Calev Ben-Dor

As three stars became visible in the cloudless Tel Aviv sky, signaling the end of the first day of the Sukkot holiday, the heaviness of the 7 October anniversary suddenly struck me. Soon afterwards, I began watching the Families’ Memorial Service in HaYarkon Park in Tel Aviv. The memorial was organised by Kumu (Rise!), a movement founded by families of victims, hostages, and survivors of the Hamas attack.

In this impassioned opinion piece, Fathom editor Jack Omer-Jackaman protests the campaign to impeach MK Ayman Odeh, instigated by the Israeli right and thus far supported by much of the liberal centre. The case against Odeh is non-existent, Omer-Jackaman argues, and the process represents a political witch-hunt and the disenfranchisement of Odeh’s voters.

Diary from Jerusalem | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | Israel’s Secular Days of Awe tweet share email print There is a rhythm to this Land. Not a melody exactly – But a pulse. A thrum beneath the stones and sun-scorched hills, beneath the eucalyptus smoke and rosemary, beneath our ribs. Some days, it sounds like prayer. Other days, like warning. During these days – between Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut, between the silence of memory and wail of the sirens – I tried to listen closely.