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Jun 19, 2018, 1:47 AM

Transparency is the fuel of democracy and the enemy of a dictatorship

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation's decision to approve MK Robert Ilatov's (Yisrael Beytenu) bill forbidding the photographing of IDF soldiers in the course of their duties shows how badly we need to open our eyes. Our soldiers and our policemen...

S Ovwata Onojieruo

Jun 5, 2018, 7:36 AM

Why Arab-Israelis need to step-up

As a response to Naomi Chazan's article titled 'The Israeli government needs more Arabs,' which though written with great intellectual and scholastic prowess as well as detailed empirical data analysis, have yet lacked a most basic appeal in directly...

May 31, 2018, 6:43 AM

Eitan Cabel’s wrongs and rights

Cabel’s Wrongs MK Eitan Cabel’s Annexation Plan, publicized in The Times of Israel last week, has caused quite the commotion on the Israeli Left as a whole – and in the Labor party (and the alliance it belongs to –...

May 21, 2018, 10:02 PM

Be the sheep dog

“There are three types of people in this world, sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves. Choose to be like the sheepdog and protect the flock.” -- Joshua Boone I speak with thousands of lone soldiers, they each have their own motivations and reasons...

May 15, 2018, 12:03 PM

The US embassy, the 3,000 year old truth, Gaza, and the hand-wringing kvetchers

As I watched the ceremony of the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel, there were moments when I had tears in my eyes. But in the middle of the proceedings, an interesting thought occurred to me. This actually...

Nina B. Mogilnik

May 9, 2018, 9:38 PM

The Axis of Arrogance

It is easy to be angry these days. If you live on one side or the other of our deep political divides, tossing dirt over the fence at your opponent(s) has become a kind of national sport, whether in...

May 8, 2018, 12:05 AM

Furthermore, They Are of the Opinion That Democracy Should Be Destroyed

Much has been said as of late about the latest legislative effort to curtail the Israeli Supreme Court, led by the “Jewish Home”. Some, particularly on the Right, support this legislation, though in different versions. There are those, such...

May 6, 2018, 5:58 PM

Restoring Balance to Israeli Democracy

Democracy is based on checks and balances between the three branches of government - Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. For the past number of years, though, the delicate balance between the Legislative and Judicial branches of Israel's democracy has been...

May 3, 2018, 9:28 PM

Separate policy from politics

Israel needs to separate policy from politics to enhance national security, to prevent a collapse of democracy, to retain judicial integrity and to enhance the identity of Judaism and more. The reason is no more and no less a...

May 1, 2018, 11:06 AM

To stop Haredi army shirkers: inspect yeshivas

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews with police to protest against a national draft bill, Jerusalem, April 10, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

To draft the fraudsters who ‘learn Torah’ to avoid army service, checking attendance is a good start

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