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Allon Khakshouri

Jul 24, 2026, 6:08 PM

The Crossroads That Doesn’t Look Like One

Suitcases are being packed with a question. This election should be the answer. On October 27, Israelis vote. The choice on the ballot is which party. The choice beneath it is whether the covenant that holds this country together still...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jul 24, 2026, 8:46 AM

AI, AI, AI (Yiddish for ‘Trouble Ahead’): Depends On Whom You Ask

The “news” is almost always about what’s happening “today.” Yet, when historians and the public look back years later, this distancing perspective offers a completely different picture. So while right now Israelis are into the upcoming elections (as are...

Jul 24, 2026, 3:43 AM

Israel may replace Netanyahu without replacing Netanyahuism

The far-right currents that have consumed Israeli politics since October 7 are not irreversible. Reversing them, however, would require a deliberate political choice that none of the leading candidates has made central to his campaign. Netanyahu may leave office, but the messianic ethnonationalism he empowered, the institutions it reshaped, and the territorial realities it created will survive his departure. (AI-generated).

On Sunday, July 19 – two days after Israel’s 25th Knesset completed its statutory term and exactly 100 days before the October 27 election – Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir joined settlers and...

Jul 23, 2026, 11:42 PM

Who’s Afraid of Einat Wilf?

Photo by Juan Algar / Freerange Stock

First, full disclosure: I volunteer with Einat Wilf’s Oz party - I’ve followed Einat’s eye-opening analyses for years, find her one of the most innovative, insightful, and brutally logical thinkers on all things Israel and anti-Israel, and was thrilled...

Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz

Jul 23, 2026, 1:24 PM

What Israel in 2026 can learn from the Prophet Jeremiah

(L-R) Shin Bet chief David Zini, Central Elections Committee chairman Noam Sohlberg and President Isaac Herzog hold a meeting at the President's Residence, July 9, 2026. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Anger, responsibility, and hope: Lamentations' 3 lessons for discourse in a contentious election year

Jul 23, 2026, 9:32 AM

Should Israel’s democracy require a plane ticket?

A few weeks ago, I was on a call with a founder I've interviewed before. He told me the story of a woman in New York City who has lived there for 17 years. She has three kids and...

Jul 22, 2026, 3:44 PM

How AI is Changing Election Campaigns

Artificial Intelligence is about to completely transform election campaigns. Not by changing democracy itself, but by changing what campaigns choose to compete over. Traditionally political campaigns have been judged on the quality of their ideas, the discipline of their messaging,...

Yitzhak Irving Kalet

Jul 20, 2026, 6:51 PM

The Beginning of the End

I just voted in the primaries of the Democratic Party of Israel headed by Yair Golan. This hopefully is “the beginning of the end” of the Bibi government. This is the first positive step that I as an Israeli...

Jul 20, 2026, 12:57 PM

Flying home to vote

(AI)

I'll make a quick trip from Europe not because I want to earn the right to criticize the next government, but because I want there to be less to criticize

Jul 20, 2026, 4:42 AM

Treasure Trove: Don’t Forget the Justice Part of Zionism (A Note for Tisha B’Av)

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by Kevin Viner, Elevator Digital, Toronto used with permission.

There is a Jewish story told about Napoleon. He once travelled through a Jewish small town in Europe and entered a synagogue where he witnessed men and women sitting on the floor weeping. Napoleon asked what terrible misfortune had...

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