Music and Culture Roundup, from Spielberg to Esther Shamir's Death

This page is a collection of entertainment, opinion, and review items rather than one single news story. It includes a note that Steven Spielberg has returned to aliens in a new work that, according to the writer, asks humanity to become more human. It also reports the death of singer and songwriter Esther Shamir at the age of 71.

Other items on the page discuss the final episodes of "Euphoria" and "The Ex," arguing that they undo what had been carefully built before them. Another piece says a publisher was deeply worried about a book and that legal counsel flagged 400 sentences in it. A separate item reports that one of the Arab world's biggest pop stars was convicted of rape, but his performance will go ahead as planned.

The page also features political and opinion commentary, including one piece by Tzvi Barel saying Erdogan has drawn a Middle East map in which Israel is the main threat, and another arguing that no world leader has been treated as disrespectfully by Donald Trump as this, concluding, "The joke is on us." There is also a review recommendation from Gili Izikovich about identifying with the frustration and disgust of anyone divided from a loved one by an ideological abyss.

Additional recommendations and reviews cover a gripping album, a testimony about surviving genocide and later searching for the bodies to prove it to the world, and a personal account that began with a partner's fascination with "his Russians."