Israel from the Inside

From Daniel Gordis, an attempt to break out of the echo chamber,
surfacing the wide array of often conflicting viewpoints that make up the mosaic of Israeli life
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MK Amichai Chikli at a Knesset House Committee meeting on the Yamina party's request to declare him a 'defector,' on April 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

He bolted Naftali Bennett’s coalition even before it was a coalition

MK Amichai Chikli discusses his reasons for refusing to serve with his own party, and his views on some of the most essential challenges facing Israel.

Israel from the Inside

Israel as Villain: How that image emerged in America and why

A discussion with Matti Friedman about his article 'Israel’s Problems Are Not Like America’s' in The Atlantic

Israel from the Inside

A shared area code, a divided city

0202 is a nonprofit that translates social media posts from Arabic to Hebrew, and vice versa, so Jerusalemites can learn what fellow residents are thinking, feeling, and wishing.

Avidan Freedman is forcibly silenced at an Israeli rabbinic conference, July 2018

Israel from the Inside

Israel’s “gravest moral stain”?

Rabbi Avidan Freedman is an Orthodox rabbi who speaks out about the sale of Israeli arms to reprehensible regimes around the world

Israel from the Inside

How progressive American Jews differ from progressive Israelis

A conversation with Alissa Symon: Israeli, Orthodox, feminist, activist, progressive and a PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford.

Israel from the Inside

From Prison, to Judaism, to Israel

David Ben-Moshe, a convert of African-American descent, made headlines recently when he began a hunger strike to be recognized as an Israeli citizen. I was struck by his journey.