Ofra Kaplan, at The Blogs

Ofra Kaplan

Apr 22, 2026, 12:15 AM

Putting Israel’s ‘democratic’ parties under the microscope

The Knesset, representative of the people, which currently grants government authority to govern. (Image from Knesset Website)

If a party that aspires to democracy and equality cannot maintain the rule of law, it cannot be expected to govern (and other failures)

Mar 6, 2026, 3:24 PM

History Doesn’t Repeat Itself… It Whines

If you have as long a history as the Jews, it is not difficult to find parallels between past events and later ones. But on closer inspection, it becomes apparent that it is not Judaism’s uninterrupted existence that drives...

Feb 11, 2026, 12:08 PM

Has Israel’s Security Model Become Its Weakness?

Israel in 2026 is grappling with land disputes, ongoing security threats and painful failures, food-security vulnerabilities and dependence on foreign labor as exposed in October 2023, and escalating violence between settlers and Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. At the...

Nov 19, 2025, 12:26 AM

The Hareidi basis for peace in the Middle East

Message of Peace and Truth from Chief Rabbi J. Ch. Sonnenfeld, 1929. An address to local non-Jewish populations, to remove suspicions of Jewish designs on the Temple Mount, and a call to all to restore order between the various populations.

I. Judaism, Democracy, and Modern Political Language It needs to be stated that Judaism is not “democratic.” There is the priesthood, the Levites, and the common garden Israelites. Then come the women, the children, and the slaves. Nothing democratic there....

Nov 16, 2025, 10:43 PM

An Absent State and Missing Questions

By a strange twist of fate, one of my daughters is called after Hadar Goldin, the captured Israeli soldier whose body was recently returned by Hamas from Gaza after eleven years. In 2005, I was living in Cambridge, UK, commuting...

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I am a Hareidi woman, a resident of northern Israel, and a candidate for Joint Party Secretary of the Israeli political party "All Its Citizens". The views expressed here are my personal views and not necessarily of "All its Citizens".