Herut

Israel is proud to present itself as “the only democracy in the Middle East” and, on the purely formal level, one cannot refute the fact. It is also…

God told Adam in the Garden of Eden to name all the fowl of the air and beasts of the field – but not the fishes, which he couldn’t see. That was…

The Israel-China Friendship Society and the Association of Former Residents of China (Igud Yotzei Sin) in conjunction with representatives of the…

PARENTS OF CHILDREN under the age of three depend on regular daycare so that they can go to work. But several times during September and October,…

"Sick and getting sicker” is how oceanographers and environmentalists often describe the Mediterranean. The sea’s already polluted waters are…

The Prime Minister's Office on Sunday spoke with government ministers about meetings held Saturday night in which the impending end of the moratorium…

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that he is returning to Israel from New York to try to convince the government of the need to compromise on the…

Although thousands of activists plan to rally on Sunday in the Revava settlement to mark the end of the West Bank construction freeze, which is due…

When Michael Eitan was a boy in the early years of the state, growing up in north Tel Aviv not far from the beach, the older kids in the neighborhood…

Israel is a very porous country, in the sense that individuals and organizations, particularly with money, can easily gain influence. This is both a…

MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) is more accustomed to attacks for being on the far right of the Likud, but on Sunday, the chairwoman of the Knesset…

Most of the people who crowded into the auditorium of the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem last week were in their eighties and nineties. All of…

When Jews lived under the yoke of others, they were often prevented from owning land. Researchers into Jewish history and anti-Semitism tend to…

If there is one game which encapsulates the deep-rooted, politically motivated passion of Israeli soccer it is Hapoel Tel Aviv vs Betar…

Filial devotion doesn’t get much stronger than this. Yossi Ahimeir, journalist, writer, former director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office and…

To say that Sallai Meridor suffers from Jerusalem syndrome would be a tad trite. But talk about the Holy City with the former ambassador to the US…

Hearken back to the great ideological divisions of the Zionist movement: Weizmann versus Jabotinsky, Ben-Gurion versus Begin, Mapai versus Herut. In…

n IS NUMBER 8 Rehov Harav Kook becoming the new communications center in Jerusalem? It would seem so, judging by the number of…

At first, I stayed in Haifa for a day or two, even going to Kiryat Bialik, a satellite town, to visit a school, but the pandemonium there convinced…

On Pessah morning in 1946, Mrs. Margaret Ashton Stimson Lindsley crossed the moat surrounding the Acre Prison in British Mandatory Palestine. She…