It’s Official: The Netanyahu Era Is Over

Yuli Edelstein did it, big-time. He said out loud what other senior Likud politicians have been whispering to journalists “not for attribution”...

Israel Must Do Everything to Bring Soldiers Home

Two episodes that have haunted us for many years coincidentally came up again this week: the captures of Ron Arad and Gilad Shalit. Nothing is crueler...

The Culprit Is Always Underfunding

One Man Bears the Blame for Israel's Major Prison Break: Benjamin Netanyahu

The series of failures that enabled six security prisoners to escape is the product of years of neglect and mismanagement. Preferring to buy long-term...

Israel's ultra-Orthodox Win Even When They're in the Opposition

About every decade or so, a miracle happens: A government that doesn’t include the ultra-Orthodox, the Haredim, is formed. It happened in 2003 under...

Israel’s Bennett Bashers Just Can’t Be Pleased

It’s hard to please the sourpusses. Even though they did all they could to oust Benjamin Netanyahu, the moment it actually happened they started to...

Natural Gas Is Here to Stay

The enormous fire that ran rot last week in the Jerusalem Hills is part of a series of terrible fires, exceptional in their force, that have recently...

For Disabled Israeli Children, Nothing. For Army Pensions, $340 Million

For months, organizations representing the disabled have been protesting across the country. They’ve blocked roads and stopped trains, demanding...

Why Does Netanyahu Envy His Former Protégé Lieberman?

Benjamin Netanyahu can’t believe what’s happening to him: He sees his former aide shepherding through the cabinet a state budget filled with...

Risks Facing Israel Are More Like Lebanon's Than Those in U.S.

The air is stifling, the combination of high heat and humidity is intolerable, but what would happen if on top of all this, we didn’t have...

Shock and Awe: Israel's Treasury Is Under New Leadership

Histadrut labor federation chairman Arnon Bar-David noticed an immediate change. After the head of Israel’s main trade union federation returned...

The Price of Israel's Surrogacy Breakthrough

The initial reaction to the High Court of Justice ruling was great joy and euphoria. “My heart is bursting with excitement,” said Oshri Buzaglo,...

Haredi Lawmakers Impose Poverty on Their Community

The cruelty of lawmakers Arye Dery, Meir Porush and Moshe Gafni knows no bounds. They are clearheadedly sentencing their ultra-Orthodox constituencies...

Israeli Leftists: Stop Being Sour, the Government of Change Has Come

It’s difficult to please the left. Before the new government was formed, they said it had no chance because Naftali Bennett and Gideon Sa’ar would...

Netanyahu Is Leading an Incitement That Could End in Murder, Again

A direct line connects the awful incitement before the Rabin assassination and the even harsher incitement going on today. Then, just before the...

Finally, a Government That Will Work for Us

This is a festive day, a day when a government of change has finally been formed. This is a day when Benjamin Netanyahu is paying the price for his...

Biden Phoned, and It's a Good Thing Netanyahu Toed the Line

After completely supporting the harsh bombings in the Gaza Strip for a full week, and vetoing a number of resolutions against Israel in the UN...

The Price of Tomatoes and the Destruction of Zionism

This week I took part in a TV panel discussion, and one topic that came up was the high prices of fruit and vegetables. One panelist said he bought...

With Israel's Huge Deficit, Comes a Huge Opportunity for Avigdor Lieberman

This week, Bibi managed to score a spectacular own goal. His failed attempt to appoint Ofir Akunis, his Sancho Panza, as minister of justice, while...

Rabbinate, Let Our Croissants Alone

Once, years ago, I attended a large get-together in a restaurant. The host ordered a bottle of wine and a waiter came to the table with the bottle. He...

Israel's Finance Minister Should Try Unpaid Leave

The economy is reopening, kids are going back to school. Everything is moving, everything is changing. But Herod remains Herod. He’s not budging. He...

What Netanyahu Should Really Be on Trial For

One man twists an entire country around. One man is responsible for both of Monday’s dramas, in court and in the President’s Residence. One man is...

Dear Israel's National Insurance Institute Director General, Why Work at All?

Netanyahu Said He Wouldn't, and That's When I Knew He Would Go With Islamist Party Netanyahu Said He'll Never Do It, and That's When I Knew He Would Go With Islamist Party

How did I know that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would turn to MK Mansour Abbas (United Arab List) to ask for his support? By an interview...

A Government Without the Crook or the Haredim

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, it has to happen. It happens to every crook. He fools everyone for years and years, lies constantly, doesn’t keep promises,...

Netanyahu Is Willing to Die for Power. His Opponents Aren’t

What is the secret behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s power? After all, everyone is familiar with the criminal indictments he faces, the 6,000 COVID-19...

Those Brave Israeli Army Fighters Leading the Religious Zionism Party

The Tragic Blunder of the High Court Justices

Bibi vs. the Punching Bag

Netanyahu Admits: COVID Victims Didn’t Die, They Were Killed

Bring the COVID Criminal to Justice

Bibi, Who’s to Blame for the 4,000 Dead?

With Netanyahu, It's All About Canceling His Trial

Gantz, Do You Work for Netanyahu?

Netanyahu's Plan for Electoral Victory

Israel’s Worst Finance Minister Ever

Netanyahu’s Four-part Plan

Yom Kippur Is Netanyahu's Last Chance to Ask for Forgiveness

God, What Terrible Sin Did We Commit to Deserve Netanyahu?

A prime minister who capitulates to every pressure group and views the long-term as the 8 P.M. news broadcast is not fit to lead Israel

Netanyahu’s Deceitful Lockdown

Why the Hasidic Pilgrimage to Uman Must Be Stopped

The coronavirus czar is under pressure to let 30,000 Belz Hasidim fly from Israel to Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah. If he relents, it will be a deadly...

Netanyahu Knows in the End There Will Be No Election

Netanyahu Really Will Burn the Country Down