Current Events Keeping Up With Our MKs Can Ben Gvir improve on the electronic monitoring bill he voted down? March 29, 2023 Sherry Oz No Comments Fury raged in the plenum on 22 March as women called out “shame” and wove their hands in the air holding aloft electronic shackles during Ben Gvir’s speech in the…
Current Events Keeping Up With Our MKs Can we use the Lapid speech at Kohelet in 2016 as proof of his hypocrisy? March 12, 2023 Sherry Oz No Comments What is one to do when the side of an argument you support presents material that has been taken out of context and, therefore, gives a false impression? I think…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking The Lapid Outline reminds me of two things, neither of them good. February 18, 2023 Sherry Oz No Comments Lapid has sort-of answered the call to offer his counterproposals to the coalition’s bills for judicial reform. He calls it: The Lapid Outline, and he posted it on his Facebook…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Lapid is right: The madness must stop February 18, 2023 Sherry Oz No Comments After the last Israeli coalition government collapsed, Yair Lapid became caretaker prime minister. Given that a successful incumbent prime minister often has a strong chance of reelection, Lapid likely thought…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking What does the Nation State Law Actually Say? August 1, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments All hell broke loose on 19 July 2018 when the Knesset passed the bill at its third reading and we saw the birth of the Nation State Law. There were…