Day 1,393: eerie

You can get a taste of this from the turmoil of recent weeks: a constitutional crisis over judicial independence triggered by the right-wing government of Binyamin Netanyahu; an eerie power vacuum in the stagnant West Bank; and the rules of the old American-led order being shredded as Saudi Arabia, Iran and China cut new deals.

As Israel turns 75, its biggest threats now come from within

Artwork of the day 
Τhe strange light
George Mavroides
Date: 1984
Style: Expressionism
Genre: genre painting

Word of the day 
eerie: strange in a frightening and mysterious way

Quote of the day
“You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena