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The lesson the far-right Chrysi Avgi party draws from World War II is a bit harsher than one most Greeks are comfortable with.

French television anchors were hard pressed to comply with the law that required they hold off on announcing the election results before 8 P.M.

Charities become pipeline funneling public money to the poor, as the social welfare net continues to get depleted.

When the discussion is motivated by shallow political 'ratings,' the possibility of having an argument, based on the actual merits or shortcomings of the decision, has become impossible.

Strike does well by some subcontracted workers but has also whitewashed the practice of using such workers in the first place.

Division into 'generations' is an evil born in industry that seeped into other areas of the labor market, both the private sector and the public one.

Treasury paints workers as the enemies of progress, because they refuse to accept that one of the tender winner's conditions is that its own workers maintain the new rail cars.

The young people who composed the protesters' list of demands understand economic and social policy, and social action; they champion demand-side economics, the basis of the welfare state.

This might be the time for the former Shas leader to strike, and launch his vision of a social-issues movement that speaks for the silent Israeli majority.

The protesters don't speak in political terms, but they are highly political and they know what they're doing.

Benjamin Netanyahu has exhorted his ministers to 'be Kahlons,' and now he needs his party colleague more than ever. But too much Moshe Kahlon-ness could finish him.

Something is suddenly happening; even if it remains unclear what the 'stroller protest' is, there is no doubt that it is something real.

Without a political leadership to channel energy to action the protest might stay in the tents, exposed to any populist governmental wind that may carry it off and appropriate it.

Greece's minister of culture and tourism Pavlos Geroulanos on the Gaza flotilla, the Greek economy and relations between Israel and Greece.

At issue is not about the settlements; the real issue is completely eradicating open political debate.

Isaac Herzog can be believed. Perhaps he really didn't make such derogatory comments regarding Amir Peretz.

The moment the former president began screaming at the judges that they wronged him, he disgraced himself and the court.

The EU may be turning cold shoulder to Israel these days, but Cyprus is drawing closer. An interview with President Dimitris Christofias due in Israel on Sunday.

Hebrew University paid about NIS 38,000 to a student who complained that a professor in the sociology department had harassed her.

When a gifted ultra-Orthodox child was tested by secular experts, they failed to see that when he said an onion was a fruit he was actually right.

Supporters of the bill to ban boycotts of Israel fails to achieve a resounding victory.

The memorial volume for the fallen of the 2006 Lebanon war reveals mourning families who no longer form a seemingly united collective, but rather are alone in their grief, anger and frustration

Papandreou lands in Israel after short stop in Cyprus, dismisses suggestion, raised by one of his hosts, that his visit was directly related to the Israeli-Turkish crisis.

We need to understand what it means in a country where welfare spending has been constantly shrinking since 1996, or being transferred from the state to nonprofit organizations.

Nimr Murkus, who believed the struggle for human rights could be common ground for true brotherhood between Jews and Arabs, was laid to rest last week.

This is the message of the elections: that the desire for a better life is finally out in the open, rolling about in the streets like a tiny spark of hope.

In her great effort to 'unify,' Labor's chairwoman is shattering the political camp she leads and highlighting it as an object of derision.

The Israeli public should recognize not just the benefits of the Iron Dome, but also the political, non-military worldview that gave rise to it.

Incitement against the Africans, which Netanyahu only weakly criticized, is another aspect of the crushing of the state, the law and the definition of citizenship.

How can Israel deprive Haredi politicians of their kingmaker role and establish trust between the state and its citizens?

The echoes of the Indignatos' protests can be heard all over Europe.

Two groups are gradually developing in Israel: One speaks out only about democracy and bravely defends its private croissant. The other speaks out only about Judaism and fights like a lion for the right to shut women up, annul conversions, make the lives of gay people miserable and monitor the modesty of kindergarten girls.

The mobilization of 3,000 motorcyclists who registered as Likud members to lower insurance fees has created a new political phenomenon in Israel.

The time has come for the Knesset expand its narrow, inhumane definition of a dignified existence, and thereby restrain the government's irresponsibility.

Liberal Jews in the U.S. are doubly fearful - of the messianic insanity now spreading in American politics, of its Israeli version and, most of all, of the link between the two.

She was a human being and an artist. Even Israelis may be permitted to mourn her, remember her and cling to her wonderful music.

The government is now working on fear-mongering and warmongering, turning existential despair into panic, and panic into a basis for bonding.

Until now the process of abandoning the educational system to extremist political groups has proceeded with relative caution. Now the door is wide open for them - thanks to Breaking the Silence.

Instead of focusing on his own agenda, Lapid defines himself by attaching a demonic image to his opponent; instead of proposing his own social economic alternative, he chooses to market to the satiated classes a pledge to continue the neo-liberal frenzy that benefits them so greatly.

For all of his adult life economist Shlomo Maoz was - and will probably continue to be - one of the leading exponents of the system that led to his dismissal.

The problem is that Netanyahu, the only one with the automatic support of Israel's social and geographic periphery, is also the only one causing that periphery real damage through his efforts to cater to the center.

Rabbis on the nationalist right are becoming more extreme to prove that they are not 'religious lite,' and their Haredi colleagues are afraid to appear lenient.

Netanyahu's choice of an extreme-right, religious-Haredi coalition is one reason for the current unrest, strengthening the hand of the Haredi religious-Zionist rabbis brings the current whirlwind.

The twists and turns that have taken place around the sections of the Trajtenberg Report dealing with transportation have led to the same dead end that the planning of public transportation has always arrived at.

Israel's social reality in 2011 is a battle between two unequal forces: the feminist-egalitarian worldview and the radical conservative worldview. The Katsav case epitomized the nexus of this battle's escalation.

It turns out that the welfare state and increasing equality are not vague concepts, nor, wonder of wonders, are they enemies of growth.

Just like Islam in Tunis the new Judaism in Jerusalem is proposing, in enlightened and modern language, a complete and perfect religious-political revolution.

In the courts, in the knesset, and in the media, society