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Opinion: Engage Moderate Religious Zionists on Israeli Judicial Reform
Beneath the sound and fury of the conflict between contending sides for or against the “reform” of the justice system, Israeli politics and society may be undergoing a tectonic shift.
Democracy
Democracy
Do not alienate those who disagree with you politically
Compromise is necessary to preserve solidarity between us.
Democracy
Democracy
Dialogue should prevent Israel’s slide into civil war
If legal experts with differing opinions could just hash everything out, we might see real, consensus-based reform
Democracy
Democracy
Mothers’ broken hearts
“My heart is broken.” The scribbled letters, red marker on white burlap, cried out to me amid the more polished signs decrying the “end of democracy” and proclaiming “the duty to resist” in gleaming black and white.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Judicial revolution endangers settlement enterprise
The voices in the world calling on Israel to halt the proposed judicial reform are not asking Israel to refrain from rectifying or adjusting the current balance of power
Democracy
Democracy
Neither side can win on judicial reform
Although the legislative process is well on its way, it is still not too late to seek dialogue and reach a compromise to prevent a schism in Israeli society and preserve our solidarity
Religion and State
Religion and State
The unhealthy law against chametz in hospitals
There’s one thing such a law most likely won’t do, and that’s keeping chametz from being brought into hospitals
