Anshel Pfeffer

The state comptroller was quite right to highlight the difficulties faced by immigrants from Ethiopia in his latest report, but it should have broadened its scope to include the poverty trap affecting more than two million Israeli Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Not only has Netanyahu failed at advancing Israel’s middle class, his entire political career has been built on exacerbating the country’s social divides.

There is no reason why Israel can't admit publicly that that the IDF uses drones for strike missions in Gaza. Hiding unmanned warfare from the public view, in stark contrast to the recent U.S. Senate hearings, only shuts down a long-overdue debate on Israel's drone policy.

The face of the IDF is the face of changing Israeli society, its commanders choosing to emulate extremist rabbis.

In the absence of a clear diplomatic objective, the IDF's West Bank division is not so dissimilar from the Scotland Yard headquarters that commands London's Metropolitan Police.

Murdoch made politicians tremble and led them to approve additional acquisitions and licenses even when it was clear they would only give him more power to use against them.

The thousands of refugees who fled Syria in the past week are providing Erdogan with an opportunity to determine the fate of Syria.

Cyber attacks have caused major malfunctions in Estonia, Ukraine, Georgia and Iran. Despite world-class computer security systems, there is no guarantee that Israel won't be targeted as well.

If the army in Israel is above the law, then all of us should be ashamed to show our faces in the world. But if the state demands of its army officers that they obey the law then it should supply the required legal protection both at home and abroad.

Despite the Iron Dome festival of the past few days, the Defense Ministry forced the IDF and the IAF to accept the system to which they had no intention of devoting resources. The time has come for civilians to intervene once more.

People are scaring us with talk of an Isalmist takeover of our big neighbor. But doesn't Egypt deserve democracy too?

That so many Israeli rabbis are public employees should have led to some kind of oversight. In fact, the opposite is the case.

From the Shayetet 13 naval commandos to his post as GOC Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant has made quite a lot of friends.

A chance remark at Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings offers lessons for both Israelis and Diaspora Jews

Why do the Haredim have their own school system? Because the state lets them get away with it.

The way the Holocaust is taught in Israeli schools does not allow our youth to understand its wider significance.

An American divorce spat poses some fundamental questions about parental influence over a child's religion.

Hesder students and their rabbis are not capable of looking around them and understanding how they are perceived by many others.

It is hard to find anyone in Mexico who believes the government's claim that the flu first appeared in early April.

Make no mistake: Judaism according to Lieberman is a nationalist and chauvinist religion, a tool in the service of the state and the strongman who heads it.

France is dissatisfied, to say the least, that a tiny, pro-American country like the Czech Republic is now assuming the stature it boasted until a week ago.

'If the media in Israel want to criticize the Indian operation, they should quote their Indian colleagues rather than interview all sorts of self-styled Israeli experts,' said an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi.

The British government has recently instructed importers to be more meticulous about checking products that come from Israel, in case they were produced in the territories.

Last week, the Jewish Agency signed its own death certificate.