January 14, 2013
12:26 pm

Another election – still no representation

Like many Israelis, I have yet to decide exactly how to cast my vote in next week’s election. A succession of polls indicates that around one in four Israelis have......

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November 23, 2012
2:33 pm

Adding Diplomatic Creativity to Iron Dome Ingenuity

Perhaps the biggest hero of Operation Pillar of Defense is the Iron Dome missile defense system. Its impressive interception rate blunted the rocket threat from Hamas. saving countless lives......

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August 8, 2012
8:59 am

Cool the Olympic outrage for just one minute

On Monday evening, a moving ceremony was held in London’s illustrious Guildhall to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games......

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July 4, 2012
11:32 am

Forget the Tal Law, It’s All About Education

It has taken just two months for a concerted attempt to regulate ultra-orthodox (haredi) military service to collapse. Charged with replacing the redundant Tal Law with a mechanism to......

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June 8, 2012
12:00 am

Her Majesty’s lesson on democracy

Nobody does pageantry quite like the British. If this week’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations are anything to go by, the pomp and ceremony of a royal occasion has lost none......

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May 16, 2012
10:42 am

Time to Give the Voters a Voice

The dramatic Likud-Kadima coalition deal has been dubbed a “mega stinking” manoeuvre. And in many ways, it represents all that is noxious about our political system. Yet once......

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April 25, 2012
2:35 pm

Must we dance to the beat of the Iranian war drum?

Israelis are hardly known for their polite silence. Yet, barely an eyebrow was raised when Prime Minister Netanyahu described himself as "duty-bound" to equate a nuclear Iran with Nazi......

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April 10, 2012
11:51 am

The alternative 1948

“Out of sight, out of mind” -- or so the saying goes. However, having just returned from Sri Lanka on my first bona fide trip as an "Israeli traveler," I......

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March 4, 2012
10:58 am

The curious case of Mrs. Assad

Last week’s sham vote on a new Syrian constitution fooled nobody. As President Assad’s troops continued the bloodshed in Homs, the Syrian leader and his dutiful wife beamed......

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February 16, 2012
6:18 am

No Cosmetic Answer to Israel’s African Influx

Last week, the dubious distinction of housing one of the world’s largest detention facilities moved one step closer towards reality for Israel. The National Council for Construction and Planning......

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January 29, 2012
6:55 am

The Jewish state in a world of confusion

In recent weeks, the Israeli media has been flooded with coverage of our very own ‘kulturkampf’ in Beit Shemesh. Perceived as a symbol for the future of the country,......

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