After Celebrating the Heroes….What Then?
Good Samaritans, heroes in fact, are in the news for about a week. After the celebrations of their heroism die down, they and their families are forgotten. Journalist Liat Ron of Radio Tsafon kept...
Category: Keeping Up With Our MKs
We elect a party whose platform seems to most closely fit with our vision of what needs to be done to ensure that Israel develops as a healthy and ethical state. The Members of Knesset (MKs) are those who propel this boat and the Cabinet is supposed to be the rudder. Are they fulfilling their promise? In order to judge, we need to know what they are doing. I will, periodically, check in with them and see what they are doing within the Knesset plenum and in committees and report back here what I find.
Only in Israel: Human Rights Activists Against Human Rights
I wonder if it is only in Israel or concerning Israel that we find human rights activists fighting human rights. And our government does not seem to know how to deal with it. In...
Ofir Katz and the Yazbak Law: Will This Help?
Many Israelis wonder how it is possible that elected officials who support acts of terror against the very nation in whose legislature they sit were allowed to run in the first place. The legitimacy...
Did This Happen Because Arabic was Demoted?
In which case, the Arab parliamentarians in Israel may either jump for joy or sigh in relief. Or is it because anti-Zionist Arabs running for public office are treated differently by Israel’s Supreme Court...
Defence-Minister-for- not-much-longer, Naftali Bennett, Takes the Bull by the Horns
Defence Minister Bennett has strong ideas. And he has started openly talking his mind directly to the public. By doing this, he may prevent the civil unrest that is seething right now like a...
OK Litzman. Dayenu!
As if it was not enough that Health Minister Yaakov Litzman allegedly obstructed justice by influencing the psychiatric reports offered to the courts considering the extradition of Malka Leifer. The former school principle is...
Ahmad Tibi Says He is Not Anti-Jewish, Part II
This is Part II of an analysis of Ahmad Tibi’s op-ed on the CNN website. We left Part I where I showed the only two laws Tibi deemed worthy of being examples of his...
Ahmad Tibi Says He is Not Anti-Jewish, Part I.
Last month, CNN published an op-ed written by Member of Knesset Ahmad Tibi. I could not let the piece stand unchallenged. Already in the second paragraph, Tibi writes: We are not responding to the...
