The Bombshell was a Dud
A week after the Attorney General announced he’d be indicted for bribery and breach of trust, PM Netanyahu is more popular than before. Why?
Read MoreA week after the Attorney General announced he’d be indicted for bribery and breach of trust, PM Netanyahu is more popular than before. Why?
Read MoreYour friend asks for help moving into a new apartment in a West-Bank settlement. Should you do it?
Read MoreIsrael’s “New Right” Party launches a campaign proposing that Judaism, Israeli identity and right-wing politics fit together hand-in-glove. Is it gonna get them votes?
Read MoreNo Palestinian-Israeli party has ever joined the country’s ruling coalition. Has the time come to break that taboo?
Read MoreAre market forces making it impossible for welders, metalsmiths, carpenters, upholsterers, cobblers, tailors, and mechanics to do what they do in Tel Aviv? Is every meter of real estate in the city destined to be fancy housing for rich folks?
Read MoreTzipi Livni was almost Prime Minister and, as Foreign Minister, she almost signed a peace accord with the Palestinians. Why, then, do only one in a hundred Israelis support her, bringing her brilliant career to an ignoble end?
Read MoreCan a single political party endure with members who are Two-State Solution types and others who are Never-Palestinian-State sorts? The new centrist mega-party “Blue & White” does just that: Is it a civil war in the making?
Read MoreFew here are as revered as women who have buried sons killed in combat. That’s understandable, but is it also unfair to women?
Read MoreEffusive reporters described Israeli primaries as a “celebration of democracy.” Others, like former Labor PM Ehud Barak, expressed their antipathy for the process. Are primaries good or bad for Israeli democracy? If not through primaries, then how ought Knesset candidates be chosen?
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