False Dichotomies

False Dichotomies is proud to present a new feature – Friday Thoughts. This is off-the-cuff reflections on the week gone by. As such, I won’t be doing so much fact-checking or linking, so please forgive the inevitable errors.

Julian Soufir, a French immigrant, did Shlav Bet the mahzor before me. Then he cut the throat of an Arab taxi driver in Tel Aviv. This week a Tel Aviv District Court ruled that he was unfit to stand trial, as he had been insane at the time of the murder. Instead, he will be locked away in a psychiatric institution. Read more