Merav Michaeli

We need to dismantle the giant conglomerates altogether and go back to small and medium-sized companies that will make diversity possible, that will make human dignity and freedom possible, and that will make competition possible.

In a Q&A, Mohammed Bakri tells how his 2003 documentary, and his current portrayal of a woman onstage test him emotionally.

Haaretz sits down with Time Magazine editor Jim Frederick to discuss Egypt and Libya, Occupy Wall St. and the Tea Party, and whether this past year's revolutions will bring a happy ending.

British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, says sanctions can stop Iran's nuclear program.

U.S. voters had a choice in 2008, between a feminist with white privilege and a man of black heritage; Israel's Labor Party members now have a similar choice, between Shelly Yachimovich and Amir Peretz.

Livnat on why she asked the Israel Film Council's censorship board to hold off on a decision to restrict the film "Hashoter" ("The Policeman") to viewers 18 and above.

Dr. Gabi Zohar is a clinical social worker at the center, an expert on cults and author of a book on the subject, 'Happiness Knows No Bounds.'

Lt. Col. ‏(res.‏) Zeev Lehrer caused a storm this week by calling to curtail religiosity in IDF.

Labor MK Amir Peretz returns from a trip to London he made despite being warned that an arrest warrant had been issued for him.

This week opposition leader Tzipi Livni attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his initial failure to respond to right-wing protests over the arrest of Rabbi Dov Lior, who was held for refusing to appear for questioning about his endorsement of a book that justifies killing non-Jews.

'We in Israel have created many beautiful things, but one of the most successful systems, in the face of which most of the world stands dumbfounded, is the Israeli judicial system.'

Slavin explains why shorter summer vacations are in the students' best interests.

Salim Toama, Hapoel Tel Aviv's beloved hero and winning goal scorer in Wednesday's State Cup final, says when he was abroad he missed Israel, racism and all

Ya'ara Winkler, along with Yoel Shalit, recently burst onto the podium during the torch-lighting ceremony on Mount Herzl carrying a sign reading 'Gilad is still alive.'

Daniel Barenboim, one of the world’s leading pianists and conductors, made an appearance this week for the first time in the Gaza Strip, arriving via the Rafah crossing.

Descendants of Jewish Moroccans and other North Africans who lived under the Vichy regime are eligible for reparations as victims of the Nazis, it was announced yesterday.

This year, the Holon mayor was chosen by British magazine Monocle as one of the 10 best mayors in the world.

MK Alex Miller sponsored the 'Nakba Law,' prohibiting state funds from being used to commemorate the Nakba, a Palestinian term for Israel's establishment.

'I know that Bibi has talked for many years about public relations as a solution to all of Israel's problems, and perhaps he really believes that speaking in fluent English on foreign television stations creates change - but it doesn't.'

Men constitute most of the people in charge, and the way they see women determines what it is that women can even be.

Ronen and his co-host, veteran journalist Dan Margalit, are the authors of "The Pit," the newly released book that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the power struggle between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi.

To change this system it is not enough to have specific, limited agreements: What is needed instead is political will.

The issue that should have sparked panic in last week's poll on religion is the total consensus among Israeli Jews that the 'guiding principle' for the country is 'to remember the Holocaust.'

Israel's leaders are meticulous in decimating the chance of solidarity among us. Backed up by nationalist forces on the one side and economic forces on the other, they are taking 'divide and conquer' to the next level.

When the regime is not restricted, when equality pertains only to those whom the court likes, then the 'infiltrators' who can be held for three years without trial can easily be those who infiltrated a public park to protest and to sleep in.

Every one of us, women and men, must begin to think about the upcoming elections, whenever they may be, and get used to the idea that there is an alternative.

The Israeli government doesn't want peace; there's nothing new in that: It has been the proven way since the establishment of the state. But the public, for its part, does want peace.

Why and wherefore is this 'exclusion of women' festival is taking place at the moment. Why right now? What has changed?

Along with the debate raging about the exclusion of women from the public sphere, a battle is being waged against women to eliminate a legal presumption on the custody of young children in divorce cases.

When we look at the bigger picture we see a comprehensive program that serves Netanyahu and his ideology and is orchestrated by him.

Rape has always been a crime on the statute books, but historically it has been considered damage of another man's property, of his daughter, of his sister, of his wife. Even now, the rape of a daughter is 'taking her without permission.'

The U.S. has a tradition of civil protests that lead to significant changes: women's suffrage, equal rights for blacks, pulling out of Vietnam. There is reason to fear a social protest that is rapidly catching on. In Israel there has yet to be a social protest that led to a policy change.

The savage attack of the extreme, self-victimizing right is misleading the whole system, causing it to think that maybe it really does represent the majority, and apologize for not adhering to its ideology.

The secular media's volunteering to call the Tzohar marriages 'alternative' and to lead the battle for these marriages is the whole story in a nutshell.

Minimum wages promote minimal life. Neither men nor women need to live that sort of life.

The comment 'It's inconceivable that every computer person and every cleaning and maintenance worker would turn into a state employee,' reflects the assumption of inequality between people and workers.

It turns out that under certain conditions, circumstances whose precise character cannot be known, Netanyahu is capable of acting in complete variance with his principles and the things he believes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's UN speech on Friday was not a good one; it was a destructive speech.

It's time to say it out loud: Advertising in general presents women as objects and as sex objects, and humiliates and abuses them regularly.

Women began this protest, but very quickly, things changed - as they always do, and certainly with much 'success': The women 'sank' to the bottom, to behind the scenes, to doing the dirty work.

The male-dominated regime has found a way of bypassing values through the economic method, thus creating serious inequality followed by a lack of freedom. Nowadays Westerners lack genuine freedom of choice in most areas of life, while democracy is weakening and dwindling.

The smothering trap that successive Israeli governments have put us in for the past 40 years no longer allows us to breathe.

A generation that can see a way of life, not just life itself, as a reason to take to the streets is a generation that can think peace and not war.

A government is the body that is elected by us to work for us, to take care of the welfare of all of us, and we are those who pay their salaries, not the other way around.

The cumulative failures of past demonstrations weakened the public and the society to the point of impotence. This time it is necessary to take to the streets every Saturday evening, until the government answers all the unwritten demands of the public.

Doctors are now bearing the responsibility not only for the health system, but also for all workers who want to have a future here. All eyes are now on them.