Gideon Sa’ar’s defection and the search for a new center-right consensus.
The Eighth Day.
It’s time to gird for war.
By ending the proliferation of government ministries.
Have the country’s divisions been healed, or papered over?
Tunnels, domestic politics, and the popular mood.
Losing the ability to compromise.
Changing rhetoric about checks, balances, and judicial reform.
Some 40,000 non-Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan now live in Israel. How did they get there, why did they come, and what obligation, if any, does Israel have to them?
The dangers of refusal to serve.
The violence underscores the case for judicial reform.
Combining a sense of Jewish brotherhood with a newfound civic responsibility.
Trivializing Judaism’s greatest sorrows.