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Nehemia Shtrasler

Nehemia Shtrasler

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Netanyahu, Israel's Leading Pathological Liar

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...

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Israel's Absent Finance Minister Serves the Settlements

Tonight, between Tuesday and Wednesday, the Knesset will in all likelihood pass the 2023-2024 budget. It’s a terrible budget without growth engines...

25.05.2023 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Civilian Service in Israel Is a Sham

There are no two words Israeli politicians love more than “civilian service.” In their fantasy, they see droves of idealistic ultra-Orthodox...

14.05.2023 20

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Smotrich Is Israel’s Worst Finance Minister Since King Herod

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...

04.05.2023 30

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With Biden’s Gifts, We Must Win Our Second War of Independence

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....

26.04.2023 10

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Secular Israelis Must Say No to IDF's Blood Money

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...

24.04.2023 40

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A Question for Opponents of High School Trips to Poland's Death Camps

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...

20.04.2023 6

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu's Cowardice Is a Danger to Israel

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...

16.04.2023 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

For Israel's Far-right Finance Minister, Annexation Trumps the Economy

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,...

31.03.2023 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu's Losing It. He Can't Go on Any Longer

Anyone who watched Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the start of this week’s cabinet meeting noticed his hands, which trembled...

28.03.2023 60

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Multi-millionaire Minister vs. the Consumers

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...

22.03.2023 9

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israeli Big Labor Brushes Off Bibi’s Coup and Takes a Pay Raise

The news keeps coming fast and furious, giving nobody a moment’s rest. President Isaac Herzog’s “People’s Plan” compromise was...

20.03.2023 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Responsible Economists Know That Israel's Judicial Coup Is Economic Suicide

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...

15.03.2023 20

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Netanyahu Will Soon Have a Very Unpleasant Conversation With Biden

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...

09.03.2023 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Netanyahu Will Soon Have a Very Unpleasant Conversation With Biden

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...

09.03.2023 60

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israeli Settlers – ‘Judeonazis’ Rampaging in Hawara, as in Duma

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...

07.03.2023 30

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Should Odeh and Tibi Repent?

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...

27.02.2023 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

As the Settlers and ultra-Orthodox Get Their Way, Netanyahu Does Their Bidding

Despite the president’s emotional plea to halt the legislation, it still went ahead Monday, with the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee...

16.02.2023 5

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's AG Is in Danger - Not Netanyahu

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...

08.02.2023 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Biden, Show Bibi How to Fulfill a Promise

It was an unadulterated pleasure, a true delight, to watch Benjamin Netanyahu standing there like a scolded child, reluctantly having to listen to the...

05.02.2023 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

The Ben-Gvir Method: Hit Them Harder

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,...

01.02.2023 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

The Tragicomic Gendarmes of Israel

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...

25.01.2023 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Caving Again, Smotrich Reveals His New Façade

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...

18.01.2023 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Sancho Panza as Finance Minister

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...

15.01.2023 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Has Smotrich Learned His Fiscal Lesson?

It was an assault that Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich did not expect. Benzion Mutzafi, a well-known arbiter of Jewish law associated with the...

12.01.2023 40

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel’s First anti-Zionist Prime Minister

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...

08.01.2023 50

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Smotrich Failed His First Test as Finance Minister

As in relations between people, so in politics “There’s no second chance for making a first impression,” and Bezalel Smotrich has failed this...

04.01.2023 50

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel’s Unwarranted Inflation Panic, Fueled by Media Hysteria

Newspaper headlines Thursday shrieked in red and black: Electricity rates are spiking, as are food prices, with more hikes as well as austerity...

27.12.2022 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

A Plea Bargain, Even Without Moral Turpitude

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...

15.12.2022 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Awarding Israel's Finance Ministry to Religious Coercion

What kind of finance minister will Bezalel Smotrich be? According to an interview published Thursday in the ultra-Orthodox weekly Mishpacha, he'll be...

09.12.2022 10

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Two Years? How About Weekly?

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...

06.12.2022 20

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Tel Aviv Metro: The Height of Folly

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...

01.12.2022 30

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Prepare for the State of Judea

The long, convoluted negotiations to form the government prove that Parkinson’s Law – “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its...

27.11.2022 50

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Nehemia Shtrasler

Israel's Far Right Lives in a Fantasy of Victimhood

MK Orit Strock (Religious Zionism) isn’t happy with the media. She complains that it has devoted too much attention to the marginal disturbances...

24.11.2022 70

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