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Jonathan Shavit

Feb 16, 2026, 6:14 AM

Election year and the importance of the Arab Israeli vote

The opportunity for Israelis to exercise their democratic right is once again upon them. While Israeli society has shown in the past two years that it succeeds in coming together in the most wonderful ways, at the ballot box...

Jan 19, 2026, 2:58 PM

Benny Gantz and the fraternity of the nerds

'Sulking elevated to political strategy.' National Unity party leader Benny Gantz attends a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

This kind of nerd seeks not dominance, but affection and approval – not in order to gain ideological representation, but to survive politically

Mihran Kalaydjian

Oct 25, 2025, 11:12 AM

Israel’s Future on the Ballot

Israel is approaching a defining election. The next Knesset vote will not simply determine who sits in the Prime Minister’s Office — it will decide whether Israel remains a cohesive, democratic, and forward-looking society, or continues to fracture under the...

Oct 13, 2025, 11:04 PM

Israel at a Crossroads?!

For decades, Israel has been accused of rejecting precisely planned for Gaza. Critics call it stubbornness. Supporters call it self-defense. The truth lies between those poles: Israel did not reject precisely plan because it feared coexistence; it rejected precisely...

Aug 25, 2025, 7:55 AM

Wouldn’t it be nice? The politics of consensus

Benny Gantz’s speech on Saturday evening — proposing a government of national agreement to expedite a hostage deal and pass a military draft law that would end exemptions for Haredim — was met with the predictable tsunami of political...

Jul 21, 2025, 7:36 AM

The State of Israel at an existential crossroads

Since October 7th, 2023, the State of Israel has fought – and very successfully so from a military point of view – a war on multiple fronts. The tragic and horrific events of October 7th have traumatized the Israeli...

Mar 3, 2025, 3:50 PM

Strategic Politics: What Germany Must Learn from Israel’s Fragmentation

When Germany faced a political crisis in 1966, the country’s two largest parties—CDU and SPD—set aside their differences and formed a grand coalition. The move was far from ideal, but it prevented a political vacuum that could have destabilized...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Feb 12, 2025, 5:15 AM

Empathy before education, also for the family and friends of the Chamas hostages

This empathy must be the easiest in the world, but it must be expressed Marshall Rosenberg coined the slogan 'Empathy before education.' You can't convey your thinking to people who suffer until you first express your sympathy for what they are...

Sep 11, 2024, 10:23 PM

To Gantz, Lapid, and Deri

Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, like many of us, you are undoubtedly alarmed by the state of our beloved country. A time when during a war a handful of extreme voices, are mired in politics and rhetoric that endangers...

Sep 3, 2024, 12:17 PM

There Are No Words

This combination of six undated photos shows hostages, from top left, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi; from bottom left, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Carmel Gat (z"l). (The Hostages Families Forum via AP)--From Times of Israel

Late Saturday night, here in California, my wife Judy and I were stunned into silence upon hearing the breaking news of the brutal murders of Hersh, Eden, Carmel, Alex, Ori, and Almog (z"l). I was immediately transported back to...

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