smile, referring to the attempt by some people in his country to put Ariel Sharon on trial for war crimes in their courts. The affair, which marred Israeli-Belgian relations and even caused Israel to recall its ambassador from Brussels,
- [Between Haider and a hard place](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/between-haider/) - BRUSSELS - On a hot day in late June, the only way to escape the heat was to jump into the cold water of one of the city's swimming pools. Such was the scene on Sunday, June 26, at the outdoor De Molen pool on the western side of the city, a particularly popular pool
- [Enough political correctness](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/enough-political-correctness/) - "Islam is now the No. 1 enemy not only of Europe, but of the entire free world. There are already 25 million to 30 million Muslims on Europe's soil and this becomes a threat. It's a real Trojan horse. I think it is an illusion to think that a moderate Islam exists in Europe. What
- [Sobering lessons](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/sobering-lessons/) - PALO ALTO, California - The living room of Eliane Karp Toledo's home is a perfect setting for her contradiction-filled life. Almost nothing in it matches anything else. A wooden armchair upholstered in blue fabric with white dots stands across from a metal armchair with heavy leather upholstery. A massive, dark brown grandfather clock, like the
- [The gospel according to Allam](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/the-gospel-according-to-allam/) - Magdi Allam, the most famous Muslim in Italy, and one of the leading and most courageous intellectuals in Europe today, converted to Christianity last Saturday night. The fact that the baptism was held at Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome during Easter midnight Mass - the so-called "mother of all masses" - and was performed by
- [The Russian empire strikes back](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/the-russian-empire-strikes/) - Exactly 40 years ago, on a hot August day in 1968, Alexander Dubcek stood looking out his office window as thousands of Soviet soldiers poured into his city, Prague. The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the architect of the "Prague Spring" knew it was only a matter of time until he
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- [Countdown to the Holocaust](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/catholic-jewish-relationship/countdown-to-the-holocaust/) - On September 18, when the Vatican library reopens after the summer recess, the secret archive of Pope Pius XI, who headed the Catholic Church from 1922-1939, will be open to the public - for the first time. The archive consists of millions of documents, apparently mostly in Italian, part of the magnificent library on some
- [Arab-Israeli Conflict](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/israeli-arab-conflict/) - Array
- [In the footsteps of the al-Dura controversy](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/al-dura-controversy/) - If you ask Philippe Karsenty what he needs all this for, he'll say: "I'm just the messenger." Karsenty, a 41-year-old French Jew and a well-to-do financial consultant, says his goal is to let the entire world know how distorted the reports about Israel are in the French media. The issue that sparked his campaign -
- [Before it's too late](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/before-its-too-late/) - Justice Dorner: I thank you very much, it is important that you came. Mrs. Batia Pichotka: Your honor, can I ask if this will help us, all the things we are... Justice Dorner: I don't know, we will write a report. (From the testimony of Holocaust survivor Batia Pichotka, March 12, 2008) About 40 Holocaust
- ['The lie is being perpetuated as the truth'](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/special-reportage/lie-is-perpetuated-as-truth/) - For weeks, Reuven Merhav slept only fitfully. Distraught by the film made by Orly Vilnai-Federbush and Guy Meroz, "Musar hashilumim" ("The Morals of Restitution: The Struggle Continues"), he woke up at three o'clock every night and wandered about his home in a daze. The well-known words from the verdict in the trial of Rudolf Kastner
- [All we have left](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/culture/all-we-have-left/) - If walls could talk, they might be able to tell Aryeh Ben-Yisrael a thing or two. If the floor upon which he walks today in the office building he owns in the heart of Tel Aviv could open its mouth, it might be able to remind him of the huge debt that he, the city
- [Will the real Pessoa please stand up](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/culture/will-the-real-pessoa/) - They can pray over my coffin in Latin if they want to: they can dance and sing around it if they wish. I have no preference for a time when I shall no longer be able to have preferences - Alberto Caeiro (Transl. Hubert D. Jennings) At 11 A.M. on December 2, 1935, a large
- [The nine lives of the Lorenz Cafe](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/culture/the-nine-lives-of-lorenz-cafe/) - Like a stubborn and battle-scarred Prussian sergeant, the two-story house stands on 57 Eilat Street in Tel Aviv. Its days of glory are behind it, and nobody in the neighborhood appreciates it any more. All its decorations have been removed: The windows on the second floor are exposed to the wind, two rusty eaves twist
- [Mixing business with pleasure](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/economics/mixing-business-with-pleasure/) - The state visit to Israel by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni included a delegation of more than 100 French businesspeople, among them chairmen and directors of huge companies. In the wake of a decade during which Israel was perceived as a nuisance in France's corridors of power, the French business community
- ['Israeli Miracle' developing strong ties with China](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/economics/israeli-miracle-china/) - Starting this afternoon and for the next 17 days, the gaze of the entire world will be set on the vast stadiums built by China during the past few years. Every TV screen will show the same image: The China of 2008 is a superpower, whose engineering projects and infrastructure are on a scale difficult
- [Paradise Regained](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/economics/paradise-regained/) - After 29 years as a city dweller, Boaz Alon came back last September to his native land in kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon, between Tel Aviv and Haifa. It’s not that he didn’t make it in the city, or that he had nowhere else to go. On the contrary, he says, “Now, for the first time, I
- [Profits of peace](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/economics/profits-of-peace/) - A new government is taking shape in Israel and a new American leader hopes to shift the deadlock in Middle East peace negotiations. But the prospects are not looking good. The recent air strikes on Gaza and Hamas’s relentless rocket attacks on Israel have left many feeling that peace is now farther from reach than
- [This city is cardinal to him](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/catholic-jewish-relationship/this-city-is-cardinal-to-him/) - "Likrat yerushalayim: Masa el shoresheha hayehudi'im shel hanatzrut" ("Verso Gerusalemme") by Carlo Maria Martini, translated from the Italian by Dov Ancona, Carmel, 189 pages, NIS 78 It's not every day that a cardinal publishes a book in Hebrew. Carlo Maria Martini's "Verso Gerusalemme," which came out in Italian in 2002 and has been translated now
- [Rewriting history in the name of the Father ](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/catholic-jewish-relationship/rewriting-history/) - At the end of the visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the synagogue in Cologne last Friday, an elderly Jew wrapped in a prayer shawl walked up to his car and kissed the window. It may have been the only emotional expression of the brief visit. The current pope has a cold and reserved style,
- [Bad blood](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/catholic-jewish-relationship/bad-blood/) - What exactly happened in the clash between the Vatican and Israel last month, which culminated two weeks ago with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon writing a letter to the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano? From the Israeli perspective, the conflict appears simple enough and is due to the fact that the Pope did not
- [The silence of the shepherd](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/catholic-jewish-relationship/the-silence-of-the-shepherd/) - In the second half of October 1943, several thousand of Rome's Jews were arrested by the German SS and incarcerated in a detention camp. The road leading from the Jewish ghetto on the banks of the Tiber to the Collegio Militare ran by the edge of St. Peter's Square. If Pope Pius XII had looked
- [So unwelcome in his home](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/holocaust-and-anti-semitism/so-unwelcome-in-his-home/) - The Italian community in Israel is a small and intimate group. There are no more than 3,000 people who were born in Italy, and altogether the community numbers about 10,000 - counting spouses and children. Somehow everyone knows just about everyone, whether as family or as friends. This one is that one's cousin, she is
- [The roar of the 'lioness'](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/holocaust-and-anti-semitism/the-roar-of-the-lioness/) - Thousands of letters written by Nobel literature laureate Sigrid Undset during World War II waited 60 years to see the light of day again. Awarded the prize in 1928, the Norwegian novelist was known as the "lioness" and as the "queen of Nordic literature." Her portrait still appears on her country's 500-kroner notes. But until
- [How Belgium sacrificed its Jews to the Nazis](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/holocaust-and-anti-semitism/how-belgium-sacrificed/) - The first question that must be asked is why this has taken so long. About three weeks ago, 62 years after the end of World War II, a committee of historians appointed by the Belgian government published a comprehensive report on the role of the Belgian authorities in the persecution and deportation of the Jews
- [Purging itself of the purges?](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/holocaust-and-anti-semitism/purging-itself/) - The Six-Day War caught Vera Lechtman quite far from Israel. At that time she was a young pediatrician from Mragowo, a small provincial town in northeastern Poland not far from the border with Belarus and Lithuania (at that time part of the Soviet Union). On a small television, the only one at the hospital, she
- [A celebrity at the age of 92](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/holocaust-and-anti-semitism/celebrity-at-92/) - When Mimi Reinhard was born, Franz Josef was still "His Imperial and Royal Majesty, the Kaiser." The city where she was born, Vienna, was still the cosmopolitan capital of a huge empire that stretched from Sarajevo to Prague, from the Adriatic Sea to the banks of the Dniester. Jews still felt relatively secure in this
- [A courageous journey](https://www.adi-schwartz.com/holocaust-and-anti-semitism/a-courageous-journey/) - "The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History" by Katrin Himmler, translated from German into English by Michael Mitchell, Macmillan, 352 pages, 14.99 pounds sterling The media in the United States recently reported the story of an elderly American Jew, a Holocaust survivor, the resident of a well-to-do California suburb. One day a new tenant, also

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