If the parties internalize and converge, on this Tisha B’Av, we will be able to feel that we have learned something from the past and will not repeat the mistakes of our ancestors

Stripping the Supreme Court of its ability to apply the reasonableness standard in its judicial review of decisions made by Israel’s elected officials will allow politicians to wield their power in ways that will be hard to limit.

Along with government pressure to stifle criticism and intimidate civil servants, the dilemma facing the drafters of the National Intelligence Estimate intensifies.

China has taken major strides into the Mideast arena, and the Prime Minister needs to go and make Israel’s case

In Europe, Jews often serve as the canary in the coal mine, the first to recognize threats that affect all German citizens.

The protest movement seems to have succeeded in preventing the situation from worsening. But there is a significant difference between “avoiding evil” and “doing good.”

The boycott of Angel Bakery was a spontaneous grassroots response to the trampling of The ultra-Orthodox community’s most cherished symbols.

A possible result is that the criticism will become even more incendiary, rather than softened or silenced entirely.

The sheer audacity of the judicial reform, and the aggressive way it was marketed, punched a hole in the fabric of Israeli national life, and through it, poured the boiling lava of identity discord.