Iranians Are Growing Less Afraid of Their Government
While protests continue.
February 25, 2026
Why the Likud Rank-and-File Revolted over a Tax Cut
Bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu.
Yesterday, a large number of Likud members in the Knesset voted against a tax cut on imported goods, proposed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition. The measure was advance by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who belongs to another party—but in a parliamentary system like Israel’s, party members are supposed to fall in line with the government. They didn’t. Amit Segal explains why:
February 25, 2026
Why the Likud Rank-and-File Revolted over a Tax Cut
Bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Just Anti-Zionism” Gets a Federal Court’s Imprimatur
An affront to anti-discrimination law.
S.Y. Agnon’s Forgotten Purim Tale
“Those Who Err All Their Days, and One Man Who Erred Not at All.”
An Ancient Bronze Pan Is “Like a Book of Ethics Buried in the Ground”
“Just balances, just weights shall you have.”