Israel’s Death Penalty Paradox: The Law That Exists but Never Lives
In 1962, Israel executed Adolf Eichmann. It never happened again. Sixty years later, after the atrocities of October 7, the question arises: should the Jewish state execute again? Many Israelis believe capital punishment must be “reinstated” for terrorists. That’s false. It already exists. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is making a show of fixing this, […]
Israeli Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
Yesterday, the Knesset took a historic step: a declaration to work toward applying sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and The Jordan Valley passed by 71 votes in favour and 13 votes opposed. This development did not come out of nowhere. It followed years of ideological groundwork and it was echoed powerfully at the July 2024 […]
Summary of bills before the Knesset in the winter session: III. Bills passed into law
Over the winter session, 28 bills were voted into Law. Many of us heard about the Settlement Law, the Disengagement Law, The Prime Minister Incapacity Bill, The Der’i Law, the law revoking terrorist citizenship or residency, the Hametz Law, and the law giving Ben Gvir policy decisionmaking power over the police. What else made it […]
Remember this today — and not only on Yom Hazikaron!
Just now, on Galgalatz, there was an episode in the new series “Connecting” in which they reminded listeners that MKs from all parties sit together in the cafeteria, work together in committees and, as I showed in my latest article, sometimes prepare together the same law proposals. Then Efi Triger interviewed Moshe Solomon from Religious […]
Update on Laws before the Knesset – 2 March 2023
To see the variety of bills before our elected representatives and get an idea of what they concern themselves with aside from the raging battle over judicial reform. To date, 2712 bills have been tabled in the current Knesset term and are at various stages of the process. Just to remind you, the current Knesset […]
Israeli Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
All over the Web there is hand-wringing over the fate of the refugees fleeing war torn and terror infested Africa and Asia. Especially heart wrenching is the newest image of the toddler who washed up dead on the beach in Turkey. What has that got to do with Israel? There are those around the world […]
Galon Uses Democracy to Proclaim That Israel Is Not Democratic
While MK Zehava Galon claims that the Israeli government wants to suppress free speech and muzzle the Left, the fact that she can bad-mouth the country’s leaders and lie to try to prove a point (or show extreme ignorance, if I want to be kinder toward her) implies that free speech is alive and well. […]
How the Knesset Passes Laws: A Guide for the Perplexed Like Me
I always had a very rudimentary understanding of how bills get passed into law in this country but aspects of the process had me confused, and for some reason, I was unable to find anyone who could sort things out for me . . . until I made contact with Jeremy Saltan. Jeremy was kind […]
Hanin Zoabi – Not Just a Hot-Headed Rabble Rouser
Does Hanin Zoabi do anything other than ride the waves on boats that seek to illegally enter Israeli waters, march with those who would accuse our army of genocide, or rant against Israeli policies? We have seen her conduct herself in a way that suggests she has no interest in our state, to put it […]