Courting Change
This week, this committee selected four new Supreme Court Justices (or 26 and two thirds percent of the court), to replace four judges facing mandatory retirement during the course of 2017.
Read MoreThis week, this committee selected four new Supreme Court Justices (or 26 and two thirds percent of the court), to replace four judges facing mandatory retirement during the course of 2017.
Read MoreThe annual “State of the Sciences in Israel” report found that Israeli science is on the downswing.
Read MoreNetanyahu and Trump perform a concerning political dance around the recent spike in antisemitic incidents in the US.
Read MoreAlor Azaria, the soldier who shot dead a disarmed and injured Palestinian attacker in the West Bank city of Hebron, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Read MoreBreaking with longstanding policy, the Israeli government plans to build whole new neighborhoods within cities for the Haredim so they would not “take over” neighborhoods now peopled by secular and modern-orthodox folks.
Read MoreOver the past year, there was a 64 percent growth in the number of registered lobbyists hobnobbing Knesset members to promote specific interests.
Read MoreThe first meeting between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has stirred confusion in Israelis, Palestinians, American Jews and other living things.
Read MoreA cartoon video recently went viral; it aims to persuade religious women to opt out of army service to avoid boredom, ennui and sexual harassment.
Read MoreA rocket fired from Gaza towards a neighboring Jewish town resulted in a pounding IDF response intended to be a warning, but could it nudge us to a war nobody wants?
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Peace in Just Ten Easy Steps!
Yitzhak Herzog, head of the Labor Party, the Zionist Union and the Opposition, issued a new “10-point Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Peace” this week.
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