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Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu

Jun 23, 2026, 2:04 PM

For Israel’s Palestinian Citizens, Mahash Is No Address for Justice

The Knesset has recently approved legislation that changes the status of Mahash, Israel’s Department for Internal Police Investigations. The new legislation removes the agency from its previous position within Israel's prosecution system, grants it broader prosecutorial authority, and places...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jun 19, 2026, 9:55 AM

Independence or Out-Dependents? The Fall of Israeli Sovereignty

The State of Israel came into being for one central reason: ensuring that Jews, through their own elected government, are in control of their lives and destiny. Sadly, such “sovereignty” has lately suffered from significant erosion – and not...

Deborah Villanueva

Jun 17, 2026, 5:34 AM

Healing a Nation: What Hadassah Means to Israel’s Body and Soul

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There are moments in Israel when the line between emergency medicine and emotional survival disappears. You see it in hospital hallways. You hear it in the voices of teenagers carrying grief too large for their age. You feel it in...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 16, 2026, 8:33 PM

Can Israeli Arab Politics Change the next Election

Israel remains almost evenly divided over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fitness. Netanyahu avoids criticizing US-Iran deal, and claims the war’s main goals have been achieved. Meanwhile, Israel’s Arab political parties failed to sign surplus-vote sharing agreements before the deadline for...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Jun 14, 2026, 12:01 PM

Trump’s Iran Gamble

Iran survived. After years of sanctions, covert operations, cyberattacks, assassinations, and military strikes, the regime in Tehran remains standing. Now it may be on the verge of receiving exactly what it needs most: time. The emerging memorandum of understanding between the United...

Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu

Jun 4, 2026, 1:12 PM

Five Years after May 2021, the Conditions for Eruptions Still Exist

In the nights of May 2021, many Israelis found themselves witnessing something they never believed could happen: Jews and Arabs attacking one another in the streets of Lod, Acre, Jaffa, Ramle, and elsewhere, while the state failed to restore...

May 30, 2026, 5:02 PM

Beyond Electoral Arithmetic: The Opposition’s Arab Dilemma

If Arab parties are legitimate enough to participate in elections, they are legitimate enough to participate in government. In an earlier essay for The Times of Israel, “The Opposition Must Be Prepared to Form a Coalition with Arab Parties After...

Yisrael Klitsner

May 30, 2026, 1:38 PM

Can Mansour Abbas save Israeli democracy?

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on February 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Israel heads for its first election since October 7, the Ra'am party leader demonstrates an alternative to grievance and division

Sheldon Kirshner

May 27, 2026, 8:41 PM

One Street In Silwan

Silwan, a largely Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem near the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, has emerged as a flashpoint in Israel's conflict with the Palestinians. In the past few years, 28 families, consisting of 160 Palestinians, have been...

May 27, 2026, 4:04 PM

Elections are Coming. They Must Be Free and Fair.

The first preliminary bill to dissolve the Knesset ahead of looming elections passed yesterday. The announcement, while both expected and anxiously awaited, comes at an extremely difficult moment in Israeli history. The outcome will undoubtedly shape how millions of...

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