Israel Sees a Rise in Domestic Violence Amid the Coronavirus Crisis
At least three women in Israel. have been murdered since the lockdown began in March....
Author: Eetta Prince-Gibson
Israelis and Palestinians Work Together to Fight COVID-19
Cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian medical professionals to battle COVID-19 virus has been taking place since mid-February. ...
Will Israel Finally Have a Government?
Israel is now about to have a government for the first time in almost a year and a half. How did it get here?...
Arab-Jewish Equality Does Not Extend Beyond the Medical System
Mahmoud, the nurse working in the hospital in the north, concludes, “the medical system is a place of equality between Arabs and Jews, both for staff and for patients. But outside of the medical system, Arabs are discriminated against in many ways. We have needed...
Israel’s Weakened Health Care System Leads to a Near-Total Lockdown
Israel was one of the first countries to respond forcefully to the coronavirus. Many of the steps taken to contain the virus were later adopted by other advanced countries. The regulations are intended to “flatten the curve”—that is, to prevent a spike in the number...
Gaza Fears Impending Coronavirus Outbreak
The possibility of a full outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in the Gaza Strip is both likely and terrifying. More than two million people, over half of them children, live in the 139-square-mile area, one of the world’s most highly-populated regions. Unemployment stands at 52...
Israeli Humor in the Time of Coronavirus
Like most first-world people stuck in their homes, Israelis are using traditional and social media to connect with others and distract themselves. And like everyone else, they are sharing humor to pass the time. We have the run of English-language humor, from Jimmy Fallon to Broadway...
Ultra-Orthodox Communities See Israel’s New Social Cohesion as a Threat
Much of the time, Israeli society is fractured by differences and resentments. Sometimes, we define ourselves more by whom we’re against than what we stand for: Jews vs. Arabs, religious vs. secular, right vs. left, Mizrachm vs. Ashkenazim, rich vs. poor, the periphery vs. the...
COVID-19 Causes Israelis to Play by the Rules
Israel was one of the first countries to respond quickly and sternly to the pandemic. Internationally, it was one of the first countries to shut ourselves off from the rest of the world. Foreigners are almost completely forbidden from entering the country and there are...
Four Takeaways from Israel’s Tri-peat Election
Israelis went to the polls yet again on March 2, for the third time in less than a year. Here are four takeaways from this week’s election. ...