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Fiber-Optic FPV Drones War
The newest threat to IDF forces operating in southern Lebanon does not streak through the sky at supersonic speed or crash down as a ballistic projectile. It arrives slowly, quietly, and with unnerving precision. Fiber-optic-guided explosive First Person View (FPV) drones are an unassuming yet dangerous evolution in battlefield technology, and their appearance in Lebanon is as predictable as it is troubling. To understand the challenge, one must first understand the system. A
Ari Sacher
Israeli Home Front Realities
My son owns a home in Akko, the top two floors of a three-story building. It is the kind of place Israelis buy when life feels normal: stone, sun, a view, kids running up and down the stairs. It was built before the early 1990s, before the state rewrote its building rules around a hard lesson of the first Gulf War. So it has no safe room, no reinforced concrete “mamad” built into the apartment itself. Since the early 1990s, new Israeli homes have been required to include one,
Ari Sacher
Oz V’Gaon: Building Life
On Thursday night, my wife and I were staying with relatives in Neve Daniel, in Gush Etzion. Like so many Israeli Fridays, the next day unfolded with a quiet simplicity. We drove a few minutes to a place called “Oz V’Gaon” for coffee and a pastry. Families wandered the paths. Children climbed the wooden structures. A steady stream of visitors came and went, as if this place had always been there. But Oz V’Gaon has not always been there. And the story of how it came to be tell
Ari Sacher
Fiber-Optic FPV Drones War
The newest threat to IDF forces operating in southern Lebanon does not streak through the sky at supersonic speed or crash down as a ballistic projectile. It arrives slowly, quietly, and with unnerving precision. Fiber-optic-guided explosive First Person View (FPV) drones are an unassuming yet dangerous evolution in battlefield technology, and their appearance in Lebanon is as predictable as it is troubling. To understand the challenge, one must first understand the system. A
Ari Sacher
2 days ago3 min read
Israeli Home Front Realities
My son owns a home in Akko, the top two floors of a three-story building. It is the kind of place Israelis buy when life feels normal: stone, sun, a view, kids running up and down the stairs. It was built before the early 1990s, before the state rewrote its building rules around a hard lesson of the first Gulf War. So it has no safe room, no reinforced concrete “mamad” built into the apartment itself. Since the early 1990s, new Israeli homes have been required to include one,
Ari Sacher
May 184 min read
Oz V’Gaon: Building Life
On Thursday night, my wife and I were staying with relatives in Neve Daniel, in Gush Etzion. Like so many Israeli Fridays, the next day unfolded with a quiet simplicity. We drove a few minutes to a place called “Oz V’Gaon” for coffee and a pastry. Families wandered the paths. Children climbed the wooden structures. A steady stream of visitors came and went, as if this place had always been there. But Oz V’Gaon has not always been there. And the story of how it came to be tell
Ari Sacher
May 113 min read
The Dreyfus Affair
More than a century ago, on a parade ground in Paris, a Jewish officer stood at the center of a carefully orchestrated humiliation. His name was Captain Alfred Dreyfus. The French Army tore the insignia from his uniform, snapped his sword, and declared him a traitor. His real crime was not espionage. It was that he was a Jew in a system that had already decided the outcome. The Dreyfus Affair is often remembered as a story about antisemitism. It was that. But it was also a st
Ari Sacher
May 43 min read
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