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Meeting on a Rock — Necessary Stories in The Times of Israel
Haim Watzman Two estranged friends discover that they betrayed each other one night decades ago. Illustration by Avi KatzSnir bit glumly into his eggplant-and-tahini sandwich and squinted at the sun...
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Turning the Pages — Necessary Stories in The Times of Israel
Haim Watzman My kids don’t listen to me, my life’s total chaos, who will I vote for, and what is this music? illustration by Avi KatzJust as Ekatarina instructed, I walk unobtrusively on to the YMCA...
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The Next to Last Time I Read Etgar Keret — Necessary Stories in The Times of...
Haim Watzman In which I pondering father-son relations while channeling Neil Young and Israel’s second-best writer of short fiction illustration by Avi KatzAvri turns the volume up from loud to...
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How Long, My Lord? — Necessary Stories in The Times of Israel
Haim Watzman A prophetic Necessary Story. Except the prophet is a cat. illustration by Avi Katz After Isaiah 6 “I am a cat of unclean lips!” I give the seraph with the live coal my most bellicose...
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Doors — Necessary Stories in The Times of Israel
Haim Watzman Being alone and being together–Pesach in the time of Corona. illustration by Avi Katz The door opens just enough that I can see a single eye examining me. For a second, I can’t breathe....
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A Detour to Mars from the Jordan Valley — Necessary Stories in The Times of...
Haim Watzman A family in crisis after its first-grader skips school for a space trip. illustration by Avi KatzPaltiel held the plastic container up to the rays of the morning sun coming through the...
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Never Ending Stories–essay in The Tel Aviv Review of Books
Haim Watzman A plaint about the inordinate length of too many contemporary Israeli novels. “Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel,” Miss Prism, the governess, cautions her charge in Oscar...
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August Appearances
Haim Watzman Dear readers, It’s a month of opportunities to hear me talk about translation and writing, two in Zoom and in English and one in person and in Hebrew. “Translating in Nabokov’s Shadow” is...
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The Chair Wins the Warsaw Jewish Theater Institute Award
Haim Watzman “The Theater Institute Award for Haim Watzman’s drama The Chair for: an intimate yet universal capture of Israel’s multicultural contemporary society; for showing invariably important and...
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The Chair — Necessary Stories in The Times of Israel
Haim Watzman What you see and what you might unexpectedly get by gazing through rear windows at election time illustration by Avi KatzIt seemed like an odd place to die, in a hard wooden chair placed...
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