Politics & Society

The year the Israeli-Arab conflict officially began

How the violent Palestinian uprising of August 1929 was a watershed moment for the Jews and Arabs in Palestine, and for the entire world.

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And the Lord said to Moses (thought bubble)

We review a new exhibition in Holon that tells the Bible stories in caricatures, and ponder the link between cartoons and Judaism.

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Partition ambition

An economist has proposed slicing Israel up into two states: A progressive, secular state called “Dan” and a benighted, religious state called “Judaea.”

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If I Divide Thee, O Jerusalem…

A shocking new poll shows that 56 percent of Israelis wish to transfer Arab majority neighborhoods in Jerusalem to the hands of the Palestinian Authority.

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Had Rabin lived…

.. what world would be be living in today? We mark, with sadness, 20 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

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Who really killed Rabin?

Alarming polls show that one third of all Israelis and half of religious Israeli Jews do not believe that Prime Minister Rabin was killed by Yigal Amir.

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