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“There’s nothing more ‘status quo’ than uncivil marriage,” acknowledges MK Tzipi Livni. Jerusalem, March 3 – Political, cultural, and religious forces continue to vie for supremacy in resolving the question of whether Israel will recognize civil marriage, but even the ...

Such a medium dovetails with the entire society’s primary means of expression and communication. Jerusalem, February 24 – Israeli candidates for prime minister have not held a debate since the 1998 elections, but incumbent Binyamin Netanyahu and Opposition leader Isaac ...

“Political donors want to use us for their own purposes and have refused to fully get behind our movement.” Tel Aviv, February 18 – A once-hopeful new player on Israel’s electoral scene has had trouble convincing the electorate of its sincerity, ...

  “It’s a documented feature of the Israeli economy that you can see right from the day Netanyahu took office.” Tel Aviv, February 4 – Opposition leader Isaac Herzog laced into incumbent Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on the economic front ...

Jerusalem, January 27 – The sudden collapse of Facebook and Instagram this morning inconvenienced more than a billion people, but perhaps none more so than the Israeli cabinet, who were now forced to pay attention during their weekly meeting. Long ...

“I think it speaks to the level of control the Zionist-controlled media has over the rest of the so called independent media.” London, January 24 – Mira Bar-Hillel, a British-Israeli Journalist working for the Evening Standard, helped break a story ...

‘An eternal two-digit number of minutes’ Tel Aviv, January 21 – Opposition leader and current electoral front-runner Isaac Herzog showed an unprecedented level of restraint in Israeli politics this morning by refraining from using today’s stabbing attack in Tel Aviv ...

Jerusalem, January 17 – The confluence of poor polling results and a swath of recently-emerged corruption allegations has prompted several prominent figures in the hard-line Yisrael Beiteinu party to embrace Islam rather than participate in upcoming elections with the party. ...

Atlanta, January 10 – In the interest of journalistic balance, the international news giant Cable News Network announced today it would pay $10,000 to individuals who submitted stories, or leads that produced stories, that cast Islamists in a positive light. ...

Tel Aviv, January 3 – Israel responded today to the abortive Palestinian statehood bid at the Security Council by announcing it would cease its transfer of tax revenues it collects for the Palestinian Authority, prompting the political party Meretz to ...