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Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jun 6, 2025, 1:31 PM

Politics Isn’t the Only News

Imagine an alien coming down to Earth for some “anthropological” study. The larger universities have 40-50 departments, each specializing in a different subject or field of life. One is Political Science; perhaps another is International Relations; all the others...

Jun 3, 2025, 5:01 PM

Netanyahu’s Calculation: The War Must Go On

נשיא המדינה יצחק הרצוג מטיל על חבר הכנסת בנימין נתניהו את המנדט להקמת הממשלה
Photo by Kobi Gideon / GPO

Over the past week, the US administration held another round of negotiations involving Israel and Hamas. Although Israel agreed to the ceasefire agreement, including the release of 125 Palestinian prisoners and ten Israeli hostages by each side, and the...

Benjamin G. Kelsen

May 24, 2025, 1:42 AM

Defending Our People, Upholding Our Values

Defending Our People, Upholding Our Values: Behar-Bechukosai’s Message to Our Generation Parshas Behar-Bechukosai outlines a Torah-based framework for an ethical society rooted in responsibility, compassion, and enduring values. These parshiyos are not merely legal or agricultural instructions. They represent a...

Apr 30, 2025, 6:45 AM

Understanding Why Israelis Distrust the PA

For years, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been at a crossroads. The institution's troubled economic state, legitimacy deficit, and President Mahmoud Abbas’s old age have created uncertainty for the governing body’s future. Amid all these pressures, the PA has...

Apr 23, 2025, 2:51 PM

Ronen Bar warns of a clear and present danger to security and democracy

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and his affidavit, which was submitted to the High Court of Justice on April 21, 2025. (Photo of Ronen Bar by Kobi Gideon/ GPO; combo illustration by The Times of Israel)

His affidavit says he shouldn't have been fired - not to fight to keep his job, but to ensure the independence of the Shin Bet and his successor

Apr 5, 2025, 3:20 PM

Qatargate lays bare Israel’s gamble on Hamas rule

'[Qatar] is not an enemy country, and many praise it.' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a video statement on April 2, 2025. (Screen capture)

This isn’t just about media manipulation or shady payments, it's about a broken strategy that favored Palestinian division over resolution

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Apr 4, 2025, 9:10 AM

The Limits of Freedom: On Us – and On Our Leaders

Israel’s present government is trying to give itself far more freedom of action and policymaking by relatively weakening the judiciary – the judges as well as governmental judicial advisory civil servants (e.g., its in-house Attorney-General). The debate follows the...

Mar 20, 2025, 1:29 PM

In a Deep State of Denial and Deceit

With his tweet yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his efforts to tie his battles against Israel's "Deep State," with President Trump's sweeping moves against the civil service and the judiciary in the United States: In America and in Israel,...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Feb 4, 2025, 5:14 AM

Free speech messed up US life. How to solve this?

How is this difficult to answer? Guns are messing up society. What to do against it? How about taking away guns? Was that a hard puzzle to solve? The billionaires say: Are you crazy? What's wrong with making money? *** Free speech is messing...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Feb 2, 2025, 11:56 PM

The US small-stream left-wing analysts must unite

The fight against a common enemy doesn't need to be uniform I established before that the US mainstream left-wing media also don't inform but rather manipulate. But now, let's look at the US small-stream left-wing commentators. By now, they have started...

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