Easy rider

Inspector Gadget, your bicycle is ready. Andrew Hamilton has prepared it according to all your needs: It has an advanced battery pack to give you an extra burst for pursuing bad guys, and it folds up nice and small, too, like the impossible tools that you use to catch them. It can even survive a gunfight.

Look who’s talking

Lizzy sure has a big mouth. And it’s dirty, too. Most of what she says can’t be reprinted here – but on YouTube, where Lizzy reigns supreme as the only animated lesbian stand-up comedienne hailing from Israel, the innocent-looking little cartoon character lets her potty mouth fly. Viewers, couldn’t you guess, love it.
“Lizzy is [...]

The good fight

Jeff Hochman has protected America as a soldier, as a policeman, as a federal agent and as a civilian contractor in Iraq. Now he has come to settle down in Israel – and, he hopes, help the country he’s been dreaming of all along.

The pen is mightier…

Uh-oh. The ADL is hysterical about this political cartoon by Pat Oliphant that depicts Israeli soldiers as headless Zio-Nazis, rolling over innocent women and children in Gaza. Prepare for the usual “You can’t criticize Israel without being labelled an anti-Semite” nonsense.
The ADL is right, obviously. This cartoon is terrible. But I’ve seen this kind of thing [...]

It must still be Purim

This is rich — Netanyahu as Robin Hood, taxing the rich to rain money on the poor, and Barak playing the sidekick to Netanyahu. It must still be Purim.

An officer and a gentleman’s club

The whispering campaign against OC Navy Adm. Eliezer Marom is puritanical, misguided and, worst of all, it is utterly irrelevent to the real epidemic of sexual predation that plagues Israel in general, and its armed forces in particular.

To Russia, with lawyers

Oy, Arkadi, make up your mind!
After failing to win over hearts with his purchase of Jerusalem’s main soccer club and his abysmal showing in the mayoral race, Russian-French-Israeli billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak has run off to Russia and is now seeking to renounce his Israeli citizenship in favor of the Russian citizenship he gave up in [...]

Child’s play

Video games are the newest front in the Israeli-Arab conflict

The longshot

As an Israeli horse makes an improbable run at victory in England, the hopes and dreams of Israeli breeders and trainers hang in the balance

Eating themselves up

Fully 40% of Israeli adults are overweight, according to Health Ministry statistics, while another 23% are obese. Thousands are classified as morbidly obese or even superobese. Worse, these numbers are rising all the time.