Response ·
Benjamin Netanyahu Deserves Credit for Israel’s Stunning Triumph—and for Its Stunning Failures
By Shany MorThe prime minister doggedly pursued a strategy that few would have dared.
Israeli politics
Latest Mosaic Content for Israeli politics
Observation ·
Everyone Loves Calling Israeli Politicians “Messianic.” Why?
By PhilologosThe historical roots of Israelis’ favorite political epithet.
Observation ·
Podcast: Micah Goodman on What He’s Learned about Israel in the Past Year-and-a-Half
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Dr. Micah GoodmanWar, social divisions, and social resilience.
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Jews Living in the West Bank Didn’t Undermine Israel’s Security or Empower Hamas
By Cole S. Aronson, Avi BellThe anti-settler konseptzia.
Monthly Essay ·
How Israelis Probe Their Failings
By Scott AbramsonSince its birth, the Jewish state has convened unusually powerful commissions to investigate its own mistakes. Will the same happen now, and if not, why?
Observation ·
What the Demographics of Israel’s Fallen Soldiers Reveal about the Country
By Rafi DeMoggeMany on the Israeli right claim that the soldiers who fight and die for the country no longer belong to the old secular elite but to a rising national-religious one. Are they correct?
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The Grandchild Clause’s Seeds of Compromise
By Yehoshua PfefferAn arrangement involving eliminating the Grandparent Clause but recognizing patrilineal descent for purposes of the Law of Return just might be feasible.
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Statistics Don’t Tell the Whole Story about Israel’s Demographics
By Ofir HaivryUnderneath the checked boxes, Israeli politics isn't so easily captured by markers of identity.
Monthly Essay ·
The Looming War Over Israel’s Law of Return
By Rafi DeMoggeOver the coming years, Israel's most famous law will become an object of political gamesmanship and a potential tool for demographic engineering—no matter who will be in power.
Monthly Essay ·
Israel’s Judicial Reckoning
By Evelyn GordonIsrael's court is abnormally powerful and has caused half the nation to lose faith in its government. Reform will help, as long as it doesn't cause the other half to do the same.
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Why Israel Needs a Better Political Class
By Evelyn GordonIts twin coronavirus and budget crises are problems caused by—and only fixable by—political leaders, not bureaucratic maneuvering.
Monthly Essay ·
Israel’s Deep State Is Undemocratic, Unaccountable, and Completely Indispensable
By Haviv Rettig GurHow does Israel keep functioning despite constant political turmoil? Meet the opaque group of unelected bureaucrats that the country’s politicians rely on to save it from themselves.
Observation ·
How the Names of Israeli Political Parties Became So Jingly
By PhilologosIt's part of a trend away from names that once projected clear identities (Workers' Party) and toward the politics of advertising (There Is a Future).
Monthly Essay ·
Why All the Outrage over Israel’s Nation-State Law?
By Moshe Koppel, Eugene KontorovichThe controversial new law has been reviled as “an assassination of democracy” and a subversion of the founding principles of the Jewish state. It's neither.
Monthly Essay ·
Disorder in the Court
By Evelyn GordonHow Israel's supreme court has effected its own constitutional revolution—and thereby undermined public confidence in the rule of law.
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A New Israeli Consensus
By Neil RogachevskySure, its politics are chaotic. But on several of the most important issues, Israel today is less divided than it has been in a long time.
Observation ·
Israel’s Imperious Judiciary
By Moshe KoppelA madly intrusive justice system is one of the most potent threats the country faces. Can it be stopped?
Observation ·
The Temple Mount: In Whose Hands?
By Rabbi Meir SoloveichikThe reason Jews can't pray at Judaism's holiest site.
