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Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Aug 18, 2026, 6:17 PM

West Bank Outposts Are More Than an Enforcement Failure

Over the past week, Israeli settlers built an illegal outpost beside Palestinian homes in Qusra and blocked the families’ access to them. The first attempt to clear the outpost failed, and after clashes with settler activists who converged on...

Aug 13, 2026, 3:13 PM

Treasure Trove: Zionism Means Israel’s Election Involves Diaspora Jewry Too

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

If the original purpose of Zionism was to establish a home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, what is the purpose of Zionism once that home (the State of Israel) is established? That is the question...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Aug 13, 2026, 3:11 PM

All the king’s horses

In Parshat Shoftim, Dvarim 17:14-16 we learn about the rules for having a king: When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, should you say,...

Menachem Rosensaft

Aug 12, 2026, 8:47 PM

The Honorable, Non-Netanyahu, Anti-Netanyahu Face of Israel

In addition to fomenting and inciting violence against Jews, the anti-Israel agitators and demonstrators who demonize Israel as a state, Israelis, and supporters of Israel collectively with calls for “Death to Israel,” “Death to the IDF,” and “Death to...

Menachem Creditor

Aug 10, 2026, 6:59 PM

We Must Agree to Remain One Community (Shoftim)

Rabbi Yitzchak Yechiel Yaakovovitz z”l (1930–2019) served for 66 years as the chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Herzliya. A Haredi rabbi with deeply held convictions, he also understood that his sacred responsibility extended across the civic life of a diverse...

Mordechai de Haas

Aug 10, 2026, 6:27 PM

Welcome to Israel? How Border Control deported our relatives

This is what my sister-in-law saw after arrival. A couple of hours later she was deported.

(courtesy author)

Last week my wife’s brother and sister from the Philippines were refused passage by the Border Control at Ben Gurion airport and were subsequently deported to Manila. Disregarding all documents proving their good intentions, the Border Control acted cruel...

Aug 10, 2026, 8:17 AM

Israel Is Surrounded Today. Are You Aware of What Comes Next?

Since October 2023, Israel has fought on six fronts: Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Five of them were not countries in any useful sense. They were militias holding ground inside countries, armed and paid from the same...

Aug 4, 2026, 5:56 PM

We Know Good and Evil. Why Can’t We Choose Life?

When being right becomes the goal, relationships become collateral damage. Recently, I wanted to raise the subject of Israel’s military draft with my Haredi sister. I served in the Israeli army. She belongs to a community that understands Torah study and...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 4, 2026, 7:35 AM

Israel’s Reproductive Crisis

Israel Is Not Losing People. It Is Losing the Capacity to Replace What It Uses On the same day that new figures showed Israeli emigration remaining at record levels for a third consecutive year, a Knesset committee extended the emergency...

Aug 2, 2026, 12:54 PM

‘Enemy of the people’? A free press is democracy’s lifeblood

Violence against media outlets and journalists has become commonplace. Politicians on both the right and the left routinely declare their intention to shut down news organizations, and just last month the Knesset passed legislation that will dramatically affect Israel’s...

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