Ari Shavit

As part of a special series, Ari Shavit talks to Kobi Richter, who spent more than 20 years in the IAF, and feels compelled to speak out about Israel's dangerous game.

The opportunity that was missed this summer isn't going to come again any time soon.

Former head of IDF Planning Directorate Giora Eiland says that Israel faces impossible choice regarding Iran's nuclear program.

Prof. Yedidia Stern, a member of the state-sanctioned Plesner committee on Haredi service, says current wording of report did more to alienated Haredim than to integrate them into society.

Instead of establishing proper norms of government, we wallowed in criminal proceedings and media rhetoric. We are all responsible.

In a third interview of a new series, Ari Shavit talks to Dr. Uzi Arad, who says Israel has serious, experienced political leaders - yet they are wasting time.

Israel must bomb Iran and make peace with its neighbors – all at once, says Israeli political scientist Yehezkel Dror, in the second of a multi-part series.

A military operation against Iran may not slow down the nuclear project but accelerate it.

Moshe Ya'alon tells Ari Shavit he is preparing for war. He suggests you do the same.

In exclusive interview, Moshe Ya'alon shares his political aspirations and 'moral disappointment' with Barak.

Eliezer Rivlin picking up support as Yosef Shapiro's candidacy starts to falter.

Shaul Mofaz will redeem himself not through meaningless phrases but through meaningful acts.

Finally we have a government representing the Israeli majority, a government that no niche party can extort. Finally we have a government with a clear Zionist majority.

The Prime Minister's father, who died before dawn on Monday at the age of 102, loved the Jewish people, but had little faith in the Jews.

The former Shin Bet chief in his comments Friday once again proved that in the new Israel, the old Turkish model prevails.

In rare move, Israeli government is set to request that the High Court of Justice postpone the scheduled evacuation of Beit El's Ulpana neighborhood.

On the one hand, we cannot exclude the possibility that the senior Israeli officials briefing us are bluffing. On the other hand, what we journalists hear in closed rooms is staggering.

The first female president of the Supreme Court's professional life story is the story of the interface between justice and Israeli politics of the last generation.

Israel's main asset in human and security terms is the sense of mutual responsibility that its citizens and soldiers feel toward one another.

The mistakes of the past 30 months have created an abysmal gap between the Palestinians' expectations, the Israelis' needs and the international community's perceptions.

Obama busy with West Bank settlements and the 1967 borders, didn't put in the time and effort for a genuine Marshall Plan that could save the land of the Nile.

There is no choice but to suspect that the former chief of staff knew that the document was about to be aired on Channel 2, but did not bother telling his subordinate, whom the broadcast was about to crucify.

The prime minister must not succumb to seductive calls for a show of power in Gaza; Hamas wasn't behind Thursday's attacks, nor does it seek to increase tensions with Israel.

Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan is more concerned over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak's lack of leadership skills, than Iranian or Palestinian threats.

The petty and vicious personal relationship between the U.S. president and the Israeli prime minister has become toxic, and in Congress on Capitol Hill they bore poisonous fruit.