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Apr 10, 2025, 2:03 PM

Day 551 Of The War: How Can We Remain Hopeful?

The well respected Tzipi Livni in Habima Saturday night, my photo

On Saturday night in Habima Square, thousands of people stood listening to the warnings of respected political leaders like Tzipi Livni and Yoav Segalovich. Both had previously held high-level positions in the Israeli security services before retiring and entering...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Nov 15, 2024, 6:55 AM

All Fired Up: Bibi’s Hatchet

What do these four Israeli politicians – Mordechai, Yaalon, Lieberman, Gallant – uniquely share in common? Yes, they all served as Defense Ministers (DMs) over the past few decades, but so did some others. Their special common denominator: all...

Jul 14, 2024, 1:44 PM

Day 282 Of The War: Collective War Journal And Kaplan

My photo of Tzipi Livni on stage in Kaplan last night

Sometime last December, about three months after October 7 and the beginning of the war, I came across a call for papers. It was highly unusual: three faculty members from the School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University...

Jun 18, 2019, 2:43 PM

The Failure of the Election Cannot Be Blamed on the Electoral Threshold

When an election campaign fails or a political party does not keep its promises to the public and to its supporters in particular, there is a tendency to justify this failure by blaming the electoral threshold. However, the electoral...

Apr 24, 2019, 2:14 PM

It’s the 21st century, yet some still don’t know it

Top Tzipi Livni and Gerer Rebbe Yaakov Aryeh Alter. Bottom, Ayelet Shaked and Tamar Zandberg

I’m writing this before Pesach has even started in the knowledge that it will be pretty much over by the time people get to read this in the print edition of the Jewish News. So I hope you all have/have...

Feb 24, 2019, 1:42 PM

The Labor Party may have handed Bibi the election

Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor Party (C), with Labor party parliament members (R-L) Amir Peretz, Stav Shaffir, Itzik Shmuli and Shelly Yachimovich at a party meeting in Tel Aviv on February 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Avi Gabbay's refusal to merge with Meretz means thousands of votes for the left could potentially go down the drain

Feb 19, 2019, 12:56 PM

A Eulogy to Livni and Idealist Politics

One of my positions in the 2008 Kadima leadership elections was leading the ‘Undecided Voters Division’ for Tzipi Livni. I oversaw 200 volunteers who manned phone banks to map out the party electorate. We would note who the undecided...

Feb 18, 2019, 2:39 PM

Hatnua party head Tzipi Livni holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The lawmaker who is leaving politics was repeatedly left holding the bag, but she plowed on and changed Israel for the better

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jan 25, 2019, 4:40 PM

Where are the exemplary leaders?

In Parshat Yitro, Moshe is overwhelmed with judging the nation on his own. Yitro, Moshe’s father in law noticed this and told Moshe that he will wear himself out if he continues to do everything on his own. Yitro’s suggestion...

Shulamit S. Magnus

Jan 3, 2019, 7:08 PM

Rank misogyny in the Israeli electoral campaign

Tzipi Livni is the rare politician with coherent, and consistent positions -- and yet she's still 'just' a female

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