Nothing better illustrates Israel’s situation on the eve of its 73rd Independence Day than the decision to withhold the Israel Prize for mathematics and computer science from Prof. Oded Goldreich until the state has examined his political opinions and determined to what extent he is really a leftist. Israel boasts of being a high-tech power, of being an international leader in vaccinating its people against the coronavirus and of continuing the Zionist ethos of making the desert bloom. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ministers of his court are leading Israel, in the same breath,