Why are so many Israeli Jews spying for Iran?

Unprecedented numbers are risking everything to help their country’s bitterest enemy

Mordechai Maman, an Israeli in his early 70s known as Moti, was used to disappointment. His marriage had failed long ago, as had various business ventures, leaving him permanently strapped for cash. But at the start of 2024 he had reason to feel optimistic. His four grown-up children were doing well, he had acquired two new business partners, and he was in love.

1843 | Dope and glory: inside the Enhanced Games

Athletes want to break records. The founders hope to take performance-boosting drugs mainstream

1843 | Grate expectations: the troubled quest for tasty vegan cheese

The plant-based boom failed to deliver. But there may yet be hope

1843 | Reform’s pub crawl to power

It’s not easy to satisfy the working class and the super-rich. But do they both just want to have fun?

1843 | The horsemen of the West Bank

Palestinians brave checkpoints and gunfire to see their favourite Arabian stallions compete

1843 | The Republican congressman taking on Trump

Thomas Massie has launched a one-man rebellion from Kentucky

1843 | How do you replace 40 million dead vultures?

The scavengers are vital for public health in India. But politics is interfering with efforts to breed them