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Unit 8200, Down on Route 60

The IDF pledges to move its crack intelligence units from the center of the country two hours south, and lots of career soldiers weigh leaving the army for the private sector. What should the generals do?

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F*ck’m!

Former US President Donald Trump says that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu never wanted to make peace, and doesn’t know the meaning of loyalty. But aren’t the two men BFFs?

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Holding the Line

By changing regulations, the government plans to make it harder for ultra-Orthodox leaders to make sure their followers use only “kosher phones.” Are Haredi rabbis and politicians right to be upset?

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Leading the Witness

Police investigators strong-arm Benjamin Netanyahu’s one-time spokesman and media consultant to testify against his former boss, saying that if he doesn’t they’ll destroy his family and his life. Is the whole trial tainted?

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(Some) People’s Army

A new poll finds that most Israelis favor cancelling universal conscription and turning the IDF into a “professional army.” Is the IDF still a “People’s army”?

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Whose Country Is It Anyway?

By closing its borders, is Israel turning diaspora Jews into “second-class Jews”?

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Hanukkah with Zealots, Oh My!

President Yitzhak Herzog lights candles with settlers in Hebron, causing protestors on the left to cry, “He’s not my president.”

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Israel’s Next Top Model

New models say in 2050, one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox, but does that maybe tell us more about the models than it does about the ultra-Orthodox?

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