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Get email notification for articles from Allison Kaplan Sommer Follow May. 31, 2021 4:18 PM Miriam Peretz and Isaac Herzog are two halves of the perfect president of Israel. The country’s top satire show, “Eretz Nehederet” (“A Wonderful Country”), hit on the idea in a parody of a debate featuring the final two candidates vying for the post. While the actor portraying Herzog robotically rattled off his impressive qualifications, the actress playing Peretz couldn’t stop emoting about her deep affection for Israel and preaching to the country’s warring tribes to hug it out. “Yo...

Reviewing: “The Zionist Ideas” by Gil Troy. Jewish Publication Society. 2018. English. Paperback. 608 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0827612556. One of the most interesting books I ever read was “The Zionist Idea” by Arthur Hertzberg, published in 1959. It was a collection of excerpts from the writings of Jewish thinkers in the pre-Zionism stage and in the early years of the Jewish state. It began with excerpts from the precursors such as R. Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Moses Hess. The book then moved on to Russia in the 1870s and 1880s with excerpts from Peretz Smolenskin, Eliezer Ben-Yehudah, Mose...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In the land of impossible politics it is the new national sport of pundits, journalists and probably ordinary citizens-form a new government and save the beloved country. Some crazy ideas are surfacing, for example, have Naftali Bennett as PM with his seven seats, something which under normal ...

What’s Wrong with Israel’s Political System? Flash 90 The March 23, 2021 elections in Israel – the fourth election cycle in two years – failed once again to produce decisive results and the country is left to wonder if there is any way out of its current political stalemate. Although Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu’s Likud party emerged again as the largest faction in the Israeli parliament (Knesset) with thirty seats– the party actually lost six seats, and the right-wing bloc of parties aligned with the Likud came just short of a 61-member majority....

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Credit: James Marlow Binyamin Netanyahu’s task to form a new government ends on 4th May and the question is, how does he increase his coalition partners from 52 mandates (Likud 30, Shas 9, United Torah Judaism 7 and Religious Zionists 6) to 61 mandates? Naftali Bennett and Netanyahu have now...