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11 Jan
Opinion, Winter Issue 2023

Opinion | Who’s Afraid of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich?

  • January 12, 2023
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
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Israel’s most recent election results, in which the Israeli people slammed the door on left-wing politicians and completely voted out the extreme left-wing Meretz party, have allowed it to create the most right-wing government in the nation’s history. 

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A Hasidic rabbi prays
29 Jun
Opinion, Summer Issue 2022

Opinion | Inside a Hasidic Schism

  • July 26, 2022
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
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On two evenings in late May, the streets of Jerusalem were once again the scene of violent riots.

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Nissim Shitrit
20 Jan
Opinion, Winter Issue 2022

Opinion | Blinded by a Black Hat

  • February 9, 2022
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
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I remember the Shitrit family. Very devout new immigrants from Morocco, they lived in the building next to mine in Sanhedria Murchevet, the dusty Northern Jerusalem neighborhood designated for religious olim, or immigrants, by the Jewish Agency in the 1970s.

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08 Sep
2021 September/October, Israel, Jewish World, Opinion

Opinion | Why I Left Jerusalem

  • October 13, 2021
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
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After 50-something years, and to the astonishment of our children and grandchildren, at the end of June my husband and I packed up our things and left Jerusalem, moving halfway across the country to settle in Zichron Yaakov, a quaint, hilltop village overlooking the sea.

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08 Mar
Israel, Opinion, Spring issue 2021, World

Opinion | A Daycare Tragedy Opens My Eyes

  • December 20, 2021
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
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Sometimes a single truth, belatedly discovered, can change one’s world view with surprising swiftness.

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10 Nov
2020 November/December, Coronavirus, Opinion

Opinion | Covid Is Ripping Israel Apart

  • March 28, 2022
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
  • 1 comment
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When COVID-19 reached Israel last March, I was not unduly worried.

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10 Jun
Coronavirus, Israel, Opinion, Summer Issue 2020

Opinion | The Rebellion of Israel’s Haredim

  • December 22, 2021
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
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In mid-January 2020, when Israelis first became dimly aware of a mysterious new virus coming from far-off China, most of our attention was focused closer to home.

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30 Dec
Israel, Winter Issue 2020, World

Opinion | Mike Pompeo Was Right

  • December 22, 2021
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
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When my daughter Bracha decided to sell her apartment in Modi’in, a small city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and move to a spacious corner house in Elkana, one of the first settlements over the so-called Green Line, no ideology or nefarious government scheme played any part in her decision.

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26 Aug
2019 September/October, World

Opinion | How Israel Is Failing Its Ethiopian Citizens

  • December 22, 2021
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
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This July, thousands of Ethiopian Jews participated in sit-ins, blocking main roads all over Israel with burning tires. More than 100 police officers were injured and more than 136 demonstrators arrested.

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14 Mar
2019 March-April, Israel

Opinion | Looking Beyond Netanyahu

  • December 23, 2021
  • By author-avatar Naomi Ragen
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Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked

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