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Without a Standard of Reasonableness, there is no environment

This Week’s Speech at the Ashdod Protest Against the Government’s Legal Reforms: Good Evening Ashdod! My message today is a simple one: If there...

06.08.2023 20

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alon Tal

Memo to friends round the world: Stand with Israel, not its extremist government

I recently returned to Israel from a six-month sabbatical to Stanford University. On many occasions I had conversations about the Israeli...

26.07.2023 20

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alon Tal

As the Crisis Rages, Israel’s Government Offers an Anemic Climate Law

This coming week, the government will consider approving its proposed climate bill. To be sure, it is a step in the right direction.  But when one...

09.06.2023 20

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alon Tal

Meeting, Hardly Meeting: The beauty of inaccessible love

Hanan Yovel Words: Rachel the Poet Music: Hanan Yovel * * * It was sometime around midnight in late 1981. We had been helicoptered and bussed back...

26.04.2023 10

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alon Tal

A Theory of Justice as the Basis for Negotiations about the Judiciary  

Negotiations have hardly begun at the President’s Residence and already extremists from the Netanyahu coalition have started the blame game. Their...

31.03.2023 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alon Tal

Israel is not New Zealand:

Why the Proposed Judicial Reform Should Not Swap Judicial Review for Non-binding Declarations of Discontent The battle to preserve Israel’s...

23.02.2023 20

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alon Tal

Who protects the law? The greatest danger of the judicial reform

Perhaps the most ill-advised of the reforms to the judicial system that the present government is promoting involves the cancellation of the...

18.01.2023 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alon Tal

The new government’s very bad environmental start

For the first time in Israel’s history, narrow partisan politics has been deployed against the environment of the land and the health of its...

08.01.2023 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alon Tal

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