Retired Paratrouper Colonel and political analyst Shaul Arieli recently wrote an essay called, “Israel’s Settlement Movement Isn’t Growing the Way you Thought it Was.”

Former Minister of Education Shai Piron and IDF Chiefs of Staff Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi announced that they are forming a new “cultural values organization.”

A debate has arisen about Israel’s diplomatic ties with the rising far right nationalist parties in Europe.

Israeli photographer David Rubinger died at 92 last week, known best for his photograph of paratroopers gazing at the newly captured Wailing Wall.

Israel’s High Court of Justice sanctioned “shunning” this week, a kind of excommunication of men who refuse to grant their wives divorces, by a 5-2 vote.

Retired Paratrouper Colonel and political analyst Shaul Arieli recently wrote an essay called, “Israel’s Settlement Movement Isn’t Growing the Way you Thought it Was.”

Next month, there will be an appreciation ceremony and military parade in which Israeli children will be forced to declaim from memory words of gratitude to security forces, including the Border Guards.

Yitzhak Herzog, head of the Labor Party, the Zionist Union and the Opposition, issued a new “10-point Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Peace” this week.

This week, this committee selected four new Supreme Court Justices (or 26 and two thirds percent of the court), to replace four judges facing mandatory retirement during the course of 2017.

The annual “State of the Sciences in Israel” report found that Israeli science is on the downswing.