After October 7, Israel Is Broadly Unified on Matters of War and Peace
Despite contentious debate, this election is not a referendum on national security.
October 28, 2026
Israeli Arabs Have a Vote, Too
The two Arab parties might have significant leverage in coalition negotiations.
In 2021, Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am became the first Arab party to sit in an Israeli governing coalition. Now, after three years of war, most opposition leaders have indicated, with varying degrees of clarity, that they oppose joining a ruling coalition with Arab parties. Calev Ben-Dor points out that talk before elections is often very different from what actually happens at the negotiating tables afterwards, and that the Arab vote is too big simply to ignore.
October 28, 2026
Israeli Arabs Have a Vote, Too
The two Arab parties might have significant leverage in coalition negotiations.
The Home Minyan Goes to Court
The Supreme Court will hear a landmark case about Jewish prayer.
From Mosul to Auschwitz
An Iraqi historian goes to Poland and learns about his own country.
The 400-Year History of Hebrew Punctuation
Not an invention of wicked settler colonialists.