From Madness to Insanity

After a long absence, the Biblical Museum of Natural History finally has kosher locusts back in stock (see below for details on how to order them). People who haven’t heard about this famous kosher speciality respond as though it’s something far-out and crazy. But by the standards of what passes as normal in Israel today, it’s positively mundane.

Here in Israel, things are only getting more insane. It emerged as factual that one of the Prime Minister’s aides was receiving payments from Qatar (!)....