Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Michael Freedman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 18 May 2013 09:51:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 In varietate concordia http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hobsons-choice/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hobsons-choice/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:42:10 +0000 Michael Freedman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=96876 This was my first election day as an Israeli citizen. The Israel I moved to is in many ways not the Israel of any of these parties, and yet of course it is the Israel of all of them. That is the literal meaning of democracy – power to the people – even when the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hobsons-choice/feed/ 2 Leading us out of bondage http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/leading-us-out-of-bondage/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/leading-us-out-of-bondage/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:54:59 +0000 Michael Freedman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=38346 “Our word is our bond” is a famous expression. It is just fine when that word is worth something, but it should not be used to answer away the lack of proper documentation behind an agreement. Should this attitude be acceptable when Israel’s largest companies are seeking money from Israeli institutions? The President’s Conference played [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/leading-us-out-of-bondage/feed/ 0 Moody perhaps, but nobody has the blues http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/moody-perhaps-but-nobody-has-the-blues/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/moody-perhaps-but-nobody-has-the-blues/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 11:04:36 +0000 Michael Freedman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=26504 Last week, Moody’s downgraded Israeli banks’ outlook from Stable to Negative. For the layman, this kind of news story often proves quite alarming, but in Israel, it’s business as usual. Maybe the prospect of a banking meltdown just pales in comparison to an Iranian nuclear one. Those of us who were in the UK during [...]

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