Gershom Gorenberg

Gershom Gorenberg is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He is an Israeli journalist and historian whose most recent book is War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis From the Middle East.

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  1. Lebanon Is Not a Solution for Gaza

    Now Israel is fighting the war it planned for—alongside the one it refused to see coming and still hasn’t brought to an end.

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    Illustration by Allison Zaucha / The Atlantic. Sources: Rabih Daher / AFP / Getty; Sean Gallup / Getty; Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu / Getty.
  2. Netanyahu’s Other War

    Conflict in Gaza hasn’t put an end to Israel’s constitutional crisis.

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    Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Haim Zach / GPO / Getty; Sean Gallup / Getty.
  3. Jerusalem's Power Broker

    Israeli far-right politician Avigdor Lieberman may have lost out to Benjamin Netanyahu and Tzipi Livni in the race for prime minister. But now he’s poised to throw his support to one of his former rivals—and in effect select the next leader.