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Jonathan Shavit

Feb 16, 2026, 6:14 AM

Election year and the importance of the Arab Israeli vote

The opportunity for Israelis to exercise their democratic right is once again upon them. While Israeli society has shown in the past two years that it succeeds in coming together in the most wonderful ways, at the ballot box...

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...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Feb 10, 2023, 10:22 AM

Israel’s Arab Sector: Best and Worst of Times

Here’s a head scratching, Israeli paradox. An increasing number of Israeli Arabs have entered the middle class in professions such as medicine (doctors, pharmacists, nurses), education (teachers, principals), and government administration (civilian and even army). That’s the good news....

Jul 5, 2022, 6:02 PM

Bennett and the experiment – Israel in transition

Naftali Bennett already entered the history books as the shortest serving PM of the state. Clearly, he wanted to have his entry under more glorious circumstances. He may still gain this as we shall reflect on his term with...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Mar 25, 2022, 10:59 AM

Political Islam on the Wane

We all have strong memories of “bad news” from the past, and tend not to focus on good news, especially when it occurs incrementally. So it’s not surprising if the above headline surprises you. But it’s quite accurate. Here...

Tamar Adelstein

Jan 19, 2022, 9:48 AM

The Broken Circuit in the Electricity Law

BS"D Last week on Thursday, January 13th, Crown Heights Women for the Safety and Integrity of Israel, invited Naomi Kahn, the International Director for Regavim to join us for a lunchbreak conversation about events taking place in the Negev with...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jan 14, 2022, 9:47 AM

Putting Israel’s GINI Back in the Bottle

Remember poor, egalitarian Israel? The good news: it is no longer poor by any standard. The bad news: it ranks very high among the major OECD countries in socio-economic inequality. How did it get to this point? And how...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Dec 31, 2021, 4:14 PM

‘The Law of the Land is the Law’: For Israeli Arabs Too

Israel has had many “firsts” in its relatively young life, but the latest is highly controversial: for the first time a purely Arab party has joined the government. And not just “any” Arab party; an Islamist one (RA’AM), to...

Nov 2, 2021, 2:28 PM

Bennett and Co. are the greatest threat to Zionism since Oslo

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) talks with Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamic Ra'am party, during a special session to vote on the new government at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2021. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP)

Like Rabin before him, Israel’s first religious prime minister has reneged on core security commitments, all the while receiving far too much applause from the right

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 29, 2021, 10:42 AM

Judaism and Cancel Culture

One of the central divisive issues in America today is “Cancel Culture.” Less known is that Israel has its own Cancel Culture issues as well. The question is what does Judaism have to say about the phenomenon? There isn’t much...

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