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“It’s time to set aside the political machinations that took up so much of my time and to go elsewhere, to focus on nurturing those lousy, counterproductive ideas in the warm environment of my Haifa home.” Jerusalem, January 13 – A ...

“The High Court will assume the powers of the government and the Knesset, to prevent the erstwhile occupants of those offices from overstepping the legal limits we have just set.” Jerusalem, January 2 – Israel’s High Court of Justice threw ...

Each one interpreting the Hanukkah story in keeping with his or her rhetorical or political sympathies. Jerusalem, December 24 – Figures from across the political spectrum joined today in the venerable festive practice of characterizing opponents as latter-day manifestations of ...

The causative link also exists in wider Arab society throughout the Middle East, where both video games and regular elections of any real democratic import remain vanishingly rare. Tel Aviv, December 12 – Researchers seeking to explain the many more rounds of ...

Acknowledgement of a social reality. Jerusalem, December 4 – A movement that features doctrine, apostles, saints, a vision to transform society to conform to its tenets, and apocalyptic predictions if that vision does not become reality, has attained official status with ...

If calls for his resignation stem from genuine concern for the integrity of Israeli democracy and rule of law, and not just an opportunity to get rid of the person who stands in the way of their own designs. Jerusalem, ...

Accepting pointless elections every few months as an inescapable fact of life, to be managed rather than overcome, that’s something else entirely. Kibbutz Zikim, November 14 – The most recent barrages of missiles from Islamist groups in the neighboring Gaza ...

Officials admitted they find it difficult to identify any phenomenon other than Rabin’s assassination that paints the left in a positive light and the right in a negative one, given that the left’s policies resulted in so much carnage. Tel ...

A crucial measure at a time when those who exploit vulnerable victims for lustful satisfaction or for a sense of power face increasing isolation and threats to their continued political influence. Jerusalem, October 24 – Every delegation to the Knesset restated its ...

“We Palestinians know the same treatment at the hands of the rapacious, plundering invader.” Jerusalem, September 26 – A legislator from the Joint List alliance of Arab parties accused supporters of Jewish self-determination of subjecting millions of flying, pollinating insects ...