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![]() Haviv Rettig GurThe Times of Israel |
At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, an old Haredi myth has it, lie a million sets of tefillin, the phylacteries worn on arm and head by Jews at...
Jerusalem Day is a fraught day, a day that once had a specific and nearly universal meaning for Jewish Israelis but whose most visible commemorations...
Until the start of hostilities with the Islamic Jihad terror group this week, Netanyahu’s government seemed to be teetering on the brink of...
Thursday’s protest in support of the government’s judicial overhaul was big enough. Whether it was around 100,000, as opponents claimed, or...
On June 7, 1982, then-prime minister Menachem Begin and defense minister Ariel Sharon arrived at the Crusader-era Beaufort Fortress in south Lebanon...
Western Holocaust commemorations have a peculiar uniformity to them. They speak of Nazism as a warning against intolerance and chauvinism. They recall...
The tide is finally turning against Israel, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah boasted on Friday. “The resistance… is confident while the Israeli...
Things were just starting to stabilize for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chaos-ridden government. Failure, it is said, can sometimes be a...
It’s one of the recurring ironies of Israeli politics: Nothing stabilizes a teetering government or parliamentary coalition more effectively than...
The Israeli right is gripped in a deep malaise. It has its argument about the over-powerful High Court. It believes that argument. It’s been making...
In the election of 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party ran a campaign warning that then-opposition leader Isaac Herzog would allow the Islamic...
“Perhaps the most common of all hard-bargaining tactics,” writes Harvard Law Prof. Robert Mnookin, is what he calls “extreme claims followed by...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to fly to Italy on Thursday. It won’t be the flight he dreamed of. According to numerous Israeli media...
At 4:08 p.m. on Sunday, journalist Yossi Yehoshua tweeted a poster produced by a group of extremist settlers who called for a mass march on the...
The fight over the government’s judicial overhaul can be divided into two periods: Before President Isaac Herzog’s February 12 speech, and after...
The architects of the government’s judicial overhaul are afraid, and they’re not ashamed to admit it. They don’t fear the protests, they don’t...
“Mistakes happen. We’re all people,” National Unity party chief Benny Gantz tweeted on January 23. It was an apology of sorts. Gantz’s party...
In 2017, an Israeli right-wing activist published a book that became an overnight mainstay of the conservative Israeli bookshelf. It was a fierce and...
Over the past few weeks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made himself generously available to a great many foreign media outlets and sympathetic...
Israeli politics were thrown into turmoil on Wednesday when Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled that Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, the leader of...
Last week, Justice Minister Yariv Levin presented his ambitious plan for reforming the Israeli judiciary, and its critics have not minced words,...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump on Wednesday called for far-right Republicans to end their blocking of the party’s candidate to become US House speaker,...
All of a sudden, everyone is talking about Haredim. The formation of the new government and the dramatic concessions offered by Prime Minister...