Almog Behar

Ishaq Bar-Moshe in Iraq. (Courtesy of Bar Moshe's family)

The Mizrahi author whose book Mahmoud Abbas wants to distribute

Ishaq Bar-Moshe started writing in Arabic two decades after he emigrated from Iraq to Israel. The language aroused deep antipathy in Israel — but Bar-Moshe was undeterred.

By Naomi Niddam November 8, 2019

Immigrants from Iraq and Kurdistan exit their plane on arrival in Israel, having flown via Tehran, late spring 1951. (Teddy Brauner, GPO)

Iraqis want their Jewish neighbors back

Months after a Shiite cleric who won the parliamentary elections in Iraq said Jews “are welcome,” an online poll on the matter suggests that Iraqis are ready to discuss the right of return – more than Israelis are. By Meron Rapoport “Iraq’s Jews: 70 years after their expulsion, they seek to return to Iraq and become citizens…

By +972 Magazine August 30, 2018

Alternative Israeli banknote designs featuring Alternative Israeli banknote designs featuring Arab-Jewish, writers, singers and poets. (Design: Eitam Tubul)

Towards a new understanding of Arab-Jewish culture

The severed ties between Arab-Jewish culture and the wider history and culture of Judaism and the Arab world are being repaired by a groundbreaking new university degree in Israel. By Hadas Shabat-Nadir and Almog Behar In the 1950s, Professor Shlomo Dov Goitein suggested establishing a chair of Arab-Jewish culture at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. But…

By Haokets December 9, 2016

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Burned books from the collection of Gaza poet Othman Hussein (photo: Maysoon Hussein)

POEMS: After a night full of missiles in Gaza

Gaza-based poet Manal Miqdad wrote the following poem after a particularly violent and sleepless night in Gaza during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge. Israeli poet Almog Behar penned a response, dedicated to Miqdad. After a night full of missiles, crying and fear, the sheet of the sky opens its heart to the light By Manal Miqdad…

By Haokets August 14, 2014