Current sectionArt & CultureShare 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 formatSubscribeA party in Tel Aviv, 2023 (the people pictured are not mentioned in the article). Credit: Itai RonAn article in Current Affairs portrays Israel's club and trance scene as a place where Israelis seek to drown out the sound of their victims. But there's something crucial the author fails to hear03:56 PM • August 12 2026 IDTIn the late 1990s, we briefly entertained the idea that club culture could offer an ideological alternative to the Israeli reality. A kind of existence within an existence, with rules of its own, based neither on existing conventions nor on Zionist history or Jewish tradition. Something entirely new, created within four dark walls or under the open sky, with repetitive electronic music pulsing at a rapid beat from night until morning.In the NewsIsraelis Don't Dance to Forget What They've Committed. Sometimes They Just DanceShe Documents Settler Arson Attacks: 'This Fire Will Be Turned Against Us Too'When Tourists Were Still Coming Here: A Tour of Israel's Hotels 70 Years AgoThis Gay Jewish Dutch Writer Was Repulsed by Zionism. It Cost Him His LifeFrom Jerusalem to Haifa: 15 Recommended Cafés Open on ShabbatRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMI50 Years Ago, a Young Israeli Was Crowned the Most Beautiful Woman in the WorldIsrael's Leading Philosopher on Manipulation, Morality and the Future of ZionismWho Is Rebeca Grynspan, the Jewish Frontrunner to Become the Next UN Chief?How a Teen, Not a Journalist, Debunked Israel's Gaza 'Voluntary Emigration' Plan'I Saw Pictures of Dead Kids. In the Army They Told Us We Only Kill Terrorists'Israel Elections: How to Actually Read the Polls