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My Kidn is for Yidn

Former MK Moshe Feiglin just donated a kidney, and wanted to designate that it go to a Jew. Is there anything wrong with that?

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“Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On”

Gideon Sa’ar, an acolyte-turned-enemy of PM Netanyahu, starts a new right-wing party and promises to pry Netanyahu from the office he’s held for 11 years straight. Is this the beginning of the end for Bibi?

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Arks & Sciences

What are we to make of an archaeologist’s claim that King David was little more than the mediocre chieftain of a mediocre tribe?

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Remember that Name, Fakhrizadeh

Why does the assassination of the head of Iran’s nuclear weapons program seem like one thing in Jerusalem and something very different in Washington?

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An Irony Wrapped in a Prevarication Inside a Mendacity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants new elections but votes against them; Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz does not want new elections but votes for them. Is Israel heading back to the polls?

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#IDF

The IDF sweats to seem cool on social media. But should an army be cool?

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

American-spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard is free after 35 years and moving to Israel. What sort of welcome should he get?

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Sub-Committee?

Minister of Defense and Alternate PM Benny Gantz sets up a ministerial committee to investigate corruption in the purchase of German submarines and ships, that may implicate the Prime Minister. But should ministries be used to harass political rivals?

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The Tax

When you buy stuff from overseas on the internet, you don’t pay tax, but when you go into a store in Tel Aviv, you do. Does that make any sense at all?

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The Facts

A crowdsourced campaign puts the faces and names of rapists and abusers on billboards and bus-side ads, in order to shame them. Cathartic, yes? But does it make our lives better or worse?

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