The Ugliness of Far-right Lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir

Siri, what is ugliness? Ugliness is Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir going to Kaplan Hospital to visit a Palestinian administrative detainee who has...

Israel Has a Bipolitical Government and the Ministers Have Come Out of the Closet

What’s up with Ayelet Shaked? Which camp is she in? There she is, the interior minister, smiling in pictures with the left-wing female ministers,...

The Demographic Obsession: Why Israel Doesn't Really Want to Stop Arab Crime

“There is no avoiding the conclusion that the fiscal discrimination as well as the flowering of organized crime and Arab society’s decline into...

The Israeli Left’s Perfect Excuse to Be Feeble

I’ll begin by stating that this column isn’t going to end by saying that Benjamin Netanyahu would be preferable after all. Nor will it answer the...

Israeli Officer Attacks Leftists, and Rightists Decry ‘Tying the Soldiers’ Hands’ An Israeli Officer Attacks Leftists, and Rightists Complain About ‘Tying the Soldiers’ Hands’

So, at the end of an investigation, he was only reprimanded – the officer who attacked left-wing activists from the group Combatants for Peace who...

Arab Cooperation, Courtesy of Israel’s Cruelty

The speed with which four of the six Palestinians who escaped from Gilboa Prison were caught shows that if you’re an Arab, the space outside the...

The Lapid-Bennett Government Is Learning That Apolitical Politics Is a Myth

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid gave journalist Ofira Asayag a description of what seems to be his view of the ideal “user experience” for Israelis in...

The Assault Weapon of the Israeli Army's Spokesperson's Unit

With all due respect to “multidimensional,” “integrational,” “variability” and other words in Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi’s new lingo,...

Annat Kamm Is No Traitor, She's the Betrayed

Anat Kamm isn’t a traitor – she is the betrayed. She was betrayed not by the State of Israel, but by the left wing. She acted for its sake, and...

A Boy Was Killed. No One Cares

“The public interest” is obvious to everyone. No one can dispute what Israelis care about and what they couldn’t care less about. Over the past...

An Old Holocaust Joke Is No Reason to Fire Tokyo Ceremony Director An Old Holocaust Joke Is No Reason to Fire Tokyo Opening Ceremony Director

How do you say “driver” in Japanese? Well, in Hebrew the old joke is ishimoto, man with an auto. It could be that I’ve just dug my own grave,...

Netanyahu, Longtime Inciter Against the Arabs, Is the New National Legitimizer

Israel has escaped its political impasse but has fallen into political vertigo. The categories “right” and “left” are no longer useful to...

In a Moment of Honesty, Lapid Revealed Israel’s Antidemocratic Essence

Yair Lapid decided to speak honestly. “We shouldn’t hide the essence of the Citizenship Law,” he said. “It’s one of the tools aimed at...

With Bennett as Prime Minister, Political Power Is in Israeli Settlers’ Hands

No problem. We can continue being infuriated by Likud legislator David Amsalem’s outrageous style of speech. Did you know that he screamed this week...

A Civil War Is Brewing, and Will Only Worsen if Ignored

It’s impossible to sever the return of police batons from the broader context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These batons weren’t brought...

Israeli Prime Minister Bennett Is Channeling John Lennon

Our principle, Naftali Bennett declared in his inaugural address, is this. “(W)e will forge forward on that which we agree – and there is much we...

Was This the Mistake of Netanyahu's Life?

Arye Dery, the so-called guarantor of the rotation agreement between Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, said on the radio Thursday that Netanyahu...

The Victory of Israel's Far-right Religious Zionism

Following the political drama is like watching “Homeland”: The agents spend so much time undercover they no longer know who they are. With so many...

Israel's Debasement of Words

Judging by the level of public interest, Israelis weren’t bothered by the fact that the Israel Defense Forces used the foreign media as undercover...

To End the Chaos, Establish a Palestinian State

Any way you look at it, whether the focus is on Gaza, the West Bank or the internal tension vis-à-vis Israel’s Arab citizens, the solution to the...

Once Again in Israel, Hate Meets Fear and Sanity Is Lost

“The silent majority is in shock and can’t believe its eyes,” President Reuven Rivlin said when asked to comment on the violent riots in Israel....

Will the post-Netanyahu Israel Include Arabs in the Collective ‘We’?

Famous TV journalist Yaron London just couldn’t identify with the Mount Meron catastrophe. “I feel about this disaster and its victims around the...

Israel’s Jocular Right-wing Journalists and Their ‘Final Rulings’

The morning after Likud’s Ofir Akunis was appointed justice minister, an illegal decision that was later overturned, I happened to listen to a radio...

Netanyahu’s Rivals Did a Job on Him Just Like in the Movies

Like many others, I too received on WhatsApp the GIF of Likud defector Gideon Sa’ar winking behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s back. Such excitement that...

To Stop Netanyahu, Take Away His One Advantage Over Political Rivals

The political gridlock serves Benjamin Netanyahu well, since as long as no new government is formed, he continues to serve as caretaker prime...

How Russian and Arab Israelis ‘Castled’

The political imbroglio of the past two years is the result of Benjamin Netanyahu’s political divorce from Avigdor Lieberman. The reason for...

Israel's Leftists Will Have to Put Their Egos Aside

Since the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, the left has been afraid to form a political alliance with Arab parties. For good reason....

Who Cares What Pushed Netanyahu Into Arab Israelis' Arms? It's a Revolution Israel Election Results: Who Cares What Pushed Netanyahu Into the Arab Israelis' Arms? It's a Revolution

Good morning, Mansour Abbas. Who could believe it? Likud’s Tzachi Hanegbi has defended the option of forming a government supported by Abbas and his...

Perfect Storm Brings Arab Israelis Into the Political Mix

When Avigdor Lieberman and Benjamin Netanyahu decided in 2013 to raise the electoral threshold to 3.25 percent, they wanted to reduce Arabs...

Let Electoral Nature Take Its Course, Even if It Means Some Parties Need to Die

Civil Alternatives Will Help Israel Maintain ‘Purity of Religion’

Vaccines and Palestinians: Israel Just Needs to Be Human

Israel's Faction of Fact-checkers Misses the Point

If Netanyahu Is Convicted, the 'Second' Israel Will Be Dethroned

A Brief History of Israel’s Political Drama

Bibism Is Bigger Than Bibi

I, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hereby Declare...

Netanyahu’s Wooing of Arab Voters Unwittingly Sets an Important Precedent

Israel Needs a Palestine National Fund

Could Netanyahu, the Leftophobe, Be a Closeted Leftist?

Israel’s High Court Judges Are Playing Dumb About the Nation-state Law

'Anyone but Bibi' Must Have Its Limits

Another Round of Israeli Elections Would Be a Waste of Money

This Registrar's Ruling Shames Even the Jewish Nation-state Law

The Confused List

Other Job Opportunities for Netanyahu

Could Netanyahu's Curse on the Arab Community Become a Blessing?

Which Israeli Cares About Palestinian Hunger Striker Maher Akhras?

Netanyahu, Are You an Israeli Leader or a Jewish Leader?

Netanyahu Mirrors 'Trump Style'; Election Defeat Could Mean a Change of Tack