Opinion Articles
Thin constitution needed to stabilize the government amid political crisis
Israel’s political future depends on adopting a thin constitution that prioritizes stability, fairness, and compromise, ensuring democratic governance amid internal divisions.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Broad consensus, powerful global actor: What Israel, Jews fail to understand about the EU
The problem is the refusal to recognize that the European Union is a powerful global actor with a coherent and long-term worldview, not a collection of interchangeable politicians.
Israel-Diaspora Relations
Israel-Diaspora Relations
Can Israel bring in 1 million new immigrants from the West?
Will Israel, this time, succeed in becoming a country that attracts immigration from affluent nations?
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
On Hate, Condescension and Political Extremism
To understand the full nature of the political and social rift within Israeli society, it is necessary to explore the realm of emotions.
Religion and State
Religion and State
The Haredi draft bill will be the end of Zionist Israel
If it passes, it will fortify the camp that rejects core civic values, magnify the burden on the military and the economy, and put the country's very survival in jeopardy.
Democracy
Democracy
Afraid of accountability, Israel’s government goes after its own generals
What Katz did to Zamir this week is not about professionalism, governance, or oversight. It is about keeping the spotlight on the IDF and away from the government.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Understanding anti-Jewish immigrant roots behind Mamdani’s progressive antisemitism
Just a few years ago, progressive antisemites were as rare as racist civil rights activists or pacifist boxers.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
Moving Rightward, Again?
When an Israeli says “I shifted to the right,” he or she is sending us a message: I became more suspicious of peace processes, more skeptical of concessions, more demanding about security guarantees.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
Will young Israelis’ rightward, traditional shift impact the country’s future?
When these long-term demographic trajectories combine with new data showing increased traditionalism among young Israelis, the direction is quite clear.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism
The anti-Zionist racist and the man who fought the UN’s ‘Zionism is racism’
A half century ago, a courageous New York hero, a proud Democrat working for a Republican president, stood before the world and denounced the UN’s poisonous hatred that Zionism is racism, so how can anyone of good conscience support a mayoral candidate who aligns with that?