David B. Green
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A Civic Zionist’s Powerful Vision of a Truly Democratic Israel for All Its Citizens
If this is the time for a paradigm shift in the nature of Israel’s political regime, social entrepreneur Shuli Dichter’s ideas have a great deal to contribute – as revealed in his just-translated memoir → Read More
Israel’s anti-Netanyahu Protest Movement Can't Afford Political Purity Tests
Change begins under a big tent, making diversity key in Israel’s protest movement → Read More
The Fearless Activist Bringing Hope to Israel's Bedouin Women
Social worker-turned-activist Amal Elsana Alh’jooj has written a riveting memoir about her first four decades in Israel as a fighter for change, particularly on behalf of the women in her Bedouin community → Read More
The Arab-Jewish Duo Building Homes in Arab Cities – and Why It’s a Big Deal
Zim Urban’s Ayman Saif and Yoav Kaplan are putting up open-air malls that will cater to Arab Israelis’ modern tastes, but it’s their plans for housing that will particularly help close gaps with the Jewish community → Read More
Israel's 'Forgotten' Political Assassination Attempt Is More Relevant Than Ever
A 1952 controversy over Shabbat laws in Israel led to shocking violence. An insightful new documentary tells the story of David Zvi Pinkas, who died two months after a bomb exploded outside his door, and explains why it matters seven decades later → Read More
How Faith, Diplomacy and Double Dealing Gave the Holy Land to Britain
Many British leaders were also religious Christians who believed that the return of the Jews to Zion would hasten the coming of the Messiah. British Mandatory Palestine got its start exactly a century ago → Read More
‘The Netanyahus’: A crazy story about Netanyahu that has nothing to do with his political troubles
Joshua Cohen talks about his hilarious but dead-serious book ‘The Netanyahus,’ which he purportedly based on a real-life visit by Benzion Netanyahu (Bibi’s dad) to Cornell University in 1960 → Read More
'Collect the guns': After ISIS attack, Arab Israeli city pleads for help
The Islamist terrorists who killed a pair of Border Police officers in Hadera last month hailed from nearby Umm al-Fahm. Residents of the Arab city say government inaction against raging crime contributed to the tragedy → Read More
Why this retired Israeli officer went to study at an Islamic college
Avi Shalev swapped the Israeli army for classes conducted in classical Arabic, surrounded mainly by young Bedouin women who educated him on another side of life in Israel → Read More
Why did Israel’s government almost collapse this week? Haaretz answers your questions
A crisis over planting trees next to Bedouin communities exposed the government’s fragile standing. What does it all have to do with a decades-old split within Israel’s Islamic Movement? We try to explain → Read More
This day in Jewish history: The man whom America never repaid for its independence
Haym Salomon funded not only the Revolutionary War but several leading politicians. He died on January 6, 1785 - bankrupt → Read More
War and caprice: How Leo Tolstoy predicted 21st-century warfare
Author Samuel Moyn can’t help wondering whether ‘cleaner’ warfare is really more humane, and whether we want robots to be the ones doing the fighting → Read More
This Day in Jewish History: Uri Geller is born, spoons will be bent
Uri Geller, self-proclaimed telekineticist, said he received his supernatural powers from aliens, a claim he later rolled back somewhat. → Read More
This day in Jewish history: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, an under-appreciated female composer, dies
By all accounts a brilliant musician, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was always overshadowed by her brother Felix → Read More
Remembering Stuart Schoffman – journalist, screenwriter, translator and mensch
Schoffman, who died Sunday at 74, was a widely respected figure in the American-Israeli literary scene, though his storied career also included writing a Rob Lowe movie → Read More
Benny Gantz’s week of surprises
And a lost opportunity for a symbolic gesture that would have cost Israel nothing → Read More
Tree of Life massacre, three years on: How Pittsburgh's Jews overcame the tragedy
It was the worst antisemitic attack in American history, but the 2018 massacre also showed the strength and resilience of a city, a neighborhood, and a diverse Jewish community → Read More
Israel's next political battle: recognition of 1956 massacre of Arab citizens
The Kafr Qasem massacre took place 65 years ago this week. Now, a bill to formally recognize it and teach it in schools could potentially create some very unlikely bedfellows in the Knesset → Read More
Israel's next political battle: recognition of 1956 massacre of Arab citizens
The Kafr Qasem massacre took place 65 years ago this week. Now, a bill to formally recognize it and teach it in schools could potentially create some very unlikely bedfellows in the Knesset → Read More
This day in Jewish history: Taboo-trampling comic Lenny Bruce is born
Lenny Bruce began with impersonations, then pushed the boundaries of good taste - and the law. → Read More