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Matti Friedman
Matti Friedman is a Jerusalem-based columnist for The Free Press. He’s the author of five nonfiction books, including Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe, just published by Spiegel & Grau.
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How ‘The New York Times’ Laundered a Conspiracy
Matti Friedman and Dan Senor on how Nicholas Kristof’s ‘New York Times’ column reflects a press corps that increasingly sees activism as its core…
May 14, 2026
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Introduction to Gazology
A new literary genre refashions the ruins of Gaza into a dark political parable with a familiar villain.
April 21, 2026
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The Jewish Volunteers Who Returned to Nazi Europe
In 1944, Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine parachuted into occupied Europe. Their official task was to help the Allies. Their real hope was to…
March 26, 2026
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Matti Friedman: Israel Had a Disorienting 2025. What Comes Next?
As the world’s attention moves away from the Jewish State, its people are left to pick up the pieces.
December 23, 2025
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Jews and Christians at ‘the End of Time’
To understand our own era, go back 2,000 years.
October 22, 2025
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They Are Home
For two dark and often hopeless years, Israelis rallied to keep the hostages in the headlines. It worked.
October 13, 2025
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Matti Friedman: Is Gaza Starving? Searching for the Truth in an Information War.
When I asked a former senior government official if there is mass hunger among Gazans, he answered me honestly: ‘I don’t know.’
July 27, 2025
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At the Symbol of Israeli Science, a Cost Too Vast to Calculate
Israelis are emerging from the shelters to assess the damage of 12 days of war. At the Weizmann Institute, the cost is impossible to measure.
June 30, 2025
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Matti Friedman: After the Bombs
American B-2s just changed the Middle East. Now it’s time to return the region to the humans who live here.
June 22, 2025
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Bombs Rain Down—and a Divided Israel Unites Behind the War
Israelis have lost many things since October 7. One is the idea that the West is coming to save us. No one will wage this necessary battle but us.
June 15, 2025
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Matti Friedman: A Siren. And a New Middle East.
It’s a cliché to say that the Middle East is at a turning point. But sometimes it’s true. June 13, 2025, is one of those times.
June 13, 2025
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Matti Friedman: What the Kibbutz Can Teach Israel on Its 77th Birthday
Of the 400 residents of Nir Oz, a quarter were either kidnapped or killed by Hamas on October 7. Now, they rebuild.
May 1, 2025
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