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Benjamin Netanyahu is a certified liar. Not for nothing did Bezalel Smotrich, who is now his finance minister, call the prime minister “a lying son...
Tonight, between Tuesday and Wednesday, the Knesset will in all likelihood pass the 2023-2024 budget. It’s a terrible budget without growth engines...
There are no two words Israeli politicians love more than “civilian service.” In their fantasy, they see droves of idealistic ultra-Orthodox...
It’s difficult to fight swindlers. They shower you with words and presentations until you’re drowning in them. That’s how it was this week with...
This has never happened to us before. Memorial Day has become a day of division and dispute, and Independence Day has become a day of sorrow and fear....
It’s not just the draft-dodging that’s driving secular people crazy, but also the Haredi contempt for all they hold sacred. This past week, most...
It’s impossible to forget that smell – the sharp smell of 80,000 pairs of shoes that the Nazis didn’t manage to send to Germany. After all, they...
Every time Benjamin Netanyahu announces a press conference, a feeling of hope hangs in the air that this time, despite the prime minister's usual...
Bezalel Smotrich is such a kind, sensitive man. This week, he removed the tax on sugary beverages in order to help his constituency ahead of Passover,...
Anyone who watched Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the start of this week’s cabinet meeting noticed his hands, which trembled...
Over the last two weeks, very quietly and under the cover of the regime overhaul, Nir Barkat is trying to perpetrate economic malfeasance. The economy...
The news keeps coming fast and furious, giving nobody a moment’s rest. President Isaac Herzog’s “People’s Plan” compromise was...
Shmuel Slavin is a good man, someone who’s easy to make friends with. He’s an old-style Likudnik who once, for a short time, served as the...
The United States has never before responded in such a way to an Israeli politician. The U.S. ambassador in Israel, Tom Nides, spoke out against...
The United States has never before responded in such a way to an Israeli politician. The U.S. ambassador in Israel, Tom Nides, spoke out against...
They were out for blood; they wanted to kill, to burn them alive. There’s no other explanation for the Kristallnacht pogrom committed by 400...
On Friday, a brief and unusual advertisement ran in Haaretz’s Hebrew edition – a blunt statement by 200 Arab public figures. "We’ll be the first...
Despite the president’s emotional plea to halt the legislation, it still went ahead Monday, with the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee...
As always, Benjamin Netanyahu sees no one but himself. At the government meeting on Sunday he said, shocked, that “there is a clear threat to murder...
It was an unadulterated pleasure, a true delight, to watch Benjamin Netanyahu standing there like a scolded child, reluctantly having to listen to the...
Omer Bar-Lev missed the opportunity. He should have come to the scene of the terror attack in Jerusalem’s Neveh Yaakov neighborhood on Friday night,...
It happened some years ago. A friend of mine was driving down a narrow street in Tel Aviv and accidently scraped a parked car. The owner, who was...
Last year ended with inflation of 5.3 percent, and labor leaders signaled to the finance minister that their patience has run out. They are demanding...
Watching the finance minister at his news conference this week was a rather sorry sight. Bezalel Smotrich looked like a junior aide to the prime...
It was an assault that Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich did not expect. Benzion Mutzafi, a well-known arbiter of Jewish law associated with the...
It feels like a year, but in fact it has only been a week since the government was established, a week that proved we are dealing with the first...
As in relations between people, so in politics “There’s no second chance for making a first impression,” and Bezalel Smotrich has failed this...
Newspaper headlines Thursday shrieked in red and black: Electricity rates are spiking, as are food prices, with more hikes as well as austerity...
As most Israelis were fast asleep at home last Friday night, a bunch of criminals sliced up and stole 300 meters of railroad communications cables in...
What kind of finance minister will Bezalel Smotrich be? According to an interview published Thursday in the ultra-Orthodox weekly Mishpacha, he'll be...
It is going to be a particularly bad government. Too big, too unwieldy, hobbled by the division of ministries and the rotation of ministers. It will...
It’s happening again: The launch of the Tel Aviv Metro’s Red Line has been postponed for the seventh time (!), to April 2023. So says a harsh...
The long, convoluted negotiations to form the government prove that Parkinson’s Law – “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its...
MK Orit Strock (Religious Zionism) isn’t happy with the media. She complains that it has devoted too much attention to the marginal disturbances...