Minister of Defense and Alternate PM Benny Gantz sets up a ministerial committee to investigate corruption in the purchase of German submarines and ships, that may implicate the Prime Minister. But should ministries be used to harass political rivals?

When you buy stuff from overseas on the internet, you don’t pay tax, but when you go into a store in Tel Aviv, you do. Does that make any sense at all?

A crowdsourced campaign puts the faces and names of rapists and abusers on billboards and bus-side ads, in order to shame them. Cathartic, yes? But does it make our lives better or worse?

When Pfizer announced last week that its vaccine looks good, PM Netanyahu got on the horn and negotiated a deal to buy a mess of vaccine at high-end boutique prices, even though six months ago, Israel entered a much cheaper deal for vaccines by Moderna. Was the PM showboating, politicking, or looking out for the health of his citizens?

The Twitter-pugilist son of the prime minister, Yair Netanyahu, starts a podcast interviewing right-wing populist leaders and pretenders around the world, trying to create an international coalition of My-Country-First nationalists. We listened and survived to tell the tale!

Aging lions of the old Left say the only way the Left will survive is if it leaves Zionism out of party politics. Do they have a point?

Trump will soon be the 45th ex-President of the United States. Did his turbulent four years in office change Israel in ways that will last?

A Minister in Israel says Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy means nothing to her. Is that cool?

Haaretz’s Anshel Pfeffer writes that Jews in Paris, Brasilia and Jerusalem are splitting into two tribes: Trump Jews & Anti-Trump Jews. Does he have a point?

Washington lies 9,499 kilometers from Jerusalem, and yet the politics of the one affects the politics of the other. What, if anything, can we learn from the mess of American politics about the mess of Israeli politics?