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The temperature is rising in Israel. Peak summer brings soaring temperatures, uncomfortable humidity, and as has become a regular occurrence on a Saturday night, protests across...
The movement behind protesting the judicial overhaul before 7 October has become a major source of support for Israelis who needed evacuation, clothes, food, shelter, or...
The doomsday scenario that Jewish communities worldwide are hearing and feeling about religion and state in Israel ignores one thing: the realities on the ground. I...
Israel doesn’t have a comprehensive Constitution. In 1950, the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, adopted the Harari Decision, according to which the Knesset would gradually enact basic...
“I have not seen the likes of this since the Yitzchak Rabin assassination in 1995. It’s a rip in the fabric of society and the national...
In the inaugural cabinet meeting of Israel’s 37th government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined four primary objectives: containing Iran and its proxies – Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad,...
Comparisons they say, are odious, and they frequently are, but sometimes they cannot be helped, albeit subconsciously. We compare all the time. It’s a human condition,...
D was 13 years old, a Barmitzvah boy, when his family had to leave South Africa, and they immigrated to Israel. Now, those voices and sights...
It’s a balmy night in Tel Aviv. At 21:00, the temperature hovers above 30 degrees and the humidity clings to you like nylon. Hundreds of thousands...
“The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” So proposed Dick the Butcher in William Shakespeare’s Henry VI. United States Supreme Court Justice...
South African olim are devastated and exhilarated by the passing of the Reasonableness Bill this week, but all feel that much more passionate in the fight...
“My country tis of thee. Sweet land of liberty. Of thee, I sing.” These lyrics from an American song, ironically set to the tune of G-d...
Amid a countrywide Day of Resistance on the streets of Israel on 18 July, protest organiser and leader Roee Neuman (39) told the SA Jewish Report...
Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Tuesday, 11 July, for a “day of resilience”, but some called it a “day of disruption”....
Since the launch of the newly-elected Netanyahu-led coalition several months ago, Israel’s politics have been roiled by a profound internal debate over a series of judicial...
If the so-called “champions of democracy” succeed in obstructing the judicial reforms, democratic rule will be replaced by mob rule, and Israel will teeter on the...
When the daughter of a South African oleh, Galya Sackstein, went to sleep last Sunday night, 26 March, she was worried. “I didn’t know if I...
Olim form a vital part of Israeli society, yet their voices are often overtaken by the loud, proud voices of those born in Israel. But olim...
On Sunday evening, I was having dinner with friends in Tel Aviv during my short business trip to Israel. Obviously we discussed the judicial overhaul because...
“Unity is more important than any legislation. Such legislation should come to an immediate halt. We must stand as one nation for Israel’s 75th year of...
Since 7 January this year, Israelis have been taking to the streets every Saturday night to protest against the proposed judicial overhauls. Armed with Israeli flags,...
The heated debate on Israel’s judicial reform played out at the South African Zionist Federation’s webinar, “Courting controversy: the debate on Israel’s judicial reforms” on 9...
I have great empathy for Israeli demonstrators protesting against legal reform. The feeling that democracy is being taken away from you and that the rules of...
The radical legal reforms introduced by Israel’s new government in January, a few days after taking office, and the accompanying legislative blitz the ruling coalition initiated...
An independent judiciary played an important role, along with the public protector and the media, in preventing the collapse of South African constitutional democracy into a...
“What are you doing this Saturday night?” For many Israelis, the answer is simple and obvious. It’s a long time since so many thousands upon thousands...
