In the shadow of the weird retro-futurist spire of the Marganit Tower in Tel Aviv, where the war cabinet under Benjamin Netanyahu plots further bloody operations in Gaza, a strange grey construction made of sheet metal and cement snakes down the centre of the newly named Hostage Square.

Here various arts installations express Israelis’ pain over what many citizens claim is the only remaining casus belli for their nation’s continuing — and widely condemned — military operations in Gaza. Not revenge for the hundreds murdered, not the crushing of Hamas, but the return of the remaining estimated 93 hostages and of the bodies of the 41 killed, including by Israeli bombing...

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