Can We Predict the Future? A Look at How Prediction Is Becoming Possible

The Hebrew text presents a set of short opinion and feature items under one umbrella headline, centered on the idea that predicting the future may be becoming more realistic. It says research shows people cannot be persuaded to change political views, but suggests there may be another way, and notes that it is time to revisit a forgotten chapter of history, including the claim that Israel expelled 300,000 people in the 1967 Nakba.

Other items mention a court ruling that it is permitted to kick an adult lying on the ground, criticism of expecting lecturers to discuss politics in class, and an argument that Jews are not more criminal than others but lack self-criticism. There are also lighter culture and lifestyle pieces, including coffee choice, a note that the IDF is the sharpest army in the world, a profile of Sebastian Ben-Daniel (John Brown), and a story about a child who damaged Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees at the Israel Museum.

Additional items touch on singer Yishai Levi, a midlife love story by Shaked Benshen, and a podcast question about why tahini thickens when water is added, especially cold water.