Sanctions on Iran Are Working, but Hizballah Is Nowhere Close to Bankruptcy
Its operations are still running strong.
June 4, 2019
Economic Incentives Are the Best Way to Bring Ultra-Orthodox Jews into the IDF
Solving the problems that are bringing about Israel’s second election this year.
In 2018, a bill was put before the Knesset to expand the number of Ḥaredim conscripted into the Israeli military, while still preserving some of the exemptions for yeshiva students. Because Avigdor Liberman—the head of the Jewish Home party—refuses to join a governing coalition absent a promise the bill will remain unchanged, while the ḥaredi parties will only join the coalition if it is modified, Benjamin Netanyahu has been unable to form a governing coalition. Thus, new elections will be held in September. The former parliamentarian Yohanan Plesner, who served on the Knesset committee that produced an earlier version of the bill, comments:
June 4, 2019
Economic Incentives Are the Best Way to Bring Ultra-Orthodox Jews into the IDF
Solving the problems that are bringing about Israel’s second election this year.
High School: The New Frontier of Anti-Israel Indoctrination
An “anti-Zionist curriculum.”
A Submerged Ancient Greek Fortress on Israel’s Coast
Tel Dor.
Reviving an Ancient Tunisian Jewish Pilgrimage
Jews, Muslims, and Ghriba.