Killer and Hero
The twist of logic and emotion that leads some Israelis to regard the combat medic who shoots a motionless injured Palestinian terrorist in the head, a hero.
Read MoreThe twist of logic and emotion that leads some Israelis to regard the combat medic who shoots a motionless injured Palestinian terrorist in the head, a hero.
Read MoreIs it better for democracy to have an army censor who’s in our face, or one who expects that we censor ourselves (or maybe option C, no censor at all!)
Read MoreThe moral and political dilemma arising from the Minister of Defense’s decision to excommunicate a rabbi for advising soldiers to ignore orders to evacuate settlements.
Read MoreThe weird state of the Israeli government, which seems to be, at once, on the verge of collapse and surprisingly stable: What gives?
Read MoreNew Pew poll findings suggest that Israeli and American Jews may be two peoples separated by the same religion, with the rift growing wider by the moment.
Read MoreWhy we Israelis are strangely unmoved by the success of that most Jewy of US Presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders.
Read MoreA new poll finds that 48% of Israeli Jews believe that, under certain defined circumstances, Palestinians ought to be expelled from Israel.
Read MoreA dumb-ass satire of MK Stav Shaffir on the Jewish Heritage TV channel struck some on the left as sexual harassment, leading some on the right to cry “double-standard.”
Read MoreA new project called “100 Days of Transparency” uses drones and private investigators to uncover putative politician wrongdoing. Is this the sort of transparency we want and need?
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$653,868.35
A new law that limits the salaries of bank presidents to just 44 times minimum wage, or a mere $653,868.35.
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