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The prime minister mistakenly believed he had received a personal mandate to govern, but he can't form a coalition
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Independent Public Education
A new initiative by educators seeking to give Israel’s “regular” public schools the same standing as the state religious schools and to guarantee their pedagogical autonomy, inc...
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Any struggle that doesn't include the entire Israeli Arab community is destined to fail, they say
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