But the crisis around army service for ultra-Orthodox youth is more than a political issue. It touches on the essence of the relationship between the Jewish state and its citizens.
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Incendiary kites and balloons have joined artillery rockets in Gaza’s arsenal. They bleed Israel’s finances more than its people.
A new bill proposes to ban reporters and civilians alike from photographing or videoing Israeli troops.
The last thing the Middle East needs is another open conflict between two massive military powers. Fortunately, they both seem to agree.
A decades-long policy of ambiguity means that Israel’s chemical arsenal remains the subject of speculation.
Very few countries remain outside the world’s chemical weapons control regime. Why would Israel want to keep company with North Korea?
In 1988, I was in Kathmandu in Nepal when I found out that war was raging in the occupied territories; it would soon become known as “the intifada”. And when, in a small corner shop I spotted in one of…
In the 1982 Lebanon war I served as an Israeli artillery forward observer, my task to pinpoint the PLO’s positions and call in fire from our artillery units. We stayed in the evacuated Al Jamous School…
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