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Primary Directive

Do party primaries pick better Knesset candidates than the more autocratic alternatives?

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Homo Sionisticus Religiosus

What, if anything, do the primaries in the Religious Zionism party say about, well, religious Zionism?

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Fifty Holocausts

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says, in Berlin, dumb*ssedly, that Israel has perpetrated “fifty Holocausts.” What, if anything, do we learn from that about the man and the government he represents?

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Likud: The Screwed, Renewed and Netanyahu’ed

After its recent primaries, has the Likud become a party “of Netanyahu, by Netanyahu and for Netanyahu”?

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In Labor

After its recent primaries, does Labor still look like a party that could ever rule Israel again?

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My Atrocity & Yours (& Ours)

Newly unsealed documents shed some brutal light on an atrocity done in 1956. What should they mean to us today?

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My War & Yours (& Ours)

Can a Palestinian Israeli (like Sally) and a Jewish, Zionist Israeli (like Noah) find even a common language and common facts to talk about last weeks rockets-and-bombs in and out of Gaza?

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Carry that Weight

A study says that IDF inductees weigh 10 kg more these days, on average, than they did 40 years ago – yikes!

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Gimme Shelter

A judge orders a woman into protective custody when her ex and his family threatens her life. That can’t be right, can it?

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