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Smotrich said that the fact that the haredim did not serve in the IDF was “painful,” but that as a public servant, he did not ...

Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism, the Haredim of Shas and UTJ, and Itamar Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power. Changes in many of these groups, as well as within Netanyahu himself have created a New Right in ...

In this careful mapping of the terrain, Dahlia Scheindlin examines whether the forward march of women in Israel has been halted. She charts early revolutionary advances, assesses the scale of recent ...

Alex Stein argues that by imposing a rigid ideological standard for scholarship on Israel-Palestine, the new journal Palestine/Israel Review seeks to delegitimise the discipline of Israel Studies and ...

In this thought-provoking essay, Sarit Larry examines Israel’s discourse of ‘security’ through the prism of Hannah Arendt’s seminal essay ‘On Violence’. Israel’s focus on control of the means of ...

In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both Nasser’s decision to threaten to destroy Israel in 1967 ... which in 1946 ‘spoke of Arab hatred of the Jews being greater ...

In early April, deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with Haaretz’s intelligence and security correspondent Yossi Melman and spoke about Israeli security ...

Her father studied at the Haifa Institute of Technology and became the first Bedouin engineer in Israel. Her mother grew up in Jatt ... teaching and mentoring in Sapir College in Sderot and Bezalel ...

The event that took place on October 7 is undoubtedly the most dramatic experience that the State of Israel has ever faced. Even the 1948 War of Independence or the 1973 Yom Kippur War did not cause ...

The world has reached a saturation point with Israel 101 books. We have enough options to guide readers through basic information about contemporary Israel’s history, politics, culture, population, ...

Anita Shapira rightly describes Israel’s first Prime Minister as a Jacobin – a product of revolutionary fin de siecle Eastern Europe, a cold enigmatic figure lacking charisma who changed the flow of ...