Day 1,927: temper, undergird

What Israel needs, however, is long-term bipartisan support from America, tempered with counsels of restraint.

In Israel, the settler movement and its toxic politics imperil the open values that undergird the country’s high-tech economy.

The year that shattered the Middle East

Artwork of the day 
Tempered Elan
Wassily_Kandinsky
Date: 1944; Paris, France
Style: Abstract Art
Genre: abstract
Media: oil, cardboard
Location: Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France
Dimensions: 42 x 58 cm

Word of the day 
temper: to make something less strong, extreme, etc.:
undergird: to support something by forming a strong base for it:

Quote of the day
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

― Charles Dickens