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Comedy for Koby’s Dan Ahdoot: Why Falafel Phil and overtipping hold the keys to peace

Dan Ahdoot, New York-born son of Iranian Jewish immigrants, was well on his way to becoming a doctor. He had completed all the premed course...

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Echoes of the Judean People’s Front: Monty Python’s in Jerusalem, and it isn’t funny

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01.06.2023 30

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Netanyahu did the unthinkable with the budget. What’s he planning for the judiciary?

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25.05.2023 30

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Ad-libbed at the General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas’s full-blown rejectionism

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18.05.2023 40

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Israel’s Gaza operation met its goals in seconds; trouble is, it went on for 5 days

At a joint appearance last Wednesday, late on the second day of Israel’s Operation Shield and Arrow against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror...

14.05.2023 40

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At the root of the latest Gaza-Israel flareup, implacable rejection of Israel

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10.05.2023 40

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A reminder from Gaza: Israel dare not be distracted or divided

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03.05.2023 10

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Israel at 75: ‘Only together can we reach our goals’

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26.04.2023 20

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Herzog’s global Jewish dialogue initiative is laudable, as long as it’s not too late

President Isaac Herzog used his address to the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Tel Aviv on Sunday night to announce plans...

24.04.2023 30

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How to heal a rift: Don’t exclude Haredim from IDF; include them in national service

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20.04.2023 40

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Netanyahu belatedly reverses course on Gallant. If only he’d do the same on autocracy

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11.04.2023 20

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Our enemies smell weakness

Less than two weeks ago, on Saturday night, March 25, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s minister of defense, addressed the nation and issued an alert: “By...

07.04.2023 30

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‘In every generation’: Why Seder is the time to discuss a path out of Israel’s crisis

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05.04.2023 80

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The minister behind the overhaul admits a dire blunder, falsely claims he’s fixed it

Two weeks ago, Yariv Levin, the justice minister who is spearheading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s power grab, gave the most astonishing...

04.04.2023 30

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As crisis engulfs ties with US, an opportunity emerges… if only PM would take it

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29.03.2023 30

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Why Netanyahu paused the march of tyranny and nobody who loves Israel can rejoice yet

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his key coalition allies on Monday morning that he saw no alternative other than to pause their...

28.03.2023 100

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Firing his defense minister, Netanyahu lifts public anger at his rule to new heights

It’s two in the morning, and hundreds of mainly young Israelis, having spent hours chanting and marching through the streets of Jerusalem, are...

27.03.2023 100

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With dire public warning, Gallant tries to compel Netanyahu to put state before self

As the vast crowds made their way along Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street on Saturday night, for their twelfth successive week of escalating protests against...

26.03.2023 90

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Netanyahu crushes a potential mini-revolt, insists on politicizing the judiciary

A day of extraordinary drama in the bitterly divided State of Israel — which saw escalated protests against the government’s imminent judicial...

24.03.2023 40

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This Passover, Israel will recall ancient freedom under the threat of modern tyranny

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22.03.2023 20

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When Herzog’s bid to save democracy crashed into Netanyahu’s dash for absolute power

Barely a week ago, President Isaac Herzog told Israelis that in marathon behind-the-scenes discussions under his aegis, a compromise agreement on the...

16.03.2023 30

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A last, desperate, long-shot plea: Prime Minister Netanyahu, stop this madness

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15.03.2023 100

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A speech, a sacking and a terror attack underline that Netanyahu must change course

Ignored for weeks by the Netanyahu coalition, President Isaac Herzog on Thursday night resorted to apocalyptic terms to describe the existential...

10.03.2023 90

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Crunch time for Israeli democracy

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08.03.2023 50

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Pilots’ alarm shows Israel now in danger of entering a death spiral

On Friday, dozens of Israeli pilots — reservists who remain engaged in active service — met with the head of the Israel Air Force to raise burning...

05.03.2023 40

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As Israel implodes, does nobody in Netanyahu’s Likud have the guts to defy him?

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01.03.2023 60

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Sharansky: No, Israel is not becoming Russia, but we need broad consensus on reforms

Natan Sharansky, the former Prisoner of Zion and icon of the struggle for Soviet Jewry, is adamant that the judicial overhaul package being advanced...

28.02.2023 70

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Israeli experts removed, rebuilt top of iconic Tower of David amid fears of collapse

Experts in recent months completely removed the top of Jerusalem’s iconic Tower of David and rebuilt it, using a mix of mainly new stones combined...

25.02.2023 20

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Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul threatens to bulldoze the Declaration of Independence

Barely seven weeks after the coalition was sworn in, it easily secured Knesset approval overnight Monday-Tuesday for the first reading of a law that...

21.02.2023 40

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Once the legal barriers are cleared away, the abuse will inevitably follow

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16.02.2023 50

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Israeli flags as far as the eye can see, as protesters plead for an overhaul rethink

Somewhere far off in the distance, hundreds of yards away, closer to the Knesset, opposition leaders were speaking. But here, all along Jerusalem’s...

13.02.2023 50

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Herzog sets out reasonable terms for reform, but is Netanyahu ready to listen?

Emotional and earnest, President Isaac Herzog on Sunday night set out five largely reasonable and commonsense proposals for Israeli judicial change,...

13.02.2023 40

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Demolition of Israeli democracy starts next week; Netanyahu must heed Herzog’s plea

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10.02.2023 50

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Diplomatically but firmly, Blinken advises Netanyahu not to harm Israeli democracy

With the prime minister at his side, visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday issued a diplomatic, but unmistakable, highly detailed...

30.01.2023 30

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Netanyahu truly aims to be ‘King Bibi’ now. We must use all legal means to thwart him

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25.01.2023 20

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Tragically, Deri’s ‘great revolution’ will continue even if he can’t outflank court

Utterly without shame, bribery convict and tax offender Aryeh Deri has responded to the High Court’s unsurprising determination that his return to...

22.01.2023 50

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High Court ruling against Deri amplifies threat of war between coalition, judiciary

The High Court’s almost unanimous ruling that Aryeh Deri cannot serve as a minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was fairly unsurprising....

18.01.2023 30

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Constitutional crisis looms, as Supreme Court president shows she won’t go quietly

As of Thursday evening, the only two potent branches of Israeli governance — the executive and the judiciary — are openly at war. Two weeks into...

13.01.2023 30

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Here comes the new regime in Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘democratic dictatorship’

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12.01.2023 100

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Justice minister sounds death knell for Israel’s inadequately protected democracy

Unveiling proposals to “reform” Israel’s judiciary, Justice Minister Yariv Levin on Wednesday night sounded the death knell for our thriving but...

05.01.2023 70

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Ben Gvir is a pyromaniac, but it’s Netanyahu who has given him the matches

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04.01.2023 10

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Hanukkah 2022, when Netanyahu began turning out the lights on Israeli democracy

Israel, our beloved Jewish and democratic state, is at risk of being taken apart by its own democratically elected incoming government. A toxic slurry...

25.12.2022 60

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He won the elections over 7 weeks ago. So why is Netanyahu still not back in power?

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22.12.2022 30

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Don’t mess with the Law of Return

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15.12.2022 50

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Netanyahu appoints Smotrich de facto PM of the West Bank, gambles on restraining him

In its four pages of closely typed text, the coalition “appendix” deal signed and released earlier this week by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and...

08.12.2022 80

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Conceding to extremists, Netanyahu hatches intolerant, alienating, vulnerable Israel

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