Column
In the current crisis, the West is paying the price of pretending that China’s Communist regime does not represent a threat to other countries. COVID-19 has now shown the supreme folly of such an assumption.
In spite of frustration with restrictions, fears about medical shortages and the desire to revive the economy, nothing can justify treating the lives of older persons as not worth saving.
By resigning, Yuli Edelstein is refusing to allow the parliament he ran to become an extension of the judiciary branch under his watch.
The shutting down of the global economy could lead to a devastating drop in charitable giving and lead to a necessary winnowing of organized Jewish life.
The relationships that diplomats develop through our regular work can help grease the wheels of governmental action and cut through bureaucratic red tape, ensuring online sharing of data and medical expertise.
The least that those backpackers could do after the “enormous effort and expense” that was spent on repatriating them was sign a quarantine declaration.
Just as Israel is forced to deal with what is quickly ballooning into the largest health and economic crisis in its history, a political crisis is shaking the very foundations of Israel’s system of governance, and rapidly eroding the trust of its beleaguered citizenry.
Participation was up, and critics of Israel lost ground this year. But it also illustrated the gap between those who are passionate about Jewish life and unaffiliated Jews.
An Israeli government in which the Joint List plays any role—official or unofficial—will ignite an unprecedented crisis between Israel and the Diaspora.
Amid a global pandemic, the threat of war with Iran and economic collapse, Israel’s Blue and White Party is dead set on bringing Netanyahu down—even if it means taking Israel down with him.
If Iran is suffering from the virus, the blame belongs to terror-supporting theocratic tyrants and Obama’s appeasement, not Trump’s sanctions.
When authoritarian regimes lie to their own people about a worldwide, contagious disease, their lies have an impact on those of us who are otherwise mercifully spared from living under their direct jurisdiction.