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Ballot boxes filled with votes from nationwide municipal elections are brought to the Central Election Committee headquarters for counting, October 22, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)
October 29, 2018, 11:39 am
Secretive crackdown on fake profiles shows Israel wide open to election meddling
On eve of local vote, national cyber unit, part of Netanyahu’s office, reveals it has asked Facebook to close thousands of accounts used to spread false info about candidates
By Sue Surkes and Raoul Wootliff
US President Donald Trump stops to talk to the media before walking across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, October 22, 2018, to board Marine One helicopter for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland., en route to Houston. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
October 23, 2018, 10:18 pm
Most Israeli men support Trump’s critique of #MeToo — survey
53% agree it’s a ‘scary time for young men,’ compared with 36% of women; more Jews support anti-sexual harassment campaign than Arabs, more seculars back it than religious
By Michael Bachner
Arab Israeli women seen near the northern city of Nazareth on December 9, 2017 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 16, 2018, 1:02 pm
To help Arabs integrate, Israel should help strengthen Arab identity – study
In report on non-formal education in the Arab community, researchers urge focusing on what it means to be Arab in Jewish society, and remembering that not all Arabs are the same
By Shoshanna Solomon
Israeli soldiers walk near an army tank patrolling along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2018. (AFP/Jack Guez)
July 31, 2018, 10:23 pm
Most Israeli Jews back large-scale Gaza offensive if ceasefire fails
Survey finds Israelis split on Assad’s recent advances near northern border, but almost all support providing humanitarian aide to Syrian refugees
By TOI staff
A picture taken on October 17, 2016 shows an employee walking behind a glass wall with machine coding symbols at the headquarters of Internet security giant Kaspersky in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV)
July 18, 2018, 1:33 pm
Unwitting Israeli MKs almost pass law allowing sweeping internet censorship
Bill that would have given state power to block content on any website stymied by Netanyahu hours before final vote, after Times of Israel queries MKs about its drastic provisions
By Raoul Wootliff
This file photo taken on November 21, 2016, shows Facebook logos pictured on the screens of a smartphone (R), and a laptop computer, in central London. (AFP)
July 15, 2018, 3:50 pm
Law clamping down on Facebook ‘incitement’ okayed for final vote
Critics say legislation, meant to protect national security, can be used to limit freedom of expression ‘against almost anything you can imagine’
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative: Democracy at work: casting a vote the old-fashioned way, in a ballot box. (Paperkites; iStock by Getty Images)
June 12, 2018, 2:57 pm
Democracies under attack as world grapples with privacy policies, watchdog says
Dr Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, says governments must fight the threat that data collection poses to our freedom of choice
By Shoshanna Solomon
Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the cockpit of a F-15 fighter jet at Hatzerim Air Base in southern Israel in August 2009. (Israel Defense Forces /Flash90)
May 21, 2018, 10:48 pm
Even hawks are wary of new law that lets PM, defense minister declare war
A reform allowing 2 people — or even just 1 — to send Israel into full-scale conflict was approved with little fuss, and nobody has yet appealed it. What’s going on?
By Raphael Ahren
Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (R) with Jewish Home MK and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset plenum, on November 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 30, 2018, 7:25 am
Most Israelis think bid to limit Supreme Court endangers democracy — poll
Israel Democracy Institute survey finds 65 percent of public believe proposed legislation would give government ‘unlimited power’
By Raoul Wootliff
Rabbi Elimelech Biderman and thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrating in Meron, Northern Israel, December 1, 2017. (David Cohen/Flash90)
April 16, 2018, 8:39 pm
Poll: Only 17% of Israeli ultra-Orthodox celebrate Independence Day
In haredi community, Sephardic Jews and over-45s identify more with festivities; only 34% say Holocaust Remembrance Day a time of mourning
By TOI staff
12,000 Israelis gather at the latest Koolulam singing initiative held at Tel Aviv's Menora Mivtachim in honor of Israel's 70th (Courtesy Koolulam)
April 16, 2018, 12:03 pm
On Israel’s 70th, become a part of history as you look back on it
Israel celebrates Independence Day in every city, town and village; here are a few standout options for marking Yom Ha’atzmaut
By Jessica Steinberg
About 100 "Bnei Menashe" (Sons of Menashe) from India landed at Ben Gurion Airport, on June 25, 2015, immigrating to Israel (Flash90)
March 28, 2018, 12:42 pm
Ministry: Israel should woo 60 million people who have Jewish links to aid state
Seeking converts, immigrants, and Israel advocates, Diaspora Ministry-appointed panel suggests pilot project among 5 million descendants of Jewish converts to Christianity
By Sue Surkes
Palestinians help evacuate an injured protester during clashes with Israeli troops, near Khan Yunis, by the border fence between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip, on March 9, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
March 22, 2018, 5:25 pm
Most Israelis think moving US embassy will spark violence, but still say do it
Nearly 60% say that anticipated unrest shouldn’t stymie plan to relocate American mission on 70th anniversary of Israeli independence
By TOI staff
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a conference organized bythe 'Makor Rishon' newspaper, and the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem ,on March 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
March 11, 2018, 9:09 pm
Rivlin: Israeli democracy can withstand attacks on institutions
Amid harsh rhetoric from Netanyahu and his opponents, president says criticism legitimate, as long as it doesn’t become ‘incitement’
By TOI staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews study at a Yeshiva in the settlment of Modiin Illit on October 19, 2009. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
February 5, 2018, 10:43 pm
Study finds lower ultra-Orthodox male employment in Israel
Israel Democracy Institute says that after steady rise over several years, rate dropped by 1.4% in 2017
By AP and TOI staff
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