Opinion | Israel voted for change, but that’s only the beginning of the story
By Toby Greene
During Benjamin Netanyahu’s first premiership in the late 1990s, his crisis-driven leadership style led British Ambassador David Manning...
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March 2021
Mansour Abbas: Islamist Kingmaker of Israeli politics
By Calev Ben-Dor
Arab political parties have become central players in Israeli politics. But how has a young dentist turned politician...
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March 2021
UK-Israel2021 | The Rockiest of Starts: Anglo-Israeli Relations 1948-1950
By Natan Aridan
Natan Aridan is Lecturer in Israel Studies and researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of...
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March 2021
Book Review | The Wondering Jew
By Robin Moss
In the spring and summer of 2017, Micah Goodman caused something of a publishing sensation with Milkud 67,...
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March 2021
Book Review | Jews Don’t Count
By Sarah Brown
The premise of Jews Don’t Count is that antisemitism is too often glossed over – blanked out –...
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March 2021
Israel Election Special | Eight Israelis explain their vote
By Fathom Editors
Next Tuesday, 23 March, Israelis will go to the polls for the fourth time in two years. Slowly emerging...
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March 2021
Israel Election 2021 | 'Why I am voting for the Joint List'
By Guli Dolev-Hashiloni
At first glance, it may seem like these elections – like the previous three – concern one topic:...
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March 2021
Israel Election 2021 | 'Why I am voting for Yamina'
By Shraga Alweiss
The Israeli public approaches these elections battered and bruised. Quite simply, there have been too many failed attempts...
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March 2021
Israel Election 2021 | 'Why I am voting for the Labour Party'
By Peter Lerner
Avoda, Israel's Labour Party, is the party that established the State of Israel. In November 2020, the ideology...
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March 2021
Israel Election 2021 | 'Why I am voting for the Likud'
By Fleur Hassan-Nahoum
The main reason I am voting Likud in this election is because two years ago after years of...
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March 2021
Israel's political system is broken. Here is how to fix it.
By Yohanan Plesner
As Israelis head to the polls for the fourth time in two years, Yohanan Plesner, President of the...
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March 2021
Israel Election 2021 | 'Why I am (reluctantly) voting for Meretz'
By Ittay Flescher
As an Israeli with progressive values who believes in seeing equality for all people who live in this...
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March 2021
Israel Election 2021 | 'Why I am voting for Yisrael Beytenu'
By Oded Forer
These elections are about the future of the State of Israel. Not just some theoretical conceptualisation of where...
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March 2021
Israel Election 2021 | 'Why I am voting for New Hope'
By Emmanuel Navon
The fact that Israel has experienced four snap elections within two years is not the outcome of a...
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March 2021
Israel Election 2021 | 'Why I am voting for Yesh Atid'
By Terry Newman
The big ideological battle of the day is Centrism vs the rest. Centrism not as the middle point...
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March 2021
Fathom Long Read | The Meaning of David Miller
By David Hirsh
According to Bristol University Professor David Miller, ‘Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public...
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March 2021
Book Review | Judaism Straight Up, Why Real Religion Endures
By Daniel Goldman
Professor Moshe Koppel is the founder and executive chairman of Forum Kohelet, an influential think tank instrumental in...
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March 2021
Book Review | The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions
By Kyle Orton
A little over a year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump gave the order to kill Qassem Soleimani, the...
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March 2021
Book Review | Matzpen: A History of Israeli Dissidence
By Colin Shindler
Lutz Fiedler's highly informative book about the far Left group, Matzpen, is a welcome addition to the recording...
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March 2021
Trump and Netanyahu: The Disagreements Beneath The Surface
By Ofer Zalzberg
In this insightful essay Ofer Zalzberg, Director of the Middle East Program at the Herbert C. Kelman Institute...
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March 2021
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