History books will almost certainly point to November 5, 2024 as a pivotal day in Israel's history, and not because of the US elections

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Nov 6, 2024 · 1m

Remember this photograph, which all of us Israelis saw live on TV last night as Yoav Gallant saluted the soldiers still fighting, after he was fired by Netanyahu.

Prediction: this is one of those iconic photos that will be in the history books, assuming that last night was the beginning of what many people here fear it was.

We had planned, as we noted yesterday, to post Part II of our conversation with Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, and we will of course still do that. But last night was a history-making moment, and I’m not referring to the American elections, which will almost certainly have an…