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Dahlia Scheindlin is a political analyst and pollster based in Tel Aviv. Follow her on Twitter @dahliasc or email dahlia60@gmail.com.
Dahlia Scheindlin is a political analyst and pollster based in Tel Aviv. Follow her on Twitter @dahliasc or email dahlia60@gmail.com.
TEL AVIV – As Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told the Israeli public Monday night that their government had finally reached its long-anticipated end, a touching moment broke the somber urgency. “I really love you,” Lapid told Bennett with genuine, almost blushing affection. Lapid, who will become interim prime minister…
Some of the most moving conversations I have had recently were with voters who left their political home on the right, including Orthodox Jews, and voted for Joe Biden. Why did their stories make such an impression on me? Their reasons for rejecting Trump weren’t unusual. They eschewed his character, his policies, his populism and…
No matter who wins the U.S. 2020 election, there is trouble in the tribe of humanity. The very fact that Donald Trump has a decent shot at a second term reinforces what his surprise 2016 win taught us: that nearly half the country supports him consistently in polls, enough to wish to prolong his reign…
In late March, the first two people in Gaza Strip were diagnosed with COVID-19. The ongoing humanitarian disaster of Gaza was poised to reach a crescendo. Surprisingly, positive things happened instead. The overcrowded strip of land holds nearly two million people hemmed in by a 13-year old closure imposed by Israel and frequent restrictions on…
Throughout President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements announcing a peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, symbolic words like “peace,” “hope” “dignity” “fair” and “historic” rang in my ears. The President said it was “time for this sad chapter of history to end,” and “we must break free of yesterday’s failed approaches.” And…
When Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced on Thursday that he would indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three separate corruption charges, Netanyahu knew just what to say. He called a press conference in advance, for precisely one hour after the first announcement began. Glaring at the cameras, he practically guffawed at points to swallow…
Beyond interminable coalition bargaining, one of the more interesting developments around Israel’s April and September elections was a renewed attention to the word “liberal.” During these two cycles, it suddenly became fashionable for parties and political figures to present themselves as liberal — and not just on the left. Hawkish, right wing spoiler Avigdor Lieberman…
Israelis were apparently scandalized this past week by a video showing an IDF soldier in Hebron shooting a wounded, incapacitated and unmoving Palestinian who had, a few minutes earlier, attacked another soldier with a knife, wounding him. The video that surfaced on Thursday was taken by a volunteer with the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem….
