Likud and Netanyahu Have Forgotten You, Boston Israelis Say

The article says many Israelis abroad, especially in Boston, feel increasingly disconnected from politics back home. It argues that the Bennett-Lapid partnership exposed a harsher reality, that Israeli liberals are "everything but liberal," and that the emotional gap between the public and the political establishment is widening.

One Boston Israeli quoted in the piece says people there are deeply frustrated. "People here are very disappointed. I feel the unrest," the article reports, capturing the sense that even Israelis who built successful lives overseas still care intensely about events in Israel.

The wider package of related commentary and features in the text ranges from a profile of Shi Kaplan, who traveled to India with a brain tumor and accepted her fate before discovering yoga, to a note about Israelis in Boston thriving in high-tech and elite institutions but still feeling something is missing. It also mentions a protest issue in Israel involving about 1,000 pilots and flight attendants being prevented from voting, a fire that destroyed centuries-old olive trees in Tzipori, and an opinion piece by Tzvi Bar'el about Erdogan drawing a Middle East map that casts Israel as the main threat.

Other items referenced include criticism of Trump by Bar'el, a cultural recommendation by Gili Izikovitz about finding resonance with a work when ideology divides lovers, and a music recommendation from Niv Hadash about an album that immediately captured attention. The text ends with a Holocaust testimony quotation from Ran Levi Talbi, who says the world demanded proof of genocide through the bodies, and a personal confession by Talia Benon Tzur about her relationship with his Russian partner.