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Oct 23, 2023, 4:44 PM

Just as Begin resigned, so should Netanyahu. But he won’t

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a special Knesset plenum session presenting the new emergency government, in Jerusalem, October 12, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Even now, with 1,400 dead and 200 abducted, Bibi and the opportunists in his government are making political calculations

Aug 6, 2023, 3:41 PM

The corrosive impact of treating Arab Israeli crime as ‘terror’

Police at the scene of a double homicide in the Arab town of Jisr az Zarqa, July 21, 2023. (Israel Police)

The government is pushing for a regime of Jewish supremacy with two legal systems, divided according to ethnicity. It won't work

Jul 28, 2020, 5:34 PM

Israel’s ticking time bomb

Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference announcing the planned annexation, in September 2019 (Jewish News)

Even if the "annexation plan" did not materialize on 1 July as Prime Minister Netanyahu promised, the idea is not off the agenda. It's still there and it's still a ticking bomb. His Blue and White coalition partners take...

May 4, 2020, 5:14 PM

We’re fighting for Israel’s identity, a country that’s as much yours as mine

Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz (Jewish News)

In his article of 30 April, Sir Mick Davis warns that Israeli politics is violating the values of the Diaspora. I certainly agree with Sir Mick’s diagnosis, and the four challenges he identifies for Israel as we look to...

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Zehava Galon is the former head of the Meretz party and served as a member of Knesset for 16 years. She is founder and president of the new Israeli NGO, Zulat.