Ari Shavit is a senior correspondent at Haaretz Newspaper and a member of its editorial board.
Twenty months after he disappeared from the public eye and left Haaretz, journalist Ari Shavit met with Dr. Orit Kamir, the lawyer and legal scholar who drafted the Israeli law against sexual harassment, for a frank and fraught conversation about the affair in which American Jewish journalist Danielle Berrin claimed he harassed her, the lessons he learned and his journey of Tikkun
Eight whole years of a peace-seeking president, one who feels the Palestinians’ pain and worries about Israelis’ future, didn’t produce real achievement. How can Obama leave behind such a resounding failure?
The question that Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora should ask themselves today is where they stand in the face of the darkness.
After defeating the anti-Semites, the Nazis, the Arabs and the Palestinians — we are losing to the Israelis.
Two speeches by the U.S. president were more precise, on-point and moving than anything said by any center-left Israeli leader of the past generation.
Unlike other Jews who succeeded him in power, Peres always knew that to be a Jew also meant to be universal and moral; to be on the correct, enlightened side of history.
The current strategic reality is the best Israel has ever experienced, but there are questions marks on the horizon - particularly as regards the Palestinians - that need to be answered.
Unless Israel makes a U-turn, it will be too late to divide the land. There's a third way that could save it: It's a long, gradual process of dividing the land, one that isn’t based on comprehensive agreements but on partial understandings, and of building the nation.
In a state that is still a democracy, the only way to fight is to communicate with its people. Not to loathe its people or patronize them, but to respect them, listen to them and talk to them. Persuade them.
With the left's approach so unilateral, ahistoric and disconnected from reality, it will never be possible to effect political change in Israel.
On June 11, 2009, I published a piece here in which I suggested a formula: A demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the Jewish State of Israel. Three days later it was the thrust of Netanyahu’s Bar-Ilan speech.
According to the prime minister, if we only broke free of the media and the ideological distortion, we’d see that everything in Israel is actually terrific.
The elite that Herzog comes from is characterized by a poverty of ideas, inaction and weakness of spirit.
Only by turning the center-left into the new blue-white and denouncing the right as anti-nationalist will it be possible to generate a major upheaval.
In America, Israel, Britain and throughout Europe, a political-economic agenda that has ceased to function is causing an outbreak of forces that undermine the social order.
After the Syrian army’s collapse, the Iraqi army’s evaporation and the Egyptian army’s turning into a friend, Hezbollah is today the sole conventional factor that poses a significant threat to Israel.
The masses in Pittsburgh, Birmingham, Marseilles and Beit Shemesh feel helpless, and this is turning into rage, and the rage is leading to the adoption of vile opinions and irrational political positions.
Why does a statesman who’s doing so well in the Middle East repeatedly fail in the North Atlantic region?
The moderate left and right must work together, seek peace and stop bashing Benjamin Netanyahu, however paltry his emotional intelligence.
In navigating his ship of state, the U.S. president has made many historic achievements. The only international issue he has utterly failed on is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ya'alon can exorcise the nationalist, populist obsession that has taken over the right. He can return Israel to sanity.
The constantly rising temperature around us isn't one of a threatening strategic environment, but of an environment of contaminated values.
Next year, Israel will mark landmark anniversaries of some of its greatest political, diplomatic and military milestones. It's time for the reasonable majority to reject the people and forces bringing calamity upon us.
Was there really a willingness to begin talks with the Palestinians and Arab League? Now we get a government that can easily commit a spectacular national suicide.
The left must recognize the brutal reality of the wider region, while the center must stop the cynicism and propose an exciting third way to end the occupation.
The next election will be a choice between the right wing and security – between the Greater Land of Israel of blood, fire and smoke and a strong, sovereign Israeli state.
The new strategic danger Ya’alon sees is the danger from within. The populistic right-wing’s anarchistic attack on the state, the army and state institutions has become the central threat to Israeli sovereignty.
At the end of 50 years, it will be clear what our revealed choice has been: We prefer the Land of Israel over the values of Israel.
The polar opposite responses between the Bus 300 and Hebron shooting cases cast a revealing and cruel light on the changes we’ve undergone in the past few decades.
In countless countries and during innumerable eras, public figures like Trump fomented angry popular uprisings that sooner or later led to persecution of the Jews.