Rosner’s Domain | Cracks in the IDF’s Image Wall
On Monday, an Israeli minister likened the chiefs of Israel’s security forces to the Wagner group.
Shmuel Rosner is an Israeli columnist, editor, and researcher. He is the editor of the research and data-journalism website themadad.com, and is the political editor of the Jewish Journal.
On Monday, an Israeli minister likened the chiefs of Israel’s security forces to the Wagner group.
Yair Lapid, a former Prime Minister and the head of the Israeli opposition, has a new slogan: “the 75 alliance,” also called “the new Israeli alliance.”
There is no debate about one thing: The share of Jews in the Galilee region is decreasing.
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the leader of the Litvak ultra-Orthodox community who died May 30th, was little more than a hundred.
In March, a strange act was exercised by Israel’s government: it raises the possibility of canceling past events by making decisions in the present time.
In Tel Aviv, which was indeed always open to everyone, new winds are blowing.
For a week of fighting in Gaza, it was easy to forget about all the other urgent challenges that Israel faces.
Sometimes even a bad government makes the right decisions.
The Ottomans instituted the Millet system, which binds marriages and divorces to religious communities, each according to its tradition. The State of Israel had a short debate, then also decided to keep it intact.
Last Saturday, April 21, was exactly 41 years since the final evacuation of the city of Yamit.