Yoel Collick, at The Blogs

Dec 29, 2022, 6:51 PM

In 2003, the renowned lawyer and Israel advocate, Professor Alan Dershowitz, published The Case for Israel. Since then, it has become a prominent feature on countless bookshelves throughout the Jewish world. However, the book's articulate defence of Israel's basic...

Nov 2, 2022, 11:53 AM

Some solace is fine, but this is no time for complacency

Let’s start with the glass half full. On two counts. First, Israelis came out to vote in huge numbers, seemingly the highest since 1999. This is despite the fact that this is the fifth round of national elections in three...

May 4, 2022, 4:28 PM

No unity in Romema on Yom Hazikaron

Israeli soldiers pay their respect at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on May 2, 2022, a day ahead of the Yom HaZikaron (Israel's Memorial Day). - Israel will mark the Remembrance Day after sunset to commemorate over 24,068 fallen soldiers and fighters since 1860, just before the celebrations of the 74th anniversary of its creation according to the Jewish calendar. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Unity was a noted theme for this year’s Yom Hazikaron. “If we aren’t together, we won’t be at all,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said during the state ceremony at Mount Herzl. “We have no existence as feuding tribes, but only...

Jun 13, 2021, 11:41 PM

They’re not learning Torah for us

Israel’s Haredim have long justified government funding for full-time Torah study and shirking from national service on the grounds that they contribute to the country through learning, yet their disdain for both the State and their fellow Jews expose...

May 26, 2021, 10:22 AM

What’s so terrible about a ‘change government’ that justifies fifth elections?

Israeli elections, 2015 (Photo: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung)

Out of unwavering loyalty to Netanyahu and a fear of abandoning a “right-wing” government, the political right are dragging us to fifth elections. Predicted to be just as inconclusive as the previous four, they will inflict further and yet...

Apr 11, 2021, 7:20 PM

The National Religious are choosing to vilify themselves

Mar 13, 2021, 8:26 PM

Good things come to those who vote?

Netanyahu’s impressive and timely feats ahead of each and every election raises the unsettling question about whether he’s doing it for all of us, or all of it just for him. Last week, quite unusually and pretty publicly, this...

Mar 7, 2021, 12:47 PM

Netanyahu’s hypocritical embrace of anti-Zionism

The prime minister’s go-to election strategy of scaremongering about allegedly anti-Zionist government alternatives is hypocrisy at its finest when his closest political allies and their supporters are themselves ambivalent or antipathetic to the Jewish state. “Israel needs a strong...

Feb 27, 2021, 10:37 PM

How the start-up nation became a nation of suckers

The pervasive cynicism among Israelis towards their political class is not only a sad reality of modern Israel; it has become self-defeating and destructive. That Israelis are weary and cynical about their politicians has become so well-known it is scarcely...

Feb 21, 2021, 12:04 AM

No ifs, no buts, no ultra-Orthodox parties in government

Ahead of elections, the only way to save Israel from further division, injustice and ultimate suicide is if Israelis make it clear they will not tolerate ultra-Orthodox parties in government. Over the course of the pandemic, there has been...

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Yoel Collick is a writer and researcher of Jewish, Israeli and Middle Eastern affairs based in Jerusalem. He has a degree in History and Political Thought from the University of Cambridge and served in the International Cooperation Division of the Israel Defense Forces.

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