Activists Protest Arms Sales to Human Rights Violators
byIsraelis need to ask ourselves if selling arms to human rights abusers is really an expression of the Jewish values we want our state to represent.
Analysis
Hunger Strike Demanding State Tax Rolling Tobacco
byMember of Knesset Rabbi Yehuda Glick (Likud) entered his fourteenth day of hunger strike on Monday. MK Glick began his hunger strike to demand…
Kushner Pressures Abbas with Al Quds Interview
byUnited States President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner has said that he is “ready to work” with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud…
Protestors Demand Justice for Yemenite families
byHundreds of protesters gathered outside the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem Thursday evening, demanding that the government recognize claims that babies from Jewish Yemenite…
Court Rejects Duma Confessions Made Under Torture
byThe disparity between how Israel treats Jewish & Palestinian prisoners should be corrected not by lowering the standard for how we treat Jews but by raising the standard for how we treat Palestinians.
Health Ministry Unofficially Blocking Medical Cannabis
byIsrael’s Representative for Public Complaints Report said Monday that in 2017, Israel’s ministry of health was reported to have unjustifiably blocked the use of…
Clashes in Tapuah West Ahead of Demolition
byIsraeli security forces began expelling Jewish families Sunday morning from the 10 homes in the Tapuah West village in the northern West Bank’s Samaria…
Why Elazar Wasn’t Amona
byIsraeli security forces destroyed 15 homes this week in the town of Elazar’s Netiv HaAvot neighborhood. Elazar is one of the communities comprising the…
Netiv HaAvot in Context
byFifteen Jewish homes were destroyed by Israeli security forces this week in the Judean town of Elazar’s Netiv HaAvot neighborhood. Elazar, which is part…
Meimad Party Attempting Political Comeback
byLast Thursday, the Meimad movement convened a membership gathering at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum aimed at reactivating the party before Israel’s next national election…
Lapid: Netanyahu Willing to Divide Jerusalem
byTrump’s plan shouldn’t be seen as a departure from previous US attempts to implement a two-state solution. The real difference lies in Trump’s belief in his own ability to aggressively bulldoze it through.
New US Aid Package Could Close Hundreds of Factories & Cost Thousands of Jobs
byAn estimated loss of 4 billion shekels per year could lead to the closure of 130 factories that currently employ workers from Israel’s weakest sectors.