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May 18, 2012
Can the new Israeli coalition bring about peace??
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Poll Trend: Elections far off, Netanyahu still strong
May 11, 2012
Can mighty Israel (and mighty Netanyahu) make peace?
Will Israelis support the new mega-coalition?
In a surprise move, Likud and Kadima form Israel’s broadest government coalition
Israelis went to sleep Monday night expecting early elections in September for the 19th Knesset. They woke up to the news that elections would take place as planned in October 2013.
May 8, 2012
In surprise move, Netanyahu, Mofaz agree to form unity government, cancel early elections
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition chairman MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima) reached a surprise agreement early Tuesday morning to form a national unity government.
So it’s “Shaul or Bibi” - but can Mofaz find the votes?
If you really must know what’s going to happen in Kadima
March 18, 2012
Netanyahu’s approval rating: 53 percent
Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval rating: 45 percent
March 2, 2012
Yes or No? What Do Israelis Believe Will Happen With Iran?
Democracy for Some - Not for All
A king, a martyr, and a bunch of rabbis
Taking the pro-Israel pulse of GOP candidates
The race for the “Who Loves Israel Most” title has been one of the most interesting developments in the Republican presidential election. It’s skewed the contest in a way that turns every vote for a candidate into a vote for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party.
Israel’s approval of anti-boycott bill drawing protests, legal challenges
The Israeli parliament's adoption of a controversial anti-boycott bill has been greeted with a firestorm of protest from liberal Israeli NGOs and civil rights groups.
Why are Jewish leaders not standing up for the “Charedi Rebel”?
Where is Abraham Foxman when we really need him? Where is Malcolm Hoenlein, David Harris, the American Jewish media, the leaders of Jewish Federations and other prominent Jewish machers who have complained for years about the hijacking of Judaism and Israeli politics by the intolerant and power-hungry Haredim?
Israel needs regime change to insure stability
Last month, Avigdor Liberman, Israel's minister of strategic affairs, resigned from office.
Though this is just one news fact, it resonates with much larger implications in Israel's political, economic and security arenas, such as possibly affecting the peace process or the investor's desire to invest in Israel.
Time to crapple with ‘real’ Israel
The quest for a fair and sustainable settlement to conflict in the Mideast is indeed central, but the peace process is not the only challenge of Israel's continuing struggle for survival as the state its founders intended it to be. Important, too, are issues that define Israel as a society, as a homeland for Jews, as a democracy. In the long run these and related topics will contribute as much as military and diplomatic matters to answering the question of whether Israel will survive another 60 years.
Likud winner Bibi takes aim at extremist party rival
After his overwhelming victory in the Likud's leadership primary last week, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu might have felt well on the way to succeeding Ehud Olmert as prime minister. For months he had been leading in polls for the premiership, and was now seemingly in control of his party.
Is Barak moving Labor to the right?
Ehud Barak, the new leader of Israel's Labor Party, is proving to be something of an enigma.
‘Jews Only’ JNF land plan counters Israel’s values
It is unthinkable that Israel will be a country where purchasing land will require a paper from the chief rabbinate certifying one's Jewish status. It is unthinkable that Christian and Muslim Israelis, non-Jewish foreign investors and the 700,000 Russian immigrants whose religious status is unclear will be prohibited from leasing public lands. It is unthinkable that a people who has suffered from similar discriminatory laws throughout its history, including in Iran and Saudi Arabia today, will now impose them on others.
Katsav cops plea in sex charges
His reputation in shambles from a sex scandal that broke a year ago and swelled in subsequent months, Israel's outgoing president, Moshe Katsav, put an end to the sordid chapter by agreeing to a plea bargain after months of insisting he was innocent.
The leaders of Israel and of the Jewish people are failing us
Almost 25 years ago, I read a one-line description of Jewish leadership that has haunted me ever since. The author, whose name I have repressed, wrote: "Only a confirmed anti-Semite could believe that the Jewish people have the leadership they deserve." I protested his statement then, but I am not sure I can disagree now.
Rocket attacks pose huge policy dilemma for Israel
More than a week of unabated Qassam rocket attacks on Sderot has created a huge policy dilemma for the Israeli government: What should it do to stop radical Gaza-based terrorists from firing missiles on Israeli civilians and causing pandemonium in the border town of 22,000.
Israel experiencing revival of democratic life thanks to Winograd
Apart from this impressive show of citizen involvement, the Winograd Report brought back to the Israeli political sphere the essence of democracy, originating in ancient Greece: free citizens engaging in a serious discourse on their most crucial public affairs.
Incumbency aids Olmert in surviving party ‘coup’
By all accounts, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should have been history. The Winograd Commission's interim report issued April 30 on last summer's second Lebanon War could not have been more scathing. The paragraph on the prime minister's responsibility for the failures and shortcomings in top-level decision-making speaks for itself.
What now after Winograd?
With "failure" officially stamped on Ehud Olmert's management of last summer's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, the question is: What happens now?
Israel needs to rethink national security
Celebrations of Israel's 59th year of independence may be overshadowed by the Winograd Commissions' interim report on the political and military leadership's conduct during the Second Lebanon War last summer.
Israeli Electoral Reform Dream: What a Headache
Could Pride rally tension put gay issues on Israel’s agenda?
Gay issues have never been at the forefront of Israeli domestic politics -- unlike in the United States -- but some wonder if that will change after ultra-Orthodox protesters used violence to prevent a gay pride parade.
Israeli Producer’s Election-Day Risk
It's little more than a week to the airdate, March 28, and Ofra Bikel is still putting the final touches on her hourlong documentary, "Israel: The Unexpected Candidate."
That's not like Bikel, a meticulous professional, described by critic Howard Rosenberg in the Los Angeles Times as "one of television's premier documentary filmmakers ... whose camera wields the power to mobilize public opinion through exposure."
"Usually, I take seven to eight months to make a documentary, but in this case I had only six weeks," Bikel said in an hourlong phone call from Tel Aviv, her speech a medley of Israeli, French and American accents.
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