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Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Apr 17, 2019, 6:24 PM

The emergence of a large political center in Israel

"The Right won, the Left lost" is all smoke and mirrors

Dmitri Shufutinsky

Apr 17, 2019, 11:04 AM

Rethinking the Israeli Left-Right Paradigm

The recent victory of the right-wing Likud Party in the Israeli elections has been decried by analysts as the end of the peace process with the Palestinians. Others have said it displays the death of a progressive movement in...

Apr 16, 2019, 5:33 PM

A Unity Government to End the Haredi Quagmire

Everyone benefits, especially haredim To date no one has been able to articulate any genuine, deep-seated policy differences between Likud and Blue and White. Perhaps this is because the latter, correctly, did not bother to work up a platform other...

Apr 15, 2019, 12:57 PM

Post-election doomsayers: Just stop, please

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin attend a memorial event for fallen IDF soldiers in Jerusalem, April 14, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

When all the ballots were finally counted, my Facebook feed filled with exclamations of depression. A bit melodramatic, I thought. I also wondered how many here in the U.S. actually understand not just how Israel’s parliamentary system works, but...

Benjamin Kurzweil

Apr 12, 2019, 7:08 AM

Soon on the Moon

Next year in Jerusalem or soon on the Moon? Oops, Beresheet just went crazy - like a baboon! Small country, big dreams; white shirts, and blue jeans. Oops, Blue&White said: "I wish I could, become like Likud!" In Israel long time ago, in Jericho they went...

Apr 11, 2019, 11:40 PM

Netanyahu owes Israeli Arabs an apology and more

A mosque in Akka, Israel. Akka (also called Akko in Hebrew) is a coastal city in Northern Israel. About 25% of its population is Arab.

The Likud party has admitted being involved in using hidden cameras (estimated at 1,200) at polling stations on Election Day, and Israel’s Central Elections Committee called this activity “a violation of election law”. A public relations firm that works...

Gedalyah Reback

Apr 11, 2019, 1:28 AM

Re-open polling stations in the Arab sector

Hidden cameras at polling stations confiscated from operatives of Kaizler Inbar, who had been retained by Likud (Screenshot, Twitter, @samiaah10)

The disgraceful boast by a Likud PR firm that their hidden camera ploy cut voting in half should prompt an extraordinary response

Apr 9, 2019, 6:22 PM

Palestinian conflict is the elephant in the room

Edited by Rachel Gould, Ph.D candidate in Public Policy at Tel Aviv University Just days before the election that may usher in the end of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 10-year term, the longest in Israeli history, as Prime Minister of...

Apr 8, 2019, 1:27 AM

Right-wing Religious Zionists for Zehut

As an anglo religious Zionist I want to share with you why I am voting for Zehut and not for any of the run-of-the-mill religious right-wing parties. It is not that I disagree with the values of those parties...

Apr 7, 2019, 1:04 PM

Likud’s New Campaign Promise: Fateful Decisions from Up Against the Ropes

Many of us awoke to the same announcement this morning: Prime Minister Netanyahu has announced that in his next term—if he is reelected—he will extend Israeli sovereignty to all the settlements in the West Bank. This would be a...

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