It’s Time for an Israel-Gaza Cease-fire

A raft of victory photos hang on the walls of Israel’s Hall of Glory. They haven’t been won in the current round of fighting, waiting for a...

Deserting anti-Netanyahu Coalition Talks, Bennett Gave in to Pressure

The horrific sights of the last few days in Acre, Bat Yam and Or Akiva – mob attacks on Arabs and Jews, businesses vandalized and thugs terrorizing...

Bennett Gave in to Pressure by Deserting Coalition Talks

The horrific sights of the last few days in Acre, Bat Yam and Or Akiva – mob attacks on Arabs and Jews, businesses vandalized and thugs terrorizing...

Replacing Netanyahu Is More Urgent Than Ever

Israel is once again on the brink of a broad military confrontation in the Gaza Strip. The rocket barrages fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Israeli...

Israelis Don’t Need More Lethal Muscle-flexing

The events of Jerusalem Day on Monday needlessly escalated to the point that rockets were fired at Jerusalem and southern Israel adjacent to the Gaza...

An Immoral March

The quiet in Jerusalem has been seriously undermined over the past few days, and the situation is likely to get even worse on Monday because of the...

Did You Sign This, Professor?

Education Minister Yoav Gallant can be pleased. Not for his personal conduct or for the way his ministry functioned during the coronavirus crisis, but...

Put Out the Fire in Jerusalem

On Friday, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, tens of thousands of Muslims prayed in the mosques on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. When...

Bennett Will Join Lapid if He Really Cares About Israel

Fifty-six Knesset members recommended to President Reuven Rivlin that the mandate for forming a government be given to Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid....

60-year-old Palestinian Woman's Suicide Mission Should Keep Israelis Up at Night

In his speech on the eve of Memorial Day, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi said that soldiers’ behavior “should be a model of good citizenship, an...

As Palestinians Face the Pandemic Unprotected, Israel's Vaccine Rate Is Worthless As Palestinians Face the Pandemic Unprotected, Israel's Vaccination Rate Is Worthless

Israel’s impressive and remarkable achievement of vaccinating most of its population against the coronavirus cannot be considered complete as long...

A Commission of Inquiry Into the Mount Meron Tragedy Is Needed

After each multiple-victim civilian disaster in Israel in recent decades, the identity of the people responsible could clearly be noted. The courts...

Netanyahu's Time Is Up. Rivlin, Give Someone Else the Mandate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mandate to form a new government will end Tuesday night. After the terrible disaster at Mount Meron, the...

It’s Yair Lapid’s Turn

The mandate that President Reuven Rivlin gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to form a government expires at midnight Tuesday. As of Monday...

Why Benny Gantz Must Be Israel's Next Justice Minister

It’s hard to think of a clearer case of conflict of interest: Criminal defendant Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of a transition government,...

Despite It All, Naftali Bennett

The talks to form a national unity government headed by Yamina Chairman Naftali Bennett, that would put an end to the toxic regime of Benjamin...

Racism and Incitement in Jerusalem

Thursday’s events in Jerusalem are a stain on Israel’s leadership, on the Israel Police and on Israeli society. For long hours, hundreds of angry...

Likud Makes Its ‘Arrangements’

On Sunday the “Netanyahu bloc” was defeated in the vote on the composition of the Knesset Arrangements Committee. This is the key committee, the...

Lighting a Fire in Jerusalem

Violence has returned to Jerusalem’s streets. As in previous waves of violence, it’s hard to put a finger on the exact moment when it began or to...

Netanyahu, Go on to the Next Trick

The latest trial balloon launched this week by Shas party chairman Arye Dery was another attempt to circumvent the law for Prime Minister Benjamin...

Jerusalem of Concrete

Netanyahu Can't Be Trusted to Keep Israel Out of War With Iran

A series of widely reported attacks on targets in Iran and Iranian ships that were attributed to Israel reached a peak with the explosion at the...

Netanyahu Is Not the State

The events preceding Independence Day have become symbols of Israel statehood. One can criticize the exclusion of certain populations or the poor...

Denying Top Prize to Leftist Mathematician: A Dark Independence for Israel

Nothing better illustrates Israel’s situation on the eve of its 73rd Independence Day than the decision to withhold the Israel Prize for mathematics...

Don’t Cooperate With Ariel

The last excuse given for Education Minister Yoav Gallant’s decision not to award the Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science to Professor...

Israel, a Country Fleeing Its Past

Last Tuesday’s High Court of Justice ruling, which upheld the state’s argument that declassifying historical Shin Bet security service documents...

Israel Police's Attack on Parliamentary Immunity

The assault by police on MK Ofer Cassif during a demonstration in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Friday should shock the entire...

An Israel Prize for the Occupation

The High Court of Justice provided valuable ammunition Thursday to the forces that persecute and silence all criticism of the Israeli occupation in...

Cease Fire, Gallant: Give Israel Prize to Radical Mathematician

Education Minister Yoav Gallant has kept up his pathetic efforts to look for action in his ministry. Recently he refused twice to confirm an Israel...

Cease Fire, Gallant: Give Israel Prize to Radical Mathematician

President Rivlin Could Have Made a Different Choice Israel Election: President Rivlin Could Have Made a Different Choice

“I fear for my country,” President Reuven Rivlin confessed a moment before asking Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government. With all due respect to...

Don't Give Netanyahu the Mandate to Form a Government

President Reuven Rivlin cannot give Benjamin Netanyahu the mandate to form a government. That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from...

Despite It All, Netanyahu's Still a Defendant

Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s indefatigable, no-holds-barred attempts to abuse his power to evade justice, on Monday the Jerusalem...

Israel Should Not Interfere in Iran Nuclear Talks

Representatives of Iran and the partners to the nuclear agreement with Tehran are expected to meet in Vienna Tuesday to discuss reviving the deal....

Netanyahu, Stay for the Testimony

This Monday, the evidentiary stage in the trial of Benjamin Netanyahu, Shaul Elovitch, Iris Elovitch and Arnon Mozes will begin in Jerusalem District...

The Prime Minister Is Unfit to Be President

Thursday is admittedly April 1, but this is not a practical joke: In the effort to find an exit from the political dead end in which the state has...

Not Enough Vaccines for All the Political Spin

Last week’s election didn’t change a thing in the policy of political spin adopted by the Likud party and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. The...

Protect Israel's Natural Spaces

Millions of Israelis are experiencing this Passover as a true holiday of liberation, with the lifting of restrictions imposed to curb the spread of...

Netanyahu, Don't Endanger the Stability With Jordan

Among the headlines that the elected representatives of Israel’s Arab citizens are finally being accepted as equal partners in a future coalition,...

A Stain on the Knesset

A benighted party composed of racists and homophobes was elected this week to the Knesset. One should not make light of this worrisome development....

Mansour Abbas, Don’t Believe Netanyahu Israel Election Results: Mansour Abbas, Don’t Believe Netanyahu

When it became known that United Arab List had crossed the electoral threshold and could win as many as five seats, party leader MK Mansour Abbas...

Israel Election Results: Is It Kahanist Ben-Gvir That Bothers You?

A list that in Europe would have been classified straight away as neo-Nazi has just made it into the Knesset. There is no other way to describe the...

Bennett, Don’t Join Netanyahu

The only thing that’s clear from the three exit polls published Tuesday night is that Israel is stuck. Neither of the blocs can declare victory, and...

Israel Election: One Danger, Four Answers

Just like the three previous elections, Tuesday’s election for the 24th Knesset will be a referendum on the continued tenure of Prime Minister...

A Fully Right-wing Nightmare

“We have a one-time opportunity to establish a fully right-wing government,” is the central message of Benjamin Netanyahu’s election...

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon, Stop the Bulldozers

In the two and a half years since Moshe Leon was elected mayor of Jerusalem, he has been a source of quite a few surprises in his attitude toward East...

The High Court Protects Us

The High Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that regulations barring Israelis from entering the country beyond a quota of 3,000 people a day would...

Israel's Public Security Minister's 'Killer Instinct'

The euphoria following the gradual return to normal after the coronavirus, thanks to the successful vaccination drive, must not allow us to forget...

Israeli Kids Aren't Ready for the Future

Surprised Netanyahu's Supporters Are After You Now?