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Rosner’s Domain

Rosner’s Domain: Can’t They Just Compromise?

A country divided over its vision for the future can stick together if the rules of how decisions are made are clear and legitimate. But when one camp feels that it is about to be cheated out of the game – losing its ability to function in a free society – it immediately radicalizes.

Rosner’s Domain— A Legal Counter-Revolution

One way or the other, what Justice Minister Yariv Levin has in mind is not a tweak; it is a foundational change. It is also the main first act of the new ruling coalition, and it signals that this coalition plans to be bold, and controversial. 

Rosner’s Domain— A Timely First Coalition Battle

Avi Maoz was appointed to serve as deputy minister in charge of external programming at schools in the incoming coalition. He is an ultra-conservative, anti-LGBT, anti-progressivism, anti-pluralism member of a fringe faction within the (quite radical) Zionist Religious Party.

Rosner’s Domain— Climbing the Override Law Tree

A new government is coming to Israel, energetic, revolutionary, ambitious. There is a blizzard of rumored initiatives, there is a storm of trial balloons, there is a pour of proposals and demands — some of which will materialize, and many that will not. Some of them are realistic, and many will hit a brick wall.

Rosner’s Domain— Tolerate and Separate?

Two prospective members of the coalition, the Religious Zionism Party and United Torah Judaism, are demanding legislation that will ensure the ability of separating men and women at certain public events, without this being considered discriminatory.

Let’s Stop at “Worried”

If you feel that the old Israel is gone, and a new Israel was born last week, when a coalition of right-wing and religious parties won a majority, go back to square one. Obviously, you’ve missed more than a few developments that brought us to this point. 

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