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Daniel Chamovitz

Jul 26, 2026, 6:13 PM

Five laws for the Negev, not five culture wars

Approaching the Beersheba Central railway station. (Shabatashtiot, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

The coalition just proved it can pass divisive bills at breakneck speed. Imagine using that same discipline to bring physicians, rail, research, and jobs to the south

Jul 26, 2026, 12:52 PM

An Armed Fringe Is Not Defending Israel. It Is Hijacking the State

A sovereign state alone determines where its soldiers fight, which civilian presence it can defend and how it resolves the political future of millions of Palestinians. No faction may manufacture danger, commandeer the army, convert casualties into political authority...

Jul 26, 2026, 12:46 PM

The government that abandoned Israel’s environment

Garbage sullies the landscape of Israel's National Trail: Symbolic of the systemic environmental failure of Israel's present government.

The coalition's failures reach beyond security and democracy to the air, water, and climate policies that will shape Israel's future for generations

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 18, 2026, 5:26 PM

Israel’s catastrophes are 100% human-made

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The Israeli electoral process is turning toxic, but I believe it will recover if we stand together against the noxious rule of religion and corruption

Maximillian Hollander

Jul 17, 2026, 5:45 AM

Who Will Judge Our Judges?

Devarim begins with Moshe’s admonishment of the Jewish people for their failures. The way Moshe described the nation’s judges underscores a particular failing of these leaders. And it’s a failure we are still grappling with today. In Shemot, the judicial system...

Jul 16, 2026, 3:27 PM

The Destruction of the Temple and Israel’s Government of Destruction

The opening words of this week’s haftarah are among the most shocking in the Bible: “Hear the word of the Lord, rulers of Sodom; give ear to the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah.” Isaiah is not addressing Sodom and Gomorrah....

Sarah Segal-Katz

Jul 14, 2026, 1:50 PM

Gender segregation does not remove barriers. It builds a wall

Gender-segregation signage on Hizkiyahu HaMelech Street in Katamon, Jerusalem, during a Hachnasat Sefer Torah ceremony (2018). The Yiddish signs direct men and women to separate walking routes. (Sarah Segal-Katz)

A proposed law doesn't just permit more separate university classrooms. It reshapes academia, with profound consequences for women and Israeli democracy

Michael Zoosman

Jul 10, 2026, 7:06 PM

The death penalty only unlocks a Pandora’s Box of more terror and killing

In his June 11 op-ed for the Jerusalem Report, ex-Shin Bet official Moshe Fuzaylov claims that “(t)he death penalty isn't revenge, it's how terror loses its key.” Mr. Fuzaylov concludes that executions form part of “a vital pincer movement...

Daphne Lazar Price

Jul 9, 2026, 10:41 PM

What Moses Would Ask the Knesset: Parshat Matot–Masei and the Haredi Draft Bill

The bill now before the Knesset that would elevate Torah study into Basic Law and effectively treat it as a substitute for traditional sherut leumi or military service is being sold as a victory for Jewish values. It is...

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