Current sectionOpinionShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeUri Misgav02:27 AM • August 06 2026 IDTItamar Ben-Gvir and Idit Silman are standing on a wooden platform that looks like it is about to fall. Below them is a water-filled ditch, to their left is a wing of Ketziot prison. A sudden desert wind lifts up his knitted kippah and causes her skirt to flutter. Loading...Click the alert icon to follow topics:IDFBenjamin NetanyahuItamar Ben-GvirOctober 7CommentsLoading...In the NewsIn the News: Live UpdatesMichigan PrimaryCori BushGazaHezbollahNetanyahuDavid BarneaElection PollsHaQuizHaaretz PodcastFreeing Rabin's Killer Is No Longer Unthinkable in Violence-infested IsraelPolice Officer Faces Indictment in Fatal Shooting of Bedouin Man in South IsraelA Teenager Exposed the Truth Behind Israel's Gaza 'Voluntary Emigration' PlanFrom Umm al-Fahm to Tel Aviv, Israel Police Are Policing PoliticsA Century After Herzl's Death, His Grandparents Are Laid to Rest in IsraelRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThis Israeli ultra-Orthodox Feminist Activist Has a Warning for U.S. JewsHow Israel's Elbit Armed the United Arab Emirates'I Tried, I Got Crushed by AIPAC': Andy Levin Is All-in for El-SayedDozens of IDF Soldiers Desert Sde Teiman Base in Protest of CommanderIt's No Wonder Israelis Want War. Violence Has Become a Source of JoyIsrael Captured 230 Square Miles of Lebanon, Razed Villages and Built New Bases