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Israel can learn from US experience with democracy - opinion

The judicial reform crisis should be turned into a moment of renewed unity and rebirth of democracy.

|ByYITZ GREENBERG
SUPREME COURT President Ester Hayut (front) sits in the VIP balcony in the Knesset plenum, watching a special session marking the 74th anniversary of the Israeli parliament’s founding, on Monday.
Teddy Kollek with Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, on the Kinneret

Ben-Gurion did what he said he would do

Ben-Gurion treated the Knesset with respect, honored the forms as well as the content of democracy.

|ByAVRAHAM AVI-HAI
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Top quotes by those who helped shape the State of Israel

The history of Zionism and Israel is written in a large part with a Russian accent.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Shimon Peres takes part in a meeting in Ottawa, May 2012

One year on: Friends and colleagues remember 'eternally optimistic' Peres

A year after his passing, friends, family and colleagues from around the world reminisced about Shimon Peres in Jaffa Wednesday.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN