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Israel’s “Constitutional Moment”?

Is it time for Israel finally to write a founding document, a constitution, 75 years after the country was created?

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Phase Change?

As summer heats up, there’s an escalation of the protests and counter-protests. Looks like it’s going to be a scorching summer

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No More Heroes Anymore?

Now that the writer-prophets, the Ozes and the Yehoshuas, are no longer with us, are we sailing on a ship without a moral compass?

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What’s More Reasonable Than Reasonableness?

PM Netanyahu decided to move forward the judicial reform by passing a law limiting when and how judges can rule based on what seems “reasonable” to them. What, in Israel, has ever been reasonable?

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101 and Counting

More than 100 Palestinian citizens of Israel murdered by Palestinian citizens of Israel so far this year (and the year is not yet half over). What’s happening?

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Selectile Dysfunction

There was a weird Knesset vote this week that elected a representative from the opposition to the Judicial Selection Committee but no representative from the coalition, and still somehow led to a breakdown of talks at the President’s Residence. So what the hell happened and what does it mean?

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The Past is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past

Three-quarters of a century ago, sixteen Jewish soldiers were killed when their boat was destroyed by Jewish soldiers in a Jewish State that was 37 days old. Why does this story still matter so much to so many, 75 years later?

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On Foreign Shores?

Israeli ministers and MKs are drowned when they try to speak overseas, by Israeli protestors. Is that cool?

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Food Fight!

Can the government’s war on Coca Cola be resolved by diplomatic means?

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