Israel Harel
Israel Harel is a regular columnist for Haaretz. He is the founder of the Institute for Religious Zionism at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, which he headed until 1995.
Harel began working as a journalist in the 1960s, as a young contributor to the Eretz Yisrael Movement's newspaper, This is The Land.
He went on to serve as managing editor of the Hayom daily and in 1972 became the assistant editor for the weekend edition of Ma'ariv, at the time the most widely read newspaper in Israel. In addition to that position, Harel also worked as an investigative reporter on Israeli corruption.
In 1991, Harel was asked by Haaretz to contribute an occasional column and to write as a guest journalist. When Chanoch Marmori took over as editor-in-chief, Harel's column became weekly, and it has appeared every Thursday since.
Opinion Netanyahu vs. Nasrallah
After the next display of courage by Hezbollah, or Hamas in the south, the IDF must 'lethally' liquidate both these organizations’ offensive capabilities
Opinion Netanyahu, Father of the Temple Mount Mosques
Recent clashes in Jerusalem's Old City prove that under Netanyahu’s rule, Israelis are the ones to cave in – rather than Palestinians
Opinion The IDF's Much-needed Revolution of Consciousness
The bloody doctrine of 'containment' must give way to decisive victory, which will cause the enemy to lay down its arms. Only then can peace be imposed upon it
Opinion Yes, Poles Imbibed anti-Semitism With Their Mothers’ Milk
A vast majority of Poles and others remain haters of the Jewish people, but some Israeli politicians, diplomats and Holocaust researchers are foolishly saying they’re shocked by this ‘generalization’
Opinion The Hypocrisy of the University Cartel
The fuel that is igniting the campaign against Ariel University is purely political and ideological
Opinion From a Moderate to a Radical religious-Zionist Party
Habayit Hayehudi has become more extremist, and moderate voices are finding homes elsewhere
Opinion The Sorry Fate of Israel’s Historical Parties
Labor is spent, while Habayit Hayehudi is functioning as a sectoral party, with rabbis calling the shots
Opinion The High Court of Justice Against the Israeli People
In questioning the nation-state law, even the 'conservative' justices are causing grave damage to the soul of the nation that returned to Zion with so much suffering