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Israelis protest in support of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, July 14, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
July 14, 2025, 4:55 pm
Two scholars warn of Israel’s democratic backsliding, hidden by Oct. 7’s fog of war
In their new Hebrew-language book ‘Democracy in Retreat,’ Noam Gidron and Yaniv Roznai claim the government is using populism and polarization to chip away at democracy
By Eliyahu Freedman
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, right, and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani at a joint press conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, January 20, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem, GPO)
January 21, 2025, 1:44 am
Sa’ar says a reformed Palestinian Authority could be involved in governing Gaza
But in a joint press conference with Italian counterpart, foreign minister says ‘pay to slay’ policy needs to end, as must incitement, before cooperation can occur
By Rossella Tercatin
Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett, left, and Yash Atid leader Yair Lapid in the Knesset during the presidential election, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 12, 2021, 3:09 pm
Why the champions of change are forming one of Israel’s most bloated governments
Lapid railed at the dysfunction of the Netanyahu-Gantz government. Yet he and Bennett have set up one just as big and wasteful. What’s needed, paradoxically, is a bigger Knesset
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Naomi Chazan
June 4, 2018, 12:39 pm
Naomi Chazan
The Israeli government needs more Arabs
Excluding 20% of the population from the political equation severely handicaps Israel’s prospects for political change
Knesset House Committee Chairman David Bitan speaks at a committee meeting October 26, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 15, 2016, 3:00 pm
Knesset committees could get more leeway to kill legislation
House Committee head David Bitan (Likud) recommends capping number of bills, eliminating preliminary votes
By Marissa Newman
View of the Knesset plenum hall, October 14, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 31, 2013, 6:01 am
Quiet revolution afoot as reforms sail through Knesset
Electoral change, pay equality, raised marriage age, rabbinical competition — a stream of liberal legislation is moving with unexpected ease through an ostensibly right-wing government
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Thousands of Islamic Action Front supporters carrying banners and a large Jordanian flag gather earlier this month to demand constitutional reforms during an opposition rally in Amman. (photo credit: AP/Raad Adayleh)
October 5, 2012, 8:30 pm
Jordanian Islamists rally for elections boycott
Thousands take to the streets of Amman in rare protest against Hashemite regime
Jordan's King Abdullah II (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
October 5, 2012, 12:30 pm
Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan calls for mass protest against king’s policies
Group decries what it sees as ‘foot-dragging’ on promised reforms
By Yoel Goldman and AP
Salameh Nematt in his Amman office, September 24 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
September 27, 2012, 12:30 pm
Unrest is growing, but most Jordanians still prefer change from above and not below
A Jordanian journalist, and Israel ‘normalizer,’ says he prefers perestroika to revolution
By Elhanan Miller
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