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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Amanda Borschel-Dan is The Times of Israel's Jewish World and Archaeology editor.
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the former head of the research division in the IDF’s Military Intelligence division and former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs outside the Nomi Studios in Jerusalem, June 21, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
June 23, 2023, 5:56 am
What Matters Now to Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: Breaking the terror wave
After a bloody week, a leading intelligence expert analyses recent IDF successes in the West Bank, offers points for improvement and tells us what keeps him up at night
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prof. Mona Khoury, Vice President for Strategy and Diversity, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Sharon Gabay)
June 16, 2023, 5:40 am
What Matters Now to Prof. Mona Khoury: The cycle of violence in Arab communities
With over 100 Arab Israelis dead through violence in the first half of 2023, this academic says it’s time to stop the blame game and start coming up with a comprehensive plan
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dr. Jonathan Spyer on a reporting trip in Mosul, Iraq, September 2017. (courtesy)
June 9, 2023, 5:14 am
What Matters Now to Jonathan Spyer: Iran’s confrontations with its enemies
New alliances thread through Mideast as Syria is re-embraced by the Arab League and Iran signs accords with Saudi Arabia, UAE. This week, we hear of additional looming hotspots
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rachel Gur, director of public policy at Lobby 99, the public lobby. (Courtesy)
June 2, 2023, 6:39 am
What Matters Now to lobbyist Rachel Gur: Why Israel is so #₪@$! expensive
Monopoly isn’t just a board game for Lobby 99’s director of public policy. This week, we hear how a mere handful of powerful companies control prices in almost every sector
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prof. Yair Zakovitch in his Hebrew University of Jerusalem office, May 23, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
May 25, 2023, 6:21 am
What Matters Now to Yair Zakovitch: Using ‘Ruth’ as a blueprint for creative halacha
Israel Prize-winning Bible scholar dives into Shavuot scroll’s meaning, laments lack of biblical literacy in secular society, but sees hope in anti-judicial overhaul demonstrations
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dr. Sara Hirschhorn at Jerusalem's Nomi Studios, May 16, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
May 19, 2023, 9:34 am
What Matters Now to historian Sara Hirschhorn: Extremism is now mainstream
For an American scholar of Israel’s ultranationalistic movements, a research trip that coincides with the Jerusalem flashpoint Flag March couldn’t have been better timed
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The 2,000-year-old inscription bearing the financial record discovered near ancient Jerusalem's Pilgrimage Path. (Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
May 17, 2023, 11:56 am
2,000-year-old ledger found in City of David points to widespread 2nd Temple literacy
Discovered near Pilgrimage Path, inscribed chalkstone slab that appears to be ossuary maker’s accounting record adds to physical evidence of ancient Jerusalem shuk in lower city
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
An Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist checks out pieces of 1,800-year-old marble from a shipwreck off the shore of Beit Yanai in central Israel. (Israel Antiquities Authority's Theft Prevention Unit)
May 15, 2023, 11:43 am
Swimmer discovers precious marble cargo from 1,800-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck
Roman-era raw materials likely came from Turkey and were on their way to a southern Holy Land port; archaeologists hope to find wood remains of ship during excavations next week
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
TOI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur. (Courtesy)
May 12, 2023, 6:51 am
What Matters Now to ToI analyst Haviv Rettig Gur: The political perils of conflict
After the Gaza conflict ends, PM Netanyahu faces another battle — to pass the budget. Once he does, we will learn his true stance on the judicial overhaul
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren at an event celebrating ToI's 10th anniversary, May 1, 2022. (Ariel Jerozolimski)
May 5, 2023, 7:12 am
What Matters Now to veteran journalist Biranit Goren: Media-made parallel universes
Editor of ToI’s Hebrew-language sister site Zman Yisrael says all of PM Netanyahu’s court cases stem from a desire to control Israel’s media. Now he has Ch. 14, his own ‘Fox News’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
McGill University History Prof. Gil Troy in The Times of Israel's offices, April 25, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)
April 28, 2023, 6:03 am
What Matters Now to Prof. Gil Troy: ‘Identity Zionism’ to cure Diaspora’s ‘unJews’
Historian-author expounds on the Zionist trinity of Jewish peoplehood, Land of Israel and modern state, and how young Diaspora Jews can use it as a vehicle of self-actualization
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Former Justice Ministry director-general Emi Palmor is now a member of the select Meta Oversight Board and head of the nonprofit PTSD organization Natal. (courtesy)
April 21, 2023, 9:01 am
What Matters Now to past Justice head Emi Palmor: A stronger post-crisis Israel
A lecturer on government policy serving on Meta’s ‘Supreme Court,’ the 24-year Justice Ministry insider explains what needs to be fixed – but the cure isn’t the judicial overhaul
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem. (Alex Kolomoisky)
April 14, 2023, 7:20 am
What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: Warsaw Ghetto Jews were divided, too
Performing a delicate balancing act, former politician polices world leaders’ rhetoric, protects against historical distortion and plans to open a new education center in Germany
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Ariel University's Dr. Yonatan Adler. (courtesy)
April 5, 2023, 7:39 am
What Matters Now to archaeologist Prof. Yonatan Adler: The origins of Judaism
Ariel University prof discusses his ‘excavation’ into the evidence for the practice of the Jewish religion – and points to when we know with certainty that Passover was observed
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The seven-letter 10th-century BCE inscription in Ancient South Arabian script on a pithos from the Ophel. (photo: Daniel Vainstub; all rights reserved © Dr. Eilat Mazar; after Mazar 2015)
April 3, 2023, 4:02 pm
Newly deciphered inscription gives clue to biblical Queen of Sheba’s Jerusalem visit
Discovered at the Ophel adjacent to the Temple Mount, seven letters on clay jar sherd are written in dialect and script stemming from the Arabian Peninsula, epigrapher suggests
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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