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Follow Apr. 2, 2021 Israelis are used to turning on the evening news at 8 P.M. and finding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s face there. But on Thursday evening, instead of watching the prime minister enumerate his achievements in the war on the coronavirus, viewers saw the face of United Arab List Chairman Mansour Abbas – flanked by the green flags of the Islamic Movement – appealing to the Israeli public in Hebrew and during prime time. It was an extraordinary sight. “I, Mansour Abbas, a member of the Islamic Movement, an Arab and a proud Muslim, extend my hand … to create an op...

Follow Apr. 1, 2021 The Noam Party, supposedly acting independently of the Religious Zionism ticket it ran on in the election, has made a jumble of outrageous demands as a condition to joining a coalition headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One of them was a mysterious clause packed with numbers that raised particular attention. It was the demand to “amend Cabinet Resolution 2331, which requires state institutions to act according to the UN’s Resolution 1325.” It is a very specific demand involving a cabinet resolution that most Israelis have unfortunately never heard of, and w...

The military did not provide a breakdown of how many soldiers had been vaccinated and how many recovered. Recovering from the illness is thought to provide strong protection against the virus. The discovery last month that two Israelis who had recovered from the illness had been reinfected by the new South African strain has led to discussions about whether recovered patients should also be vaccinated.  Prof. Alon Galzberg, the army’s surgeon-general, said the IDF is “the first army in the world to achieve herd immunity in confronting the coronavirus pandemic.” In a briefing to reporte...

Elector is just one of the election day apps used in Israel. A review reveals how its used by the Likud to get private info. Meanwhile, a data leak from a competing app and party shows how risky election tech can be

Labor was on the brink of extinction only a couple of weeks ago. Now it’s Meretz’s turn to signal polling distress. Why are Israel’s old parties of the left, once in power, now on life-support?