Under an extreme right-wing government whose lust for 'national purity' has made it lose its moral compass, the Interior Ministry is failing to meet its commitment and refusing to decide on the asylum requests
A bill allowing internal exile in the West Bank doesn’t seem designed to fight Palestinian terror but rather to score points in right-wingers’ battle for votes
The Australians recognize what is self-evident about West Jerusalem, but at the same time they also see as self-evident that East Jerusalem is slated to be the capital of Palestine
Settlement has become an act of punishment and revenge, creating a frightening equation in which the murder of Israelis is not terrorism but rather a building stone for the settlements
The opposition’s challenge will be to present a vision of equality and openness in the face of the right’s racism and exclusion, as a foundation for Jewish-Arab cooperation that will lead to a change of government
For an army that purports itself as the most moral in the world, a concerted investigation and the indictment of the soldiers on severe charges is the only way to head off similar incidents in the future
Even if his views are unpalatable to Israeli Jews, the head of the Hadash party in the city council was elected democratically
Last week the chairman of the national lottery Mifal Hapayis, Avigdor Yitzhaki, volunteered to act as a censor, asking the mayor of the Arab town of Kabul to cancel the play “Palestine, Year Zero” by Einat Weizman
Interior MInister Arye Dery, a convicted criminal and serial suspect, wants to prevent the appointment of an Arab as the city's deputy mayor because of his political views
New legislation would increase the ability of well-off, small communities to screen out Arabs, Mizrahim, the ultra-Orthodox, the secular, single parents, LGBT people, people with disabilities and any other unwanted group
The government and attorney general's behavior in the botched choice of a new police chief proves just how badly the committee is needed
'I will not give recognition to an institution that supports terror,' said Labor and Social Services Minister Haim Katz, as he ordered the certification of hundreds of social workers from an East Jerusalem university frozen
Israel’s new anti-pornography legislation severely undermines the values of privacy and freedom of expression
Women and men across Israel strike in protest of government’s ignoring of femicide. The state must not perpetuate institutional inequality bearing fatal consequences
The prime minister’s continued tenure, in the wake of the police’s latest recommendation that he be charged with bribery, is damaging to the rule of law, the country and Israeli society.
With the current record in corruption, the appointment Moshe Edri would further illustrate the lack of judgment on the part of Israeli cabinet ministers
Barak received $2.3 million from a philanthropic foundation in the U.S. headed by retailing magnate Leslie Wexner. The foundation reported it had paid Barak for 'research,' but did not spend similar sums on other studies and researchers
Police are asking for the authority to order detainees to strip for a 'visual search' of their naked bodies to prevent the smuggling of objects into lockups, even in the absence of a reasonable suspicion. This bad bill should be struck from the legislative agenda
The asylum seekers and violence against women are among the issues most neglected by the Netanyahu government. The government must begin demonstrating loyalty to society’s most vulnerable groups by budgeting existing committees
No city has the right to close a park to Arabs, as Afula in the north has done, but such racist incitement has become typical in the country under Benjamin Netanyahu