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Ungrandfathering the Grandchild Clause

Why do the religious parties all want to change the Law of Return so it applies to fewer people?

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Yes, Virginia, There is an Override Clause

All the parties in Netanyahu’s presumptive coalition agree to pass a law letting the Knesset to overrule the Supreme Court’s striking down laws passed by the Knesset. What happens now?

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Not That Kind of a Jewish State

Are the very religious parties that will make up half of Netanyahu’s coalition hoping to turn Israel into a Halakhic State?

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It Just Doesn’t Matter?

Why do some people wake up on election morning with the feeling that it just doesn’t matter who they vote for, or if they vote at all?

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A Line in the Sea

Israel negotiates an historic treaty with Lebanon, but PM Yair Lapid doesn’t bring it to the Knesset to ratify, on the grounds that, if he did, it wouldn’t. Did he make the right call?

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After the Holidays

For a month, during the holidays, it’s almost impossible to do anything. Then the world comes crashing back

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