Tamar Raphael was born in 1989 in Petah Tikva, lived in Tel Aviv until 2022, and currently resides in Berlin. In 2021, she published the poetry collection Receding Songs (Hava La’Or) and won the Minister of Culture Prize for emerging poets. In 2024, she published her debut novel, There Were Two With Nothing to Do […]
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It was difficult to explain the true nature of her journey. After some deliberation, she decided to mention it only in passing: for her fortieth birthday, she would take a kind of pilgrimage in Sigmund Freud’s footsteps. The phrasing drew a ripple of amused smiles around the birthday table, and Alona quietly signaled for her […]
Dr. Orna Reuven (PhD) is a clinical psychologist and supervising psychoanalyst, a lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, and an author. Her publications include People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms (IPBooks 2023), a modern epistolary novel written in two voices (co-authored with Yair Eldan), which portrays a psychologist and patient caught in an impossible situation. Orna lives […]
Yam Traiber is a writer and translator. Her debut book, “Veins of an Orange,” was published by Pardes in 2025. She’s currently a PhD student in comparative literature at Harvard University. Her research explores family narratives and national crises in Italian and Hebrew literature. Her short stories won the Harshon Prize (2020), and her work […]
1. I loved the subject very much. What made me love it even more was Mr. Emad, the teacher. He would laugh with us and tell us many stories that made us love the lesson. And every time he came to class, he brought a globe with him, showing us the seas, oceans, hills, and […]
A pregnant woman lays naked in a bathtub filled with amber water. She has a serene yet intense expression, with her eyes slightly open and her head tilted back. The lighting is warm and moody. It emphasizes the contours of her slender body and her prominent pregnant belly. Her long black hair unfolds reassuringly in […]
Danielle Zilberberg is a writer, editor, translator, and communications leader. A founding member of the literary and intellectual magazine Alaxon, she has written and edited for Haaretz and other art publications, blending literary criticism, cultural commentary, and journalism. For the past decade, she has worked in high-tech marketing and currently leads communications at Simply. In […]
“He’s alive!” Member Ma`ayan entered the room at a run. “He’s healthy, I heard him cry. It’s a Harvest Festival miracle. Didn’t you see the texts?” The faces of the five members of the Committee who were assembled in the conference room glowed, but a moment later they donned an enigmatic expression. They looked at […]
Nadav Neuman is a writer, born in 1988. He holds a master’s degree in the history and philosophy of science and ideas from Tel Aviv University. He has published two books of poetry so far, and his debut novel is set to be published in 2025. He writes about the weird parts of life, the […]
My father believed in Marxist karma as a thrilling destiny that was tailored to the measurements of his short, solid body. He viewed the world through defiant, eroding eyes, as if endowed with the ability to discern an elusive spark of truth in the darkness. When he would focus his gaze on me, I felt […]
I knew that Hertz and his wife could not possibly be home at this hour. I even had a note ready in my purse: “Came by but found you were out. So sorry. Shoshana”. It was a good thing, for it could save me from paying a dreary duty call to this house for another […]
The summer I fell in love with AI was also the summer I fell in love with N, and the two weren’t unrelated. Early that summer, a machine N had built kept popping up in my feed. My reaction was normal: I ignored it, then liked it, and by the third time I saw it, […]
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