Just Because the Knesset Closed for a Few Days, Israeli Democracy Was Not about to Collapse
The political crisis is real, but the hysteria is unwarranted.
March 24, 2020
Raed Salah, Who Spread Islamism among Arab Israelis, Goes to Jail
The man behind Temple Mount violence.
Last month, an Israeli court sentenced the jihadist leader Raed Salah to 28 months in prison for his role in inciting the 2017 terrorist attack on the Temple Mount, in which his followers murdered two Druze police officers. Born in 1954, Salah—whose father and two brothers served in the Israeli police—was part of a wave of Arabs who were drawn into the Muslim Brotherhood, and has himself done as much as anyone to promote its ideology among his fellow Arab citizens of the Jewish state. Shaul Bartal explains:
March 24, 2020
Raed Salah, Who Spread Islamism among Arab Israelis, Goes to Jail
The man behind Temple Mount violence.
Gaza’s Rich Jewish History Includes Decades of Friendship with Local Arabs
From the Hasmoneans, to a famed poet, to the rabbi and imam who coauthored a book.
Does Talmud Study Really Explain Jews’ Remarkable Contributions to Modern Civilization?
Genius and Anxiety.
How a Once-in-a-Generation 19th-Century Rabbi Responded to Cholera
Clean your houses, wash your hands, don’t eat pickles—and avoid crowds.