Uri Misgav

It hasn't taken long for the Israeli public to realize that the finance minister is not serious enough and untrustworthy.

You can’t lead a peace process and instill it in people's hearts if you don't know how to lead.

There's no question that the Israel Defense Forces' budget is overstuffed and could use a good trimming. But when it comes to its ability to ward off an Iranian attack, cutting corners appears not to be an option.

The state's report on Ben Zygier's suicide is chilling not just because it describes a searing family tragedy, but because it reveals the systematic violation of a young man's human rights and the great lengths the state has gone to in order to cover up its apparent misdoings.

The decision to keep the foreign minister's post empty and hold it in trust for Avigdor Lieberman is an allegory of his formidable political power and Israel's crumbling rule of law.

The week of national remembrance exists, among other reasons, to ensure that a leadership will never arise in Israel that will cut the defense budget.

Ben Zygier is dead and buried but the case of 'Detainee X' lives on. It’s high time for a serious and independent inquiry.

It is difficult to understand how Israelis can continue, year in and year out since 1967, to proudly celebrate Passover without being able to detect another form of slavery under their noses.

No one has stood up. Neither the president of Israel nor the prime minister. Neither the minister of education nor the minister of justice. Neither chairmen of political parties nor mayors.

When President Barack Obama visits Israel later this month he will be treated to Jerusalem's full-dress victim show, a modern Via Dolorosa. Can't we offer our closest ally more than war memorials, nuclear nightmares and the Holocaust?

Yesh Atid should be the more powerful party in its alliance with Habayit Hayehudi, but as usual, religious Zionists are bending their secular counterparts to their will.

Yuval Diskin currently operates in a dimension that is completely absent from Israeli politics and statesmanship, the philosophical dimension. A philosopher is an odd animal in the public sphere, who asks Why? and How? and Is it okay? and Could it be seen differently?

Yair Lapid faithfully represents a large and self-involved segment of the Israeli public. To borrow his own meme, he is what is most Israeli.

Netanyahu was ripe for defeat this time around, if only the opposition could have gotten its act together.

To ask for the people's confidence without talking to them about anything important is pure insolence.

For King Bibi, this is not an election. It is an attempt to topple him.

This leftist emigration talk is so whiny and self-indulgent, so slothful, defeatist and complacent. Even if it is mainly theoretical, such talk is extremely enervating. This wouldn't happen to the right.

The Labor Party is for the first time going to elections without any pretension of real leadership, because it is impossible to ask for the seat of power in Israel without addressing security and foreign affairs.

The Palestinians, both east and west of the Green Line, are transparent. In effect, the Green Line itself is now transparent.

How is it possible to explain the sweeping public support given to Operation Pillar of Defense since its inception?

If the polls that persistently predict 65 seats for the right-wing/religious bloc are correct, this will be the chance of a generation. We must therefore start working now so as not to miss it when the moment of truth arrives.

The people demanded 'social justice' but they got a paralyzed system whose component parts do not dare disagree with basic conventions. No one talks about peace or completely shaking up the Israeli worldview.

Israel is no longer a democracy, but rather a parody of a democracy.

This week the world is rapturously celebrating golden anniversary of The Beatles.

In actual fact, what is seen from the screen in Israel is total collapse, both of the regulation with all its aims and of the franchisees that are going bankrupt, as well as of public broadcasting, which is infected with politicization and corruption.