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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a photo of an alleged Hamas rocket near children as he addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN in New York, September 29, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Don Emmert)
August 9, 2018, 2:59 pm
With no strategic change on either side, the battle in Gaza is over PR
Both Jerusalem and Hamas are primarily looking to preserve a tough public image among their political bases, rather than seeking an actual solution for their people
By Avi Issacharoff
Reuven Spolter
July 25, 2018, 12:47 pm
Reuven Spolter
Meet your meat!
If the kashrut organizations can ban one unethical way of killing cows, they can revamp the whole system
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
June 1, 2018, 3:30 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Theocracy, democracy, and Jewish law
When the democratic election of a secular government is sanctified by halacha (Beha’alotcha)
Yohanan Plesner
May 2, 2018, 2:16 pm
Yohanan Plesner
Supreme Court override clause paves the way to tyranny
Israel’s High Court must be able to check and balance legislation, or we risk our basic protection of democracy
Naomi Chazan
April 23, 2018, 12:47 pm
Naomi Chazan
To instill hope, Israel has to change
To claim that any and all criticism of the Israeli government is akin to betrayal is decidedly counterproductive
Naomi Chazan
March 26, 2018, 1:36 pm
Naomi Chazan
Israel’s Passover responsibility
Most Israelis are united in their desire to treat those who have nowhere to go with basic human decency
Lesley Sachs
January 12, 2018, 4:47 pm
Lesley Sachs
Sins of the father
Yair Netanyahu has been named as his father’s successor and a promising candidate; surely, we can find better
Illustrative: A tray of Israeli election ballots for March 17, 2015. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)
December 1, 2017, 3:38 pm
Power is built from below
Progressives will influence Israel’s political reality when they replace the ideologues in government
By Maya Haber and Bar Gissin
Naomi Chazan
October 9, 2017, 11:49 am
Naomi Chazan
When the best and brightest jump ship
The departure of top public servants and a move to up political appointments are a blow to good governance
Naomi Chazan
September 11, 2017, 12:55 pm
Naomi Chazan
As government boundaries break down
By blurring the lines of Israel’s legal and institutional physical existence, Netanyahu engendered national malaise
Naomi Chazan
July 17, 2017, 1:21 pm
Naomi Chazan
Game changer?
Will the promise of Avi Gabbay’s unexpected election to head Labor bear fruit?
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein during a plenary session, January 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 8, 2017, 5:36 pm
Knesset aides say unprepared MKs fail to oversee government
As Israel’s legislature returns from recess, parliamentary assistants offer insider insights into the work of its lawmakers
By Raoul Wootliff
Rolling a joint (illustrative photo: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
March 5, 2017, 4:51 pm
Government approves measure to decriminalize marijuana
Netanyahu says ‘we are open to the future… but also understand the dangers’; critics say new proposal watered down
By Alexander Fulbright
Akiva Gersh
November 18, 2016, 2:48 pm
Akiva Gersh
I don’t care if Trump is good for Israel
The Jewish values that make him support Israeli settlements make him reject claims that favor the president-elect
State Comptroller Yosef Shapira (R) hands the State Comptroller's annual report to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on May 24, 2016. (Issac Harari/Flash90)
November 1, 2016, 4:33 pm
Watchdog says Israel unprepared for civilian cyber-threat
State Comptroller’s report finds that the 5-year-old National Cyber Bureau hasn’t sufficiently protected the populace against hack attacks
By Shoshanna Solomon
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