Liron Libman, at The Blogs

Apr 19, 2022, 7:54 AM

In the war on terror, not all means are justified

Police arrest several suspects who were allegedly involved in the Hadera attack or who have Islamic State links, March 28, 2022. (Israel Police)

Harsh measures often have unintended consequences – and, when it comes to collective punishment, they also have troubling moral implications

Oct 7, 2020, 3:48 PM

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What do you do when there’s a hole in the boat?

Israeli police try to control a crowd of mourners during the funeral of Rabbi Mordechai Leifer, the latest in a string of clashes between security forces and ultra-Orthodox Jews violating a national coronavirus lockdown order, in the port city of Ashdod, Israel, October 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel must reclaim its relinquished sovereignty over the ultra-Orthodox and cancel their rabbis' unlimited power brokering between their flocks and the state

Nov 13, 2019, 5:57 AM

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Who is authorized to take Israel to ‘war’?

Rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel, followed the targeted killing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror chief Baha Abu al-Ata, by an Israeli strike, on November 12, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

There is a shocking vagueness about the authority to make fateful decisions for the country, including what even counts as war

About Me

Col. (res.) Dr. Liron Libman is a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. He previously served as the head of the International Law Department of the IDF and as Chief Military Prosecutor. He is the author of "Will You Sweep away the Righteous with the wicked? Security Measures and collective Punishment" (IDI, 2019)