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Haviv Rettig Gur


Haviv Rettig Gur is the senior analyst for the Times of Israel.

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  1. Response ·

    Watch and Read Scott Abramson and Haviv Rettig Gur Discuss Israeli Commissions of Inquiry and October 7

    By Scott Abramson, Haviv Rettig Gur, Jonathan Silver

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Watch and Read Scott Abramson and Haviv Rettig Gur Discuss Israeli Commissions of Inquiry and October 7
  2. Observation ·

    The Best Books of 2020, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part II)

    By Haviv Rettig Gur, Ed Husain, Martin Kramer, Robert W. Nicholson, Dr. Ruth Wisse, David Wolpe

    Five more of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring what Jews are for, magicians, assassins, call signs, chaos, separated siblings, and more.

    The Best Books of 2020, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part II)
  3. Response ·

    If Israel’s Politicians Shape up, the Bureaucracy Will Fall in Line

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    If Israel’s Politicians Shape up, the Bureaucracy Will Fall in Line
  4. Monthly Essay ·

    Israel’s Deep State Is Undemocratic, Unaccountable, and Completely Indispensable

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    How does Israel keep functioning despite constant political turmoil? Meet the opaque group of unelected bureaucrats that the country’s politicians rely on to save it from themselves.

    Israel’s Deep State Is Undemocratic, Unaccountable, and Completely Indispensable
  5. Observation ·

    The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)

    By Elliott Abrams, Diana Muir Appelbaum, Matti Friedman, Haviv Rettig Gur, Daniel Johnson, Moshe Koppel, Daniel Polisar

    Seven of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring sieges, spies, cultural revolutions, family papers, useful enemies, new fields of inquiry, and more.

    The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)
  6. Response ·

    Is Israel a House Divided?

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Is Israel a House Divided?
  7. Monthly Essay ·

    How and Why Israelis Vote

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    A primer on the state of play of Israeli politics, how Israel’s electoral system shapes (and warps) priorities, and why Netanyahu has reason to be worried about his new rival.

    How and Why Israelis Vote
  8. Observation ·

    The Best Books of 2018, Chosen by Mosaic Authors

    By Elliott Abrams, Haviv Rettig Gur, Moshe Koppel, Daniel Polisar, Sarah Rindner, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Dr. Ruth Wisse, David Wolpe

    Letters, antidotes, eternal lives, outcasts, secret worlds, pogroms, and more.

    The Best Books of 2018, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
  9. Response ·

    What the Druze Know about Israel that Israeli Jews Have Forgotten

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    What the Druze Know about Israel that Israeli Jews Have Forgotten
  10. Response ·

    Israel Is a Case Study in the Need for Humility in the Social Sciences

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Israel Is a Case Study in the Need for Humility in the Social Sciences
  11. Response ·

    The Problem Starts in the Knesset

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Problem Starts in the Knesset
  12. Response ·

    How Palestinians’ Vision of Israel Serves Palestinian Needs

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    How Palestinians’ Vision of Israel Serves Palestinian Needs
  13. Response ·

    Another Kind of Unity

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Another Kind of Unity
  14. Response ·

    Can the Unsustainable Be Sustained?

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Can the Unsustainable Be Sustained?
  15. Response ·

    O Pioneers!

    By Haviv Rettig Gur

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    O Pioneers!