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Apr 11, 2021, 1:37 PM

Is Israel too democratic?

An Israeli soldier casts his early vote in the March 23 general election, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, at a mobile polling station at a military base, near Kibbutz Regavim, Israel March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Corinna Kern. Via Jewish News

Before the social media warriors reach for their keyboard and start crying “fascist”, I would ask them to read this ‘blog to the end, judging articles on their content and not their headline. Having made aliyah 28 months ago, I now find myself a veteran...

Jan 29, 2019, 12:25 PM

Sorry dear reader, but the writing is on the wall

Mark Lewis during this the 2018 Al-Quds Day parade, which he temporarily halted in his wheelchair (Jewish News)

Aged eight, I watched Fiddler on the Roof and was horrified when the cossacks stormed through Motel and Tzeitel’s wedding. I cried as the Jews of Anatevka fled the pogroms of Czarist Russia. My family had fled the east a century earlier owing to antisemitism, but that was...

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Mark Lewis is a lawyer with Patron Law