A new poll finds that most Israelis favor cancelling universal conscription and turning the IDF into a “professional army.” Is the IDF still a “People’s army”?

By closing its borders, is Israel turning diaspora Jews into “second-class Jews”?

President Yitzhak Herzog lights candles with settlers in Hebron, causing protestors on the left to cry, “He’s not my president.”

If Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, does that mean that all the government needs to be there?

New models say in 2050, one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox, but does that maybe tell us more about the models than it does about the ultra-Orthodox?

Israel’s Education Minister decides not to give the country’s biggest prize to a genius computer theorist because he petitioned the EU to boycott an Israeli university in the territories

Can “traditionalism” (mesoratiut) reshape Israeli politics as we know it?

Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel’s new proposed term-limit law is the sort of law you’d see in Iran, Syria and North Korea. Does he have a point?

A major new essay by Haaretz’s Anshel Pfeffer asks, “Who and what killed the Israeli left?”

A supermarket chain charges ultra-Orthodox shoppers a lot less than the rest of us. Is this discrimination, or just market forces doing what they do?