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Boaz Bismuth

Boaz Bismuth is editor in chief of Israel Hayom.

Political chaos and social tensions aside, the project called the State of Israel is a resounding success.
Even amid a pandemic, we can rejoice at the first open, warm peace between Israel and Arab countries—and ignore the cynics seeking to downplay its importance.
Serbia is looking for a family, and Kosovo is looking for recognition, and Israel is precisely situated at the intersection between the two.
COVID-19 will be with us for a while and seems to be bringing out the worst in us. Defeating the virus requires unity. There is no room for incitement or for flouting health directives.
While I welcome the court’s unanimous 11-0 ruling on the petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu and the coalition deal, it was the result of a game that should never have been played in the first place.
Israel has so far been handling the coronavirus pandemic well, but this is an ongoing, global crisis, unprecedented in scope, and grades are given at the end.
The anti-Netanyahu camp is ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater, like Rep. Rashida Tlaib did when she spurned the premier’s offer of a non-political visit to her ailing grandmother.
This Purim is hardly festive, but we need to see the glass as half-full, as Israelis are once again show their solidarity, social cohesion, friendship and responsibility, as individuals and as a society.
Instead of celebrating an ideological and political victory, the leaders of the settlement enterprise are unnecessarily anxious.