Most politicians, journalists, professors and other professional gadflies are acting like an “Amen corner” as Prime Minister Netanyahu steers the country through the crisis. Has the time come to be more critical?

We survived a near-miss constitutional crisis, as the Chairperson of the Knesset pondered ignoring a ruling of the Supreme Court. Did Israeli democracy just almost shatter into pieces?

A revered 92 year old rabbi decided to keep ultra-Orthodox schools open, in defiance of the Prime Minister and Health Minister, because studying Torah is our best protection from the coronavirus. Now what?

At 1 a.m., Netanyahu’s cabinet decides to grant the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service, the power to track COVID-19 sufferers and, along the way, the rest of us, too. Do desperate times demand such desperate measures, or is this a step (way) too far?

Blue-&-White leader Benny Gantz is given the “mandate” to form Israel’s government. Now what?

Is Benny Gantz right to try to form a “minority government” coalition that would be eleven (count ’em!) votes smaller than the opposition?

Nowhere in the world responded quicker and more forcefully to the coronavirus than Israel. What’s that tell us about Israel’s political culture?

Has the time come for Israel’s center-left to accept that Benjamin Netanyahu is going to continue as Israel’s Prime Minister, even as he’s tried for bribery, fraud and corruption?

What, if anything, can we learn from this week’s elections about the hearts and minds, hopes and dreams, of Israeli voters?

Ultra-Orthodox politicians say secular and modern-Orthodox folks should vote for them, because they’re the only ones really fighting for what everyone wants: good health care, good transportation, an end to poverty, and such. Can ultra-Orthodox politicians break through to the mainstream?