On May 4, the day before Israel’s 74th Independence Day (Yom Haatzma’ut), the Supreme Court handed down a decision in a case that has long been awaited: the legality or illegality of the closure of land in the South Hebron Hills referred to as Firing Area 918, and the expulsion of the population that has…
I hope the attendees at the 2022 Alternative Palestinian-Israeli Conjoint Memorial Ceremony finally noticed what I noticed. In advance of the event, JNS published two excellent articles that brought out important issues with respect to the place of Memorial Day in Israeli society. In the first case, Ruthie Blum talked about this year’s annual gift…
Education Minister Yifat Shasha Biton proudly announced that she has embarked upon a process of reform for the educational system. She calls it a revolution. In her Facebook post she exclaims: Education reform — we have begun! Today we are at the start of a new era with respect to Israel’s education system. Specifically, Minister…
There are promises and there are other promises. You point out, with rage, all the promises Bennett made that he is not keeping. These include electoral promises not to sit with Meretz or an Arab party in the government and not to cooperate with Lapid, and items on the Yamina Party platform, such as to…
Or: Keeping colleagues from shooting themselves in the foot MK Mansour Abbas, head of Ra’am, the first Arab party to ever enter an Israeli coalition government as an equal partner, set out to accomplish something that never before seemed possible. He stated that his goal was to improve the conditions under which the Israeli Arab…
What is behind the growing pressure on Yamina and the party’s remaining loyal members to get behind calls to bring down the coalition? Who is afraid of Ra’am? Israel is at a crucial juncture right now. When the current coalition was sworn in so many Israelis across the political spectrum had hopes for change. For…
Ahmad Tibi, a member of the Israeli Knesset for decades, loves to find tidbits he can use to beat down the country that pays his salary and supposedly to which he owes allegiance as an MK. Yet recently he eulogized a terrorist from the Knesset podium and he praises martyrs on both sides of the…
Bar-Ilan Univerisity tweeted yesterday that, contrary to notification received by students at the end of last month, Israeli flags CAN be put up anywhere on campus, including at the student dormitories. Why was this even an issue? Journalist Amir Ettinger wrote that students had received an email from the dormatory management that prohibited them from…
I do not understand what all the jubilation is about. Last night there was a rightwing demonstration in which there was joyful anticipation of the fall of the current coalition government. In fact, that was the openly stated purpose of the demonstration. And the fact that Netanyahu gave a speech makes me wonder how much…
Using Google to search for news reports of the latest incidents of alleged settler violence, I found a short list of recent articles, including one on i24 News. To my surprise, I discovered that sources supposedly supporting the claims of one of their articles were, in fact, about entirely different issues. There is no author…
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