It's easy to forget about the Middle East's problems in the bubble of Tel Aviv. But images of civilians killed in a chemical attack on a Damascus suburb reminded Gabriel Sassoon that the bubble is just an illusion and he had better go collect his gas mask. Just in case.
Tel Aviv is known locally as "the Bubble," and, sometimes, the “state of Tel Aviv.” I prefer “republic of Tel Aviv,” but aesthetics aside, it is a small city that resembles Greenwich Village on steroids, and entirely differentiated from the rest of the country in the same way that New...
