The Knesset Has Resumed Its Business, but Both Sides Have Broken Unwritten Rules
Was Yuli Edelstein justified in keeping the Knesset closed?
March 27, 2020
The Knesset Has Resumed Its Business, but Both Sides Have Broken Unwritten Rules
Was Yuli Edelstein justified in keeping the Knesset closed?
Yesterday, eleven months of political stalemate in Israel appeared to have come to an end as the sitting prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his main rival, Benny Gantz, agreed to form a unity government together with some of the smaller parties. This development has fractured Gantz’s Blue and White party into its constituent factions. Meanwhile, the resignation of Yuli Edelstein as interim Knesset speaker—a position meant to be occupied for just a few hours, but which he has held for nearly a year—has allowed the Knesset to resume business as usual.
March 27, 2020
Now Is Not the Time to Extend Sanctions Relief to Iran
The suffering caused by the coronavirus is the fault of the regime.
As with Past Plagues, Beware an Outbreak of Anti-Semitism
There have already been telling signs.
For Medieval Jews, Fantasies of Jewish Kingdoms Served a Polemical Purpose
A way to refute Christian claims that God had abandoned the Jews.
There Can Be No Freedom without Morality
As society loses its moral grounding, cooperation becomes impossible, while the state is forced to tend to the consequences of moral collapse.