Netanyahu’s Israel Did Little to Hinder Iran’s Nuclear Progress

The New York Times article reporting the story behind the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh at the end of last year...

Bennett Must Change Israel's Attitude Toward Its Arab Citizens

The National Council of Arab mayors in Israel is crying out in desperation, and it must be heard. “Arab society is still under violent and barbaric...

Israel Must Stop Breaching the Status Quo on the Temple Mount

Quietly, under the radar, Israel is breaching the status quo on the Temple Mount. For the past two years, under police protection, groups of Jews who...

The Israeli Interior Minister Is Cynically Violating Palestinian Rights

Over two months ago, the Knesset voted against extending the emergency order that allowed the state to prevent Palestinians from the territories...

Israel's Government of Change Is Taking Commendable Diplomatic Steps

Despite Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked’s insistence on continuing with the stale rhetoric of the Netanyahu era, and despite her clumsy efforts to...

Save Eilat's Coral Reefs

Israel is blessed with the world’s northernmost coral reef and one of its most beautiful. But the report published Sunday by the Environmental...

It's Time for Israel to Beef Up Coronavirus Testing Centers

The coronavirus testing system wasn’t ready for the enormous demand during Rosh Hashanah, and many Israelis had to wait in line for hours for a...

Time to Beef Up Coronavirus Testing Centers

Israel Needs to Reconsider Policy on Palestinian Prisoners

After four of the six prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison, including Zakaria Zubeidi, were caught alive, and despite the fact that the search for...

No to the Collective Punishment of Palestinian Prisoners

The Prison Service has found an easy, ineffective, unjust way to obscure its colossal failure to prevent the escape from Gilboa Prison by six...

Israel Must Find Those Responsible for Prison Failure

The Khan al-Ahmar Show Must End

Judging by the response filed by the state to the High Court yesterday, this “government of change” doesn’t intend to change anything about...

It’s Also Jewish to ‘Choose Life’

Next week, in honor of the Jewish sabbatical year, most Jewish municipalities will stop planting trees, shrubs and flowers. The Jewish National Fund,...

The Government Must Draft an Education Policy Based on Solidarity, Not Xenophobia Israel's Government Must Draft an Education Policy Based on Solidarity, Not Xenophobia

In recent weeks, tensions have risen in the south Tel Aviv neighborhoods of Kfar Shalem and Yad Eliyahu, where two elementary schools have enrolled 16...

The Government Must Draft an Education Policy Based on Solidarity, Not Xenophobia Israel's Government Must Draft an Education Policy Based on Solidarity, Not Xenophobia

In recent weeks, tensions have risen in the south Tel Aviv neighborhoods of Kfar Shalem and Yad Eliyahu, where two elementary schools have enrolled 16...

The Cynical Exploitation of a Soldier's Death

The death of Border Police soldier Barel Hadaria Shmueli is being cynically and outrageously exploited. This is happening in a two-pronged approach,...

Bennett’s Shameful Behavior

This week’s overt meeting in Ramallah between Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was an important and much-needed...

COVID Has Made Big Brother That Much Bigger

Over the past year-and-half, due to the spread of the coronavirus, there have been several breaches of barriers meant to protect the privacy of...

The Violence Raging in Israel's Arab Community Is a National Crisis

The list of victims of the violence that is running rampant in Israel’s Arab community grows longer. The most recent of them was a man from Ramle,...

To Enjoy Peace and Security, Israel Must Consider the Palestinians

“We’ve become close friends,” U.S. President Joe Biden declared following his meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. This statement,...

Don't Want Your Kids Taught by an Arab? Yes, That's Racist

While Iyad Shalabi’s inspiring gold medal win Wednesday at the Paralympics in Tokyo was greeted with applause by politicians and in general, it...

Government of Vindictiveness

It’s strange that the members of the Bennett-Lapid government, who were elected to lead Israel on a promise of political and cultural change, needed...

Chaos Reigns as Israel Set for Start of School Year

One week from Wednesday, 2.4 million children and some 260,000 teachers are to begin the new school year – the third school year held in the shadow...

Fighting Crime in Israel's Arab Community Is Not the Shin Bet's Job

The problem of illegal weapons in Arab communities needs to be resolved. This is an issue that must get the highest priority on the nation’s...

Bennett, Gaza Must Be Reconstructed

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is once again offering the standard catchphrases as a solution to the new conflict that has erupted along Israel’s...

A Failed Test for Israel's Health System

About two months ago the licensing examination was held for graduates of foreign medical schools. The licensing exam is the most important filter for...

Confiscating Solar Panels From Palestinians in August Is Torrid Abuse

Civil administration personnel and Israel Defense Forces soldiers last week confiscated about a dozen electricity-producing solar panels from two...

Israel Must Investigate Its Army's Social Media Psyops

The Israeli army always had to maneuver among several fronts. It now emerges that the Israel Defense Forces under Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi has a...

It's Time Israel Takes Responsibility for Its Forest Fires

The firefighters and Jewish National Fund personnel who strove to extinguish the huge fire in the Jerusalem hills said the blaze acted unusually....

The Path to Eradicating COVID in Israel Runs Through the West Bank and Gaza

The Israeli approach to the coronavirus battle is clear: The vaccinated of your city come first. The campaign to deliver the third shot was...

Amid Opposition to Polish Law, Israel Must Recognize Theft of Palestinian Property

Israel’s harsh diplomatic protest against the approval of a Polish law preventing Jews from receiving restitution for property that was stolen from...

The Path to Eradicating COVID in Israel Runs Through the West Bank and Gaza

The Israeli approach to the coronavirus battle is clear: The vaccinated of your city come first. The campaign to deliver the third shot was launched...

Open Courtroom Doors on the Submarine Affair, Bring It to Light

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, described the so-called submarine and patrol boat purchasing...

The Israeli Education Minister’s Test

The High Court of Justice unanimously overturned Thursday the decision of former Education Minister Yoav Gallant to withhold the Israel Prize in...

As COVID Bites, Israel Abandons Its Retirement Homes Once Again

The government had enough time to prepare for another outbreak of COVID-19 at retirement homes but failed to do so. The headlines are once again...

To Deter Trigger-happy Soldiers, Israel Must Exact a Price for Unjustified Killings

That Israel Defense Forces soldiers tend to be trigger-happy is an established fact. Even Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi could no longer ignore the...

Bennett, the Climate Crisis Is Already Here. It's Time to Act

The report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released Monday, states that even under the rosiest scenario for the reduction of...

The Burning Issue of Climate Change

The floods and fires in Europe and the Mediterranean in recent weeks have been unprecedented in extent, causing heavy losses to life and property....

First the Army Killed His Son, Then Israel Took His Work Permit

There’s no need for a Military Police investigation to know that the soldiers who killed a child, Mohammed al-Alami, in his home village of Beit...

The Israeli Army's New Operation: Pensions

The plan presented by the Defense Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces to the government last Thursday seems as if it were conceived in a parallel...

Israel Should Enforce COVID Rules and Vaccinate, but Panic Won't Help

Over the last year and a half, Israelis have demonstrated great maturity and responsibility in dealing with the coronavirus. Fully 90 percent of...

One Week, Four Palestinian Deaths, All in Unjustified Circumstances

When he started his job as Israel Defense Forces chief of staff two and a half years ago, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said, “Our goal is fielding a lethal...

Israel Treats Its Olympic Victor as a Second-class Medalist

When Artem Dolgopyat stepped up to the podium Sunday in Tokyo and received his gold medal, the Israeli anthem was played and the Israeli flag was...

Israel Should Say Yes to COVID-19 Vaccinations in Schools

Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton’s opposition to vaccinating children against the coronavirus in schools impedes efforts to end the pandemic....

How to Develop More Israeli Olympic Medalists

Artem Dolgopyat’s historic achievement in the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday was exciting and rare. Dolgopyat won Israel’s second Olympic gold medal,...

Illegal Residents Live in the Palestinian Territories, Too

Once every few months, the Israeli defense establishment publicly voices its fears about the deteriorating status of the Palestinian Authority and its...

Israel's New Government Should Reform the Military

Tuesday’s concession by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman to the excessive monetary demands of the defense...

Israel Owes France an Explanation About NSO Surveillance Technology

Those around Benny Gantz stressed on Tuesday that the defense minister’s trip to France on Wednesday, and the planned meeting with French Defense...

Israel's Opportunity to Turn Over a New Leaf With Jordan

Remarks made by King Abdullah II of Jordan in an interview with CNN this week and his conciliatory, optimistic tone prove that in diplomacy, as in...