Anshel Pfeffer
Haaretz.com
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Past articles by Anshel:
Israel’s Long-awaited Secular Uprising Is Finally Here
Israel's wave of protests isn't just about the balance of power between the government and judiciary. It is also about a secular middle class fighting to preserve Israel’s essential character → Read More
Six Scenarios for the Next Four Weeks, When Israel’s Future Will Be Decided
Constitutional crisis? Economic meltdown? Security crisis with the Palestinians? It's all possible, as is total anarchy in the weeks leading up to Passover → Read More
Six Scenarios for the Next Four Weeks, When Israel’s Future Will Be Decided
The Knesset has taken a short break for Purim. For the first time since the new Netanyahu government’s presentation of its plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, the rushed legislative process has paused for a few days. Even the protests against the plan have slightly abated since the stellar turnout Saturday night. → Read More
The Reservist Protests Prove Netanyahu Has Lost the Patriot Card
Sunday’s report by Haaretz military correspondent Yaniv Kubovich on the refusal by nearly all reserve pilots of the Israel Air Force’s 69th Squadron to join in a training exercise this week, and their plans to attend the pro-democracy protest instead, is an unprecedented political move by reservists. → Read More
The Reservist Protests Prove Netanyahu Has Lost the Patriot Card
Military reservists are at the core of Israeli society, and they’ve made it a patriotic act to oppose this government and its attempts to overhaul the judiciary → Read More
How Netanyahu’s Pact With the Far Right Is Fracturing the pro-Israel Jewish World
Israel-Diaspora rift? No one expected that the split would be between the Israeli government and the establishment organizations that hitherto would never criticize Israel → Read More
Netanyahu Is Facing Political Disaster, and It's His Own Doing
Israel's prime minister is on track to disappoint either his own coalition or the security services, leading to a possible election – just what opposition leader Yair Lapid has angled for → Read More
Two Months Before Its 75th Independence Day, Israel Is Being Torn Apart
Israel’s Independence Day celebrations have generated their fair share of controversies in the past, but none will rival the ugly scenes we will likely see this April → Read More
Why No One Should Be Surprised by Settlers Rampaging Through a West Bank Town
The scenes of settlers running amok in Hawara on Sunday did not shock anyone in the West Bank, where settler violence and impunity have been features of daily life for many years → Read More
Israel's Ben-Gvir Vows to 'Crush Enemies' After Settlers' West Bank Revenge Riot
After two Israelis were shot dead in Hawara and settlers rioted in the town, Ben-Gvir issues tepid response instructing settlers not to 'take the law into hands,' adding 'this is a war for our lives' → Read More
What Zelenskyy Can Teach Israel’s Leaders About Jews and Democracy
A year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, several myths have been shattered – and not just the one about Vladimir Putin being a ‘special friend’ to the Jews → Read More
The Stand-off Between Israeli Protesters and Netanyahu Is Intensifying, and Neither Side Is Willing to Back Down
Coalition sources say the prime minister's partners won't let him back down, and his closest circle believes he is facing an insurrection from Israel’s security forces → Read More
The Stand-off Between Israeli Protesters and Netanyahu Is Intensifying, and Neither Side Is Willing to Back Down
“Hatikva,” Israel’s national anthem, is usually sung at the end of political demonstrations. That has been the case at all the previous rallies held over the past six weeks against the Netanyahu government’s plans to weaken the Supreme Court. → Read More
In Battle Over Israeli Democracy, Netanyahu Is Fighting His Own Former Spy Chiefs
Why a former head of Mossad and former chief of the Shin Bet, both of whom were appointed by Netanyahu, now find themselves fighting to stop the prime minister from destroying Israel's legal system → Read More
The Protest Group Both Netanyahu and His Opponents Never Saw Coming
Israel's high-tech industry stayed away from politics for years. Netanyahu knows that its involvement in recent protests against him is a significant development that cannot be ignored → Read More
Israel Judicial Overhaul: Netanyahu Holds the Key to President Herzog's Mediation Effort
The prime minister can go along with his coalition, most of which remains hellbent on eviscerating the judiciary, or he can cut his losses and accept President Isaac Herzog’s compromise → Read More
In Battle Over Israeli Democracy, Netanyahu Is Already Losing on the Most Important Front
The prime minister has never faced a protest wave like the one currently raging in the streets. When even Israel's comfortable middle classes are appalled, it's clear Netanyahu has a public opinion problem → Read More
In Battle Over Israeli Democracy, Netanyahu Is Already Losing on the Most Important Front
The prime minister has never faced a protest wave like the one currently raging in the streets. When even Israel's comfortable middle classes are appalled, it's clear Netanyahu has a public opinion problem → Read More
Netanyahu’s Jewish Fundamentalist Partners Are Pushing Him Into Unforced Errors
Netanyahu is only belatedly beginning to grasp the breadth and strength of the protest against his plans, and the fundamentalists in his coalition are abandoning their restraint and seizing Israel's national symbols → Read More
In Israel, a Civil War Is No Longer Unthinkable
As the Netanyahu government bulldozes through with its judicial legislation, talk among Israelis has turned to visceral fear and intransigence: Both sides feel this is the moment they win – or lose – their country → Read More