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Shimon Sheves

May 18, 2026, 2:51 PM

The ‘day after’ deception that exploded in our faces

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu’s refusal to plan for Gaza’s future wasn’t a blunder — it was a bid to save his coalition. The cost? Lives, endless war and no political horizon

Jan 28, 2026, 10:14 AM

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Preferred Policy Carries a Deadly Price

It is hard to grasp how many soldiers and hostages have been killed, murdered, or wounded because political survival was placed above human life. And despite repeated warnings, we are once again handed the same package that “surprised” us...

Jan 19, 2026, 7:33 PM

The New Betrayal of the State of Israel Doesn’t Look Like What People Think

The new betrayal of the State of Israel is not about selling state secrets, or accepting envelopes, suitcases, or suitcases stuffed with cash. It is not overt, crude, or immediately visible. It comes disguised as yet another appointment that...

Jan 4, 2026, 12:21 PM

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Only a partnership with Mansour Abbas can save Zionism from itself

The opposition's refusal to work with the Arab Ra'am party will push Israel to cross its final red lines and become a religious, fundamentalist autocracy

Dec 30, 2025, 5:28 PM

We Do Not Need a Commission of Inquiry That Becomes a Cemetery for the Truth

The government can establish a “broad” commission and promise the truth-then grant it a mandate designed to deflect responsibility. Another commission, more months, thousands of pages, and in the end: zero accountability. If we truly want a genuine commission...

Dec 24, 2025, 12:54 PM

There Will Be No Second Chance: A Final Call to Save Democracy

Regimes do not change in a single day. They erode—clause by clause, law by law—until the public grows accustomed to it. The disaster of October 7 was only the climax of a long process of rule by fear, incitement,...

Dec 3, 2025, 8:43 PM

Remember Ahead of the Upcoming Elections: Beware of the ‘Hendels’

According to the chairman of the “Reservists’ Party,” the deputy director of Rambam Hospital—who has treated wounded soldiers for years—is somehow unfit to sit at the decision-making table. Yoaz Hendel brings nothing but a pleasant illusion wrapped in the...

Nov 16, 2025, 2:19 PM

The Statehood We Lost – And What It Reveals About Us

“Statehood.” A word once cherished in Israel because it captured who we aspired to be. Today, it is spoken almost as a slur. Once, a “state-minded” person was anyone committed to building the country - anyone for whom the state...

About Me

Shimon Sheves was General Director of the Prime Minister's office under the late Yizhak Rabin. He is currently the Founder and Chairman of HolistiCyber, which provides nation-state level cyber security solution.