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Israel will be marking Shavuot – the festival commemorating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai – with a new state budget that prioritizes the...
Israel will be marking Shavuot – the festival commemorating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai – with a new state budget that prioritizes the...
The first major protest against the Israeli Supreme Court was held in Jerusalem on February 14, 1999, when an estimated 350,000 demonstrators called...
The first major protest against the Israeli Supreme Court was held in Jerusalem on February 14, 1999, when an estimated 350,000 demonstrators called...
Monday was a day of high drama in the Knesset. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated outside – those opposing the government’s judicial overhaul...
For decades, many Israelis have been waiting for the secular uprising. The moment when the majority of Israelis who are not ultra-Orthodox, who serve...
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Wednesday at a conference held by Haaretz’s business newspaper, TheMarker, that “the village of Hawara...
Reconnaissance unit commander Nikolay Romanenko took to the stage of Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on Wednesday with a song he apparently composed...
Among the many creative homemade signs on display at Monday’s massive pro-democracy rally in Jerusalem was one that genuinely surprised me. It was...
Over the last few days I’ve found myself in conversations I never imagined I’d ever have. Since these are conversations with Israelis, everything...
I asked a group of Jewish-American students this week to name the American Jew who’d had the most influence on today’s Israel. The automatic...
I asked a group of Jewish-American students this week to name the American Jew who’d had the most influence on today’s Israel. The automatic...
Sometimes 24 years in politics is quite a short time. At least it felt that way Wednesday evening after the High Court of Justice disqualified Arye...
There are two ways to say “civil war” in Hebrew. The more accurate and technical translation of the term is milchemet ezrachim – a war of...
At first sight, the flickering black-and-white scenes look familiar: Jewish pioneers, first on an agricultural training course somewhere back in...
At first sight, the flickering black-and-white scenes look familiar: Jewish pioneers, first on an agricultural training course somewhere back in...
Twelve years ago, when international soccer’s governing body FIFA announced that Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar would follow it in...
Twelve years ago, when international soccer’s governing body FIFA announced that Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar would follow it in...
I must own up to a rather perverse sense of excited anticipation at the imminent inauguration of the new Netanyahu government. It offers so much to an...
I must own up to a rather perverse sense of excited anticipation at the imminent inauguration of the new Netanyahu government. It offers so much to an...
Six weeks ago when the saga of Kanye West and his antisemitic statements erupted, some people explained it away as the by-product of psychological...
Six weeks ago when the saga of Kanye West and his antisemitic statements erupted, some people explained it away as the by-product of psychological...
I’ve been following how the ultra-Orthodox media reports inconvenient facts for the past 24 years, like when I read in the “Lithuanian”...
I’ve been following how the ultra-Orthodox media reports inconvenient facts for the past 24 years, like when I read in the “Lithuanian”...