Culture

 This New York Times account of how Benjamin Netanyahu and Mitt Romney have ties that predate their political careers is fascinating. Read the whole thing. They met as young business school grads (Romney of Harvard’s, Bibi of MIT’s) hired as analysts at Boston Consulting Group. The nugget for me, though, comes toward the end: Even […]

Last week, Shaul Mofaz, the new leader of Israel’s largest political party, Kadima, told The New York Times that Israel has bigger fish to fry than Iran’s nuclear program — namely, solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be a higher priority. Two and a half years ago, I sat down with Mofaz for a one-on-one interview […]