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Israel’s Political Purgatory “I fear for my country.” Powerful words from a president in a titular, neutral role. Yet, late Tuesday morning, when announcing that he was granting Benjamin Netanyahu the privilege of working to negotiate a majority coalition in the 120 seat Knesset, that is exactly what President Reuven Rivlin said. “I fear for my country.” I find that chilling. While it is important to note that the personal bad blood between Rivlin and Netanyahu is no secret in Israel, the president is no drama queen. Rivlin’s rigorous adherence to upholding the integrity of his of...

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90 (L-R) – MKs Menachem Mozes, Yakov Litzman, Zeev Elkin, Moshe Gafni, Meir Porush, and Uri Maklev sign a coalition agreement between UTJ and Likud, April 1, 2009. United Torah Judaism Torah Judaism leaders Moshe Gafni, Yaakov Litzman, and Meir Porush, stated on Monday that they would demand the enactment of the overcoming clause as a condition for the formation of the next government, because, in their opinion, yesterday’s High Court decision to recognize Reform and Conservative conversions in Israel for the first time had a disastrous impact on the v...

Israel's handling of coronavirus seems like a success. Residents tell a different story. Yardena Schwartz © Provided by NBC News TEL AVIV — As Israel outpaces Western nations in its Covid-19 vaccination effort, it has become a role model for a world aching to return to life as it once was. The country has inoculated a third of its population of 9 million in little more than a month, and over 80 percent of those 60 and older. But if you ask most Israelis, the country's handling of the coronavirus has been anything but a success story. A recent poll by the nonpartisan Israel...

A Showdown Over COVID Restrictions Looms in Israel In Israel, a bus driver was attacked, beaten, and escaped miraculously moments before his vehicle was torched by a vicious mob. The blaze raged for more than a half-hour before firefighters showed up. Apartment windows melted from the heat. Without a police escort, firefighters refused to enter the area, due to frequent attacks upon them by the local population. In the same city earlier in the week, police officers in a car were attacked and the vehicle was smashed with rocks, hammers, and other weapons. Then there was the police officer surr...

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Malka Leifer seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court, July 20, 2020. On Monday, thirteen years after former Adass Israel school principal Malka Leifer from Melbourne, who is accused of committing dozens of sexual offenses against minors, fled from Australia to Israel, she was extradited to Australian authorities by the Israel Prison Service in a covert operation led by Interpol. Her extradition was made possible after last month Israel’s Supreme Court rejected her appeal and recommended she be handed over...