As Israel enters the final month before the election, officials must resist vote-buying through public spending, while critics should not label every government decision electioneering.
Israel, despite having a semi-socialist medical system, not only keeps the tax but, in a way, increases it. Shelf prices are massively inflated compared to other countries.
The chair of Yisrael Beytenu still has one more goal to achieve before he bids farewell to his illustrious political career.
Berlin’s election is a warning: Germany’s political center is losing ground as antisemitism moves into the mainstream.
Nevertheless, I would like to react to an aspect of Netanyahu's speech that I fully support, another one that I totally disagree with, and a third that left me “bewitched, bothered, and bewildered.”
Statistics show the opposite, with an Arab population boom prevalent in the West Bank.
In the age of celebrity politics, judge leaders by actual results. Politics has become a personality contest. That is exactly why voters need to look past the sound bites, and at the record
Years of institutional caution contributed to the hesitation and confusion that allowed terrorists to pour across the Gaza border on October 7. The failures that day were many.
Demanding full equality and opposing military occupation should not place anyone outside legitimate political life. Arab citizens have the same right as Jewish citizens to elect representatives.
I support the decision to disqualify Ra’am from the upcoming election. I also believe that disqualifying a political party and denying citizens the ability to vote for it is bad for democracy.
"I am no longer the person I was prior to that day. For me, October 7th has never receded into the past tense. It penetrated my core, my psyche, my very phenomenology."
