The Supreme Court has rejected the government’s policy of allowing exemptions from army service to ultra-Orthodox kids as unconstitutional.

We review the most percussive and important events and people of the year that ends this week, 5777.

Why does the struggle for animal rights and animal liberation resonate so strongly with so many Israelis?

The Young Turk “New Likudniks” are trying to take over the party and move it leftward: is that o.k.?

Should the Prime Minister pay a political price for the zany reality-TV foibles of his family?

The courts and the Knesset have recently moved to squelch the sex industry: is this blessed feminism or cursed puritanism?

Could the shocking disclosure that PM Netanyahu conversed lots with the editor of Israel’s biggest newspaper before elections possibly be kosher?

What can we learn from a video of IDF soldiers searching a West Bank Palestinian home about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?

We discuss the hubbub around the suggestion that Israel needs to change the name of our airport, because some Palestinian citizens see Ben Gurion as an author of their people’s miseries.

We discuss a new Ministry of Education website contains all imaginable data about Israel’s schools; but could this be too much information?