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Get email notification for articles from Iris Leal Follow May. 2, 2021 12:15 AM As I write this column, trying to shed light on the coalition talks only hours after the disaster on Mount Meron, we only know one thing for sure: Everything that happens now will take place under the gloomy shadow of the tragedy and the failures that led to it. As we see details such as the cries of a child with no air to breathe or a ringing phone next to the body of a young man with the word “Mom” on the scr...

20 shares David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of "Still Life with Bombers" (2004) and "A Little Too Close to God" (2000), and co-author of "Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin" (1996). He previously edited The Jerusalem Post (2004-2011) and The Jerusalem Report (1998-2004). Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-Science Minister Ofir Akunis (L) at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on December 22, 2019, at the Prime Mini...

Wanted: Likudniks with backbone to confront Netanyahu Opinion: Senior party members stay silent as their leader attacks legal establishment that charged him with corruption, dissolves Knesset to prevent rival forming coalition and refuses to pass budget; how can any of them claim they can lead? Amos Malka | Published: 04.25.21 , 23:30 They are both accomplices to and victims of the political chaos of the past two years and have no one to blame but themselves. 4 צפייה בגלריה Flank...

1 shares Israeli police officers scuffle with demonstrators during a protest against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Prime Ministers residence in Jerusalem on April 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Dozens of protesters began amassing outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official Jerusalem residence on Saturday afternoon for the weekly demonstration against the premier, amid his ongoing trial for corruption charges. At least three people were detained by police on sus...

0 shares Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett at a press conference in the Knesset, in Jerusalem on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Yamina leader Naftali Bennett said Friday that he was involved in intensive efforts to set up a national unity government after coming to the conclusion that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was unwilling to make the necessary compromises to establish a right-wing government. Bennett, who has repeatedly said he prefers a right-wing government led by ...

Protection Gaps in Public Law Governing Cyberspace: Israel’s High Court’s Decision on Government-Initiated Takedown Requests Introduction On April 12, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued a decision rejecting a challenge by two Israeli nongovernmental organizations—Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel—to the legality of the practice by the Cyber Unit in the State Attorney’s Office of requesting online platforms to take down unlawful content. The court held, howeve...

Prime Minister Netanyahu is promoting legislation that that will institute direct elections for prime minister. How would this proposal work? Will it resolve the political stalemate? Would the Supreme Court rule on its legality? IDI experts weigh in.

By Ugo BardiI remember having met Carlo Maria Cipolla in Berkeley in the 1980s. At that time, I wasnt involved with biophysical studies, but I was already a fan of his work. His treatise on stupidity was truly a masterpiece of intelligence and humor. Then, his description of money forgers in Florence during the Middle Ages included also a mention of some of my remote ancestors, no doubt very enterprising people, actually too much! Cipolla was an incredibly brilliant writer and, in real life, he ...

Election reform might be the least of President Reuven Rivlins worries right now I’ve often quipped to my colleagues that the bane of my professional existence is preparing a news column on a Monday that will still be relevant days later, when most readers sit down to peruse it in earnest, and for a news cycle that travels at warp speed. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, here we go again. By the time you read this, you will know who President Reuven Rivlin tasked with the mandate to form a coaliti...

As was expected, President Reuven Rivlin tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming Israel’s next government. On Monday evening, after the end of the consultations, the possibility was raised that Lapid and Bennett could jointly request that Rivlin postpone his decision until Wednesday. Lapid was the first to say no. Despite Netanyahu’s empty accusations and fearmongering that Rivlin is against him, the truth remains that Rivlin has, in fact, tasked Netanyahu with forming a gover...