By signing up to The Times of Israel mailing list, you hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Arieh Kovler is a freelance public affairs, communication and research consultant. Before his aliya he was the Head of Policy and Research for Britain's Jewish Leadership Council. He is an adviser to the Fair Play Campaign, the UK's coordination body against anti-Zionist activity.

HOT or not? Nightmares in customer service

Getting married means planning a wedding and moving house all at the same time. There's so much to do -- paperwork and organising and moving and packing......

How I (and you?) fought Hamas online and won

We take our victories where we can find them. Back in November 2012, with the sound of Colour Red alerts on the radio, I felt useless.......

Get free stuff: tips from a Conference Maven

In the 2009 film "Up in the Air", George Clooney is such a frequent flyer that he knows all the tricks: which line to stand in at check-in,......

They don’t want us to vote. We shouldn’t let them win.

My Facebook newsfeed is full of political ads and sponsored posts: vote for this one in Ramat-Gan and that one in Ashkelon; vote for local councils and for mayors;......

Peace Talks and Magnets – Why John Kerry Finally Succeeded

When I was a kid I used to have a wooden Brio train set. The wooden engine and wooden carriages had little magnets on each end, and using these......

Samira Ibrahim is probably lying: technical evidence

The row over Samira Ibrahim's tweets (written up by my fellow blogger Marc) is raging. Mainstream US journalists are now beginning to cover the story, and Jeffery Goldberg has......

The Tightrope Coalition

Here is the problem. Benjamin Netanyahu is the Israeli people's choice for Prime Minister. For some people, this is an enthusiastic vote of confidence in a leader they admire; for......

Election Scorecard: Polls and Pollsters

Israel's elections are over, and there are no more polls for the data junkies to pour over and discuss. Reality has intruded on predictions and voter models. It's almost an......

How to Vote: a Guide for First-Time Voters

As a relatively new immigrant to Israel, this will be the first election in which I'm entitled to vote in Israel. Because it's been a while since the last......

Is Likud-Beyteinu collapsing?

On October 25, when Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman stood in the Dan Panorama and announced that their two parties would be running on a joint slate, they......

Assessing the Bayit HaYehudi “surge”

News coverage of elections is all about position and momentum - who's ahead? Who's gaining? Whose support is dropping? Opinion polls are the single best way of determining how people......

Haaretz dodgy data in Livni poll story

A story in Haaretz today, based around a new Dialog poll of Israeli voters, announces "The Left Bloc contracts further". The Haaretz piece reveals that their new poll......

Kick Hamas off Twitter

One thing that the world media has discovered in the course of the current conflict: Hamas has a Twitter account. Actually, Hamas probably has lots of Twitter accounts. Specifically, though,......

A Gaza operation is a trap for Israel

The renewed rocket fire into Southern Israel has created a trap that Israel's leaders are fighting hard to avoid. Escalations in the South happen every couple of months, but they're......

Israel needs more openness in opinion polling

Avi Mayer did the cause of honesty and openness a service when he dug into the data of the Dialog poll published in Haaretz this week.......

Latest Articles

Popular Bloggers

The Times of Israel on Facebook

Times Of Israel Bloggers on Twitter