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Opinion Israeli Arab life has gotten better — why aren’t we celebrating?
The mayor of Nazareth, the largest Arab town in Israel, announced on Feb. 11 that he was backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s March 23 election. Outside of Israel, this landmark development was only sparsely reported on in American media. In a Reuters’ article that highlighted Netanyahu’s anti-Arab history, Arab leaders disparaged the mayor,…
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Culture Netanyahu’s embrace of ‘South Park’ proves the Michael Che dustup was political
There’s a lot going on in the new “South Park” special, but only a few seconds that seem to matter to Benjamin Netanyahu. On Thursday, the prime minister tweeted a clip from the episode that showed a passenger plane decked out with Magen Davids appearing in a burst of spangly sky diamonds. “It’s Air Israel…
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News ‘Not every disagreement should lead to a crisis’: Israel’s new ambassador on repairing relations with Democrats
When Gilad Erdan was growing up in the port city of Ashkelon, his mother predicted that one day he would become Israel’s state comptroller because he was always giving orders on what needed to be fixed at school. He got an early start in politics and by 26 became an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Opinion The ICC probe of war crimes against Palestinians will deepen rifts between American Jews
Last Wednesday, the International Criminal Court announced it was opening an investigation into alleged crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories. It was a significant development in a process that has seen countries clash over whether those territories even fall within the ICC’s jurisdiction. Fatou Bensouda, the court’s outgoing chief prosecutor, succeeded in convincing the…
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Opinion To escape endless elections, Israel needs a new generation of ‘naïve’ leaders
What do the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the climate crisis have in common? The answer is troubling: neither of these existential issues is on the political agenda of the current election campaign in Israel. Israeli voters have left the climate crisis to the good care of foreign leaders. And they’ve let their own leaders sweep the…
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News What Israel has learned from its battle with COVID-19
This Q&A is adapted from one of four public conversations about the future of Israel being held every Wednesday at noon ET in a collaboration between JTA and the Israel Democracy Institute in the lead-up to Israel’s March 23 elections. The program is being funded by the Marcus Foundation. To register for the upcoming sessions,…
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Fast Forward On Fox News, Netanyahu calls Biden a friend, but highlights disagreement on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday morning — occupying the slot once reserved for former President Donald Trump — and showed some unease when talking about the current occupant of the White House, President Joe Biden. “What’s your relationship like with President Biden? He’s been in office for 44…
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Opinion To Israel, converts are still just a political football
This week, Israeli converts to Judaism found themselves once more caught in a political power struggle between Israel’s religious right and left. After 15 years of waiting for the Knesset to find a legislative solution to Israel’s conversion crisis, the Supreme Court dropped a legal bombshell by issuing a verdict requiring Israel’s Interior Ministry to…
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Fast Forward From Shabbat dinners to ‘Talmudic discourse’: Jewish women killed in NYC shooting leave legacies of faith and family
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Opinion In that horrific video of a man digging his own grave, Israelis are seeing something that Americans aren’t
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Opinion Netanyahu’s new Gaza plan is a disaster. But it contains a tiny kernel of wisdom
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Culture In a first-of-its-kind museum, mezuzahs keep memories of pre-war Poland alive
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Fast Forward Netanyahu confirms intent to occupy all of Gaza, against advice of his military
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