Gideon Levy

Mohammed Amla, 29, was savagely attacked by an IDF dog as he tried to sneak across the border to his place of work in Tel Aviv.

After he lost his son to an army bullet, Ahmed Amarin sought solace in his work in Betar Ilit. Now that has also been taken away from him.

Four months after their son was killed by the IDF, the Awad family awoke this week to find their home being stormed by soldiers and another son being dragged away.

Dear thug who attacked me, do you really think an Israel with no remnant of the peace camp, no High Court of Justice, no human rights groups, no Haaretz, no ‘Israel haters,’ no ‘Arab lovers’ and even no yours truly will be a better country?

The West Bank settlement of Homesh was evacuated in 2005, but when its Palestinian landowners visited this week, they discovered hilltop youth living there.

Unknown individuals - probably settlers from the nearby settlement - have started working land that belongs to Azmout, a Palestinian village near Nablus. A protest has been launched.

A conversation with one of the relatively few Syrian residents of the Israeli Golan who is actively supporting the rebels who are fighting Assad's regime.

Rather than protecting the IDF, the new law will cement its image. An army that needs laws to prevent criticism of it is an army with a problem.

Until last week's 'price tag' incident, villagers in Akbara had not felt the effect of rising racism in neighboring Safed. But vandalism and graffiti saying 'don't touch our girls' was a stinging reminder Israel in 2013.

It's nearly two decades since the country held its first post-apartheid national election. Inequality and racism persist, but still, the country is an amazing success story.

Three young Palestinians decided to throw a fire bomb at an IDF guard tower in response to the death of a Palestinian prisoner. One was killed, one wounded and one arrested.

In a Bedouin community in the Negev, Hussein a-Sariya is mourning the loss of his three sons who drowned in the Mediterranean last week.

There have been crueler military actions, more wicked army operations, but there was never anything quite like the IDF’S Operation Cast Lead.

27 Palestinian children never made it to school this week; IDF troops lay in ambush for them on the streets of Hebron.

In the Al-Fawar refugee camp near Hebron, the hope shared over a decade ago by a few has disappeared, without a trace.

'Suddenly,' Jo Berry says, 'I began to see the human face. The image of the terrorist faded and was replaced by the image of a man.'

Two Palestinian boys remain a stone's throw from death, almost a week after being shot at the protest demonstration commemorating the funeral of Arafat Jaradat.

Attorney Sabbagh explains that a suspect coming into the Shin Bet interrogation rooms is like someone who comes to the doctor with a broken pinky and is immediately given a comprehensive examination of his entire body.

The struggle to save Lutfia, an 84 year-old Palestinian refugee, is being conducted by her brother Abed Abdi, a respected Palestinian artist who resides in Haifa.

Bassam Tamimi returned to the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh this week after completing his ninth sentence in an Israeli jail. The Palestinian activist explains why he now believes in one state for all.

The residents of Burin and neighboring villages set up a camp to protest frequent settler attacks. The IDF quickly arrived to 'educate' them.

Karam Amarin saw his cousin Salah fall suddenly and didn't hear the IDF's bullet whistle as it hit his head, near the Azza refugee camp in the West Bank.

After the semester's final exam, Samir Awad and his friends from Budrus went down to the separation fence, where teenagers often provoke soldiers to see how they respond. It ended with live bullets in his back.

Israel made a decisive statement regarding what it wants: it wants only to be left alone, a quiet, good life, peaceful and bourgeois, and to hell with all those pesky nagging issues; Lapid epitomizes this attitude.

Where is hatred when you need it? Where is the fervor and the fire − or at least a little smoke? There was none of that in this election campaign, anywhere.