No Basis for Criminal Probe Against Breaking the Silence, Attorney General Says
Right-wing organization Ad Kan filed a complaint against the anti-occupation group on suspicion of collecting classified information
Israel social protest
Analysis Prices in Israel Rising? Think Again. They've Barely Changed While Wages Have Soared
The shock of increased electricity and water rates belies the overall trends in Israel
Opinion It’s Not the Prices, It’s the Politics
A protest that is focused on the 'cost of living' is not simply apolitical. It collaborates with a cruel policy of inequality that damages social fortitude
Opinion Yair Lapid, Israel’s Serial Protest Thief
The leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, the prince of kitsch, had the gall to don a yellow vest as if he were a struggling Frenchman battling unfair taxes
Opinion The Photo That Encapsulates the Horror of Live Animal Transport to Israel
A rare moment in which two calves cling to each other in a world that’s only waiting for the moment in which it’s profitable to end their lives – this moment reminds us that soon it will end abruptly
Israeli Public Housing Tenants Charged Excessive Municipal Tax
City taxes hiked up to pay for urban renewal projects after Interior Ministry fails to implement discounts passed by lawmakers two years ago
Analysis Israel’s LGBT Protest Is the Start of Nothing
The rage over denying gay couples the right to surrogacy won't be sustained: The economy is doing too well for people to rock the boat
Was the 2011 Social Protest Movement Too Successful?
Social activists devoted to solving the housing crisis that sparked the 2011 movement have decided to change direction- they now want to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Thousands of Israelis Protest Corruption, Chant Against Netanyahu's Son Over Stripper Scandal
'Marches of shame' against corruption have been going on for weeks; Saturday night's rally targets Yair Netanyahu after leaked audio revealed he attended strip clubs
Israelis Are Taking to the Streets to Protest Netanyahu. But What Would It Take for 'Bibi to Go Home'?
Six years ago, Israelis demanded social justice in their hundreds of thousands. The numbers now protesting government corruption are smaller, but experts say perseverance is the key to their potential success
Editorial In Israel, Punishing in Order to Silence
The State Prosecution requested to jail an activist for his Facebook posts. Now, every citizen will know the price of criticizing the establishment
Tens of Thousands of Israelis Protest Against Netanyahu in Second March of Shame
The protest march targeting corruption in the government took place as the PM headed to Europe for a series of key meetings
Opinion Against the Occupation? You’re Bitter
Opponents of the Netanyahu regime in Israel are cast as miserable losers who must be removed before they infect the country with their feebleness
Opinion Israeli Left Escapes to Petah Tikva
The demonstrations in that city against Netanyahu's corruption are the left’s consolation prize, an escape route, a city of refuge. And the left is demonstrating on the periphery, about peripheral things.
Protesters Are Rising Up Against Netanyahu - and Testing the Limits of Israel's Democracy
For 39 weeks, demonstrators have gathered near the home of the attorney general to protest his foot-dragging in corruption cases against Netanyahu. They say police activities, including the arrest of two organizers, have guaranteed a bumper crowd for Saturday's 40th protest
Opinion Israel's Right Clings to Conspiracies Again
Israeli citizens, not the New Israel Fund, are rallying for the PM’s indictment, while police and prosecutors, not the media, are leading the criminal investigations against him
Opinion So What if They’re Not the Finance Minister’s Mother?
Hiring more nursing home inspectors, as the government has promised, is far from the minimum of steps needed to ensure that citizens of all ages in need of public care are treated with dignity.
Analysis If You Really Care, Take to the Streets – Because It Works
Harvard researchers just released some revelatory findings about the power of protest. But does that also apply to a country without a history of mass protest like Israel?
Opinion Religious Zionism Is the Strongest, Most Deluded Elite in Israel
The movement used to balance its backing of the settlement enterprise with socioeconomic concerns, but those days have long gone.
Citing Les Miserables, Israeli Judge Orders Release of Cookie-stealing Homeless Man
Judge cites the novel's 'indictment of society's attitude toward the weak' and frees the man in his 20's, who was arrested after tasking shelter in a kindergarten classroom.
Opinion How to Oppose Trump: A Guide for American Progressives, From Your Israeli and Palestinian Peers
Israeli and Palestinian rights activists have weathered many years of repeated and well-coordinated attacks on democratic and liberal values. But we're still here. And we have hard-won lessons to offer.
Moshe Wertheim, ex-Mossad Agent Who Built Fortune With Coca Cola, Dies at Age 86
Israeli tycoon left a Mossad career for business, won the bottling franchise in Israel in 1967 and built a business empire with the profits.
Israel Is Plunging Even Further Right. Time to Move. Left.
For Netanyahu and Lieberman, the only Israeli voters who matter at all, are the pro-Kahane, pro-incitement online thugs of the farthest right.
I Pitched a Tent in the Center of Tel Aviv. This Is What Happened
Hagai Amit made a bid to reignite the spirit of the social protest. The masses prefer their smartphones.
Israel’s Generation of Tent-dwellers Is Cringing With Shame
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ignored the social protest’s demands. We face an ongoing housing crisis, a collapse of social services and a soaring cost of living.
The Israeli People Demanded Social Justice in 2011. What Did They Get?
Five years on from the social protest movement of 2011, the question is whether it succeeded or failed. To answer that, we must go back to the protest’s initial goals.
Israel's Social Protest Led Government Business to Lay Low, Slashing Ads
Businesses reduced ad spending by 13% after cost-of-living demonstrations swept Israel in 2011.
Five Years After Israel's Social-justice Protests, Prices Are Back Up
Rallies had impact only in the year after, a survey by TheMarker shows/
Israel’s Embattled Food Industry Fires Back
Top executives defend themselves against price gouging, unhealthy products and a hostile media and government.
Gilad Shalit Prisoner Swap Was Partly a Response to 2011 Social Protests, Ex-cabinet Secretary Says
Zvi Hauser tells Channel 10 that the agreement that freed Palestinian prisoners in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit 'served as a cold bucket of water' on the social justice protests of the prior summer.