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The Left is not treasonous and Zionism is part of my identity, says Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli in an interview with Gil Hoffman today on Inside Israel Today.
It's time to let the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) protect our citizens.
Despite the criticisms, Haredi society has positives that should be recognized.
No religious Jew would deny the merit that Torah study. But it is the height of folly to believe that a strong military is therefore unnecessary.
By Meir Indor
Let’s bring back the country’s Jewish soul and return the sanctity of Shabbat to the public sphere.
Just as the IRS targeted conservative groups, according a report, a leaked document states that Israel's Economic Affairs Ministry is targeting Haredi businesses and Yeshivos.
Eliminating all secular studies is taking "Talmud Torah k’neged kulom" to an absurd extreme.
The importance of the caucus on organ harvesting in China, sponsored recently by the Liberal Lobby in the Knesset, cannot be exaggerated.
Why didn't then Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and then Prime Minister Ehud Barak demand that all the footage shot by France 2 on that day be placed at Israel’s disposal to do a proper investigation?
There is a new group of zealots who have taken a cue from the price taggers. They refer to themselves as Torah taggers.
If Shas does agree to allow a secular core curriculum in their schools, that will put Ashkenazi Haredi leaders between a rock and a hard place.
By Batya Medad
The proposed budget harms the poor more than the rich.
With all the good intention of Israel’s rabbinic leaders, how could they not see that this was going to happen?
What I do not understand is the harshness of his condemnation.
For Lapid to successfully challenge Netanyahu, he will need to find the right time for a strategic exit from the government.
By Batya Medad
In actuality, Lapid as Finance Minister, isn't doing all that well.
What is developing behind-the-scenes? What secret diplomatic activity is occurring? Will there be a new 'holy basin' plan?
Netanyahu made an invaluable turnabout in the way Israel explains itself. We must complete that turnabout. We must not go half way.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
A zoning plan that would have enabled the creation of critical Arab facts-on-the-ground in a strategically vital area of Jerusalem has been shelved thanks to efforts by several Zionist organizations.
By Yair Lapid
Last week, a few minutes after my stormy exchange with haredi members of Knesset, I went to what we in the Knesset call the "back cafeteria." It is not exactly a cafeteria but rather a lounge area behind the plenum where members of Knesset alone can enter.
If it is the sole solution to women's rights at the Kotel, an egalitarian section at the Kotel will ultimately make things harder for Orthodox feminists who are trying to assert their rights within a Halachic framework.
The suggestion is intriguing, self serving and frankly somewhat humorous.
It is always easiest to blame the rest of the world and not to make an accounting of your own ideology.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Rather than ask why Minister Baird met with Minister Livny in the eastern Jerusalem office, why not ask why Minister Livny agreed to meet there with Minister Baird?
Needed changes in Israel's decision making process have simply not kept up with the growing complexities and synergies of Israel's always-hostile external environment.
They can say all day long that they are not protesting Israel. The fact that they will be out there in the middle of Manhattan talking about 'gezeirot' says otherwise.
Choosing Life in Israel evinces what it means to be emotionally, spiritually, and viscerally drawn, as a Jew, to the siren song emitted by Israel.
By Batya Medad
Ben-Gurion would do anything to make sure that Menachem Begin's Herut Party would stay out of power.
Why throw years of friendly cooperation into the trashcan?
Unlike some of his biggest detractors, I believe that the President actually likes Israel and values the friendship of the Israeli people.
By Barry Rubin
The problem of this government is more likely to be one of personalities, marginal issues that get blown up in importance, and jockeying for financial benefits for different constituencies.
By Batya Medad
Benjamin Netanyahu made his bed when he put pragmatic secular politics over Jewish values.
By Batya Medad
We keep hearing these fantasies which claim that there's a safe and just way to divide up Judea and Samaria between Jews and Arabs, which is preposterous.
By Batya Medad
It's not that the various coalition partners don't trust Bibi, but that he doesn't really trust them.
Haredi leaders could not care less if Israel retains Judea and Samaria - as long as their Mosdos (religious institutions) get funded.
By Batya Medad
I can't imagine a tougher challenge for Lapid. It's so much easier to complain from the outside.
By Batya Medad
I must admit that I really don't care which parties are in Bibi's government coalition anymore.
A political tsunami is approaching, and the Jews in the land of Israel are fighting over total non-issues. If it weren’t so sad, it would be comical.
By Batya Medad
Bennett's pact with Yair Lapid, is not good for the country and is leading to fraternal hatred.
By Batya Medad
Like it or not, coalition or not, Netanyahu may continue as Prime Minister for quite a while.
By Meir Indor
This is Torah. This is its rightful place in all our lives, both private and public.
By Batya Medad
Now, the NRP is getting nervous. They should have looked more carefully before signing the Ketuba, marriage contract with Bennett.
The era of Godless leadership in the Knesset ended with Menachem Begin. One might even say it ended with the Six Day War.
By Batya Medad
Bennett shouldn't have trying to play chicken against a pro.
In an exclusive interview with the Jewish Press, newly elected MK Moshe Feiglin affirms he is still trying to revolutionize Israel.
When, against all odds, we managed to restore the Likud and the national camp to power in 1996, it turned out that the Right really didn't have an alternative to Oslo.
Gideon Sa'ar, a contender to replace Netanyahu as party chairman, may be taking recent allegations more seriously than initially believed.
The criticism focused on the fact that Livni will be given a leading role in negotiations with the Palestinians, by the Likud said the Prime Minister will lead the negotiating team.
"Despite the mudslinging campaign against us before the elections, we recommended Netanyahu to form the next government."
Do these rabbis really think that Naftali Bennett, an observant Jew, or Rabbi Dov Lipman have “risen in our generation to destroy the Jewish people”?
The institution of party primaries in Israel needs to be expanded not shrunk, so that the government will be under the supervision of the people from which it derives power and the moral authority to govern.
My proposal to solve the contentious issue of Israel’s universal draft.
By Batya Medad
Inflexible 'principles' are for the opposition only, not the coalition.
By Batya Medad
The timing of Obama's announcement, that he is davka now accepting the long-standing invitation to visit Israel is worse than rude.
By Meir Indor
In these days of candidates, spinsters, and strategists, it’s comforting to know that there are people of action, known only to those who must know, swimming against the current of self-interest.
Lapid lacks intellectual depth, is ignorant of historical facts, sees settlers as extremists to be battled, and wants to divide Jerusalem.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Rabbis of the religious Zionist community serve in the army; why shouldn’t Haredi Rabbis also be brave examples for their students?
A little insulting but shouldn't the Temple become a central element in the public discourse?
Conservative movements and parties cannibalize themselves.
"When positions opened, if there was a qualified woman for the job I was inclined to hire her."
By Tzvi Fishman
Don’t cast your vote for a party that condemns Torah values and honest and dedicated people who have led the way in the education of our youth and the settlement of Eretz Yisrael.
I come across Yair Michaeli standing amid the bustle of an Israeli shopping mall, a clipboard in his hand. He appears to be a serious-minded Israeli haredi. What is he doing in a place like this?
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Mordechai Taud to talk about conflict in Gaza, upcoming Israeli elections, and the situation in Syria.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Knesset insider Jeremy Man Saltan to talk about upcoming Israeli elections along with the current situation in the Knesset.
Nowhere else can you get this kind of in-depth radio analysis of the political situation in Israel - in English! Understand the crazy Israeli government coalition forming and dissolving in the blink of an eye. How Prime Minister Netanyahu manuevers among the political land mines. Hear the ins and outs of the IDF Draft legislation […]
Saltan: "A big reason why I started the 'Knesset Jeremy' blog was to help Anglos learn about the political process by giving them information in English on every bill and every MK’s speech. I hope this will lead to Anglos learning more about the Israeli political process and help them take an active part and integrate."
July 10, 2026 
