Is Benny Gantz’s message to Israeli voters basically what Julia Roberts said to Hugh Grant in Notting Hill: “I’m just a brigadier-general, standing in front of an electorate, asking them to love him?”

What does the new “Voice of Women” party running for Knesset offers our body-politic?

The Central Election Committee votes to bar from running for the Knesset 34 year old Palestinian-Israeli firebrand lawmaker Hiba Yazbak (and the Supreme Court overturns the decision). Does the fact that she’s a woman figure among the other reasons why MK Yazbak was banned?

Is PM Netanyahu’s embrace of US President Trump’s peace plan a decades-long reversal of Israel’s insistence that only it and the Palestinians can resolve the conflict?

Should settler filmmakers get tax shekels to make settler films about settler experiences on settlements?

Avigdor Lieberman and his right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party say that only they will keep Israel “liberal” by beating back the rabbis. Were we wrong to think that the right, by nature, admires religion?

The doyen of Israeli sociology and a major public intellectual J’Accuses the left of swapping out good, Enlightenment values for mamby-pamby postmodern relativism, thereby allowing the rabbis to take over the country. Does she have a point?

Did Vladimir Putin just make Bibi Netanyahu his bitch?

Prime Minister Netanyahu withdraws his request for immunity, and is formally charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Now what?

We’ve read US President Trump’s Deal-of-the-Century peace plan, and our considered reaction is, “WTF?!?”