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 almost no flights in or ...
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. ...
Apeirogon, the new novel by acclaimed author Colum McCann, could take place anywhere, yet is also essentially ...
Israel's publicly funded universities now offer gender-segregated programs to help the ultra-Orthodox earn degrees. But at what price? ...
Just thinking about the government that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is forming fills me with a deep sense of dread. ...
On May 17, Israel’s Supreme Court banned Michael Ben Ari, leader of the Otzma Yehudit (“Jewish Party”) party from running in the April 9 general elections. But the issue of racism in Israeli society is far from over. ...
In Never a Native, Alice Shalvi, a founding mother of Israeli feminism, has written a book that is both inspiring and painful. ...
In early December, under banners declaring “This is an emergency” and carrying signs with pictures of the 24 women murdered in 2018, more than 20,000 women gathered in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest against femicide and gender-based violence in Israel. ...
Rivka Carmi In 2006, Rivka Carmi became the president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), making her the first
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As Israel’s municipal elections, scheduled for October 30, come closer, we are caught between two Jerusalems. ...
I didn’t want to listen to Hagai El-Ad, director of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, as he provided an official briefing to the United Nations Security Council about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank last week. ...
The story of Israel’s founding usually goes something like this: Sun-kissed male and female pioneers plowed the fields by day,
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