Opinion

The alliance that Bennett and Lapid unveiled this week is young and might well fail the way so many others have before it. But two things can already be said in its favor.

The Bennett–Lapid alliance highlights Israel’s fixation on politics over policy, and the need for a reset.

New party, old reality: Israel’s elections still revolve around blocs and the question of Netanyahu.

The cultural tide has turned harder than the political class wants to admit, and it has turned in a direction Bennett’s new vehicle was not built to ride.

Study after study has warned that prolonged instability, trauma, isolation, and disrupted schooling harm children’s mental health, weaken belonging, and can surface in violence.

Israel has conducted numerous military incursions into Lebanon, but Hezbollah remains a threat.

Orthodox institutions have long grappled with the distance between the ideals a teacher preaches and the life he actually leads.

A police force that detains a citizen and destroys his personal property because of a symbol on his kippah is precisely the kind of abuse that strong democratic safeguards exist to prevent.

Israeli man arrested and kippah torn by the police, illustrates the colonization of minds and reflects the decline of the idea of coexistence in Israel-Palestine.

In an age of distraction, Jewish knowledge is no longer about knowing everything, but about engaging deeply with the core texts that shape understanding, practice, and meaning.