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Apr 22, 2026, 12:15 AM

Putting Israel’s ‘democratic’ parties under the microscope

The Knesset, representative of the people, which currently grants government authority to govern. (Image from Knesset Website)

If a party that aspires to democracy and equality cannot maintain the rule of law, it cannot be expected to govern (and other failures)

Mihran Kalaydjian

Oct 25, 2025, 11:12 AM

Israel’s Future on the Ballot

Israel is approaching a defining election. The next Knesset vote will not simply determine who sits in the Prime Minister’s Office — it will decide whether Israel remains a cohesive, democratic, and forward-looking society, or continues to fracture under the...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

May 9, 2023, 7:12 AM

There is no rift between Ben Gvir and Netanyahu

It's all smoke and mirrors Even if Ben Gvir is fired or bolts the government, he will continue to support it from the outside because he knows not doing so means new elections in which the Right will be slaughtered....

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Apr 18, 2023, 10:06 AM

Why can’t Labor and Meretz not run jointly?

Beats me, or doesn't it? Israel has the anti-democratic rule of a threshold for the Knesset of 4 (out of 120) seats. The pretext is that a situation with too many small parties is unworkable. It is not, of course....

Mar 12, 2023, 10:28 AM

Israeli politicians push Facebook ad spend to 100M NIS

In recent months there has been an explosion of social and political content flowing through Israel's social platforms, and Facebook is cleaning up. In recent reports, provided by the Meta's own Ad Library, advertisers in Israel have invested more than...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 9, 2023, 9:31 PM

What Trump and Israel’s ultra-right have in common

For the ultra-right, I took Ministers Ben-Gevir and Smotrich They each were always smart and learned to wing it. Overconfidently, they rush into new waters, to become sorcerer's apprentices. They misrepresent what they stand for. Trump says he's for the People;...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Nov 18, 2022, 1:24 PM

It’s time for an umbrella party

Labor leader Merav Michaeli (left), Prime Minister Yair Lapid (center), and Meretz leader Zehava Galon (right). (Flash90)

If Meretz, Labor and Yesh Atid join together, they'll vie with Likud, and return Israel to the familiar healthy democracy that depends on two strong competing parties

Jonathan Schwartz

Oct 31, 2022, 11:02 AM

Round 5: The Block Game

Bennett’s party whittled down from 7 MK’s on election day, to 6 MK’s when the “Government of Change” was sworn in, to 5 and then 4 MK’s in practice, resulting in a loss of a working governing majority. Bennett...

Oct 11, 2022, 5:14 AM

Episode 3: Two states, solution?

When I was 22, I joined a group whose primary purpose was to debate and analyze the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from many different perspectives. I was one of the youngest members of this group. Many of my peers were around...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Oct 2, 2022, 5:50 AM

Angelic Attorneys & Heavenly Accusers

The great Tannaitic sage Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov said: “A person who performs one mitzvah acquires for himself one praklit. A person who violates one transgression acquires for himself one kategor" (Avot 4:11). In other words, if a person does a good...

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