Judicial Reform and the Implications for Israeli Democracy
By Suzie Navot
In this edited transcript of her conversation with BICOM Director Richard Pater, Vice-President of Research at the Israel...
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November 2022
Book Review | Bibi: My Story
By Colin Shindler
When he was asked by a student in 2018, what is the most important subject to study for...
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November 2022
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
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
Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People | An interview with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy
By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy
Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding spoke with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy about Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and...
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November 2020
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies | An interview with Clive Jones
By Clive Jones
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies by Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky is a revealing history of the complex and...
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March 2020
Third Time Lucky, the Crown Still Belongs to King Bibi
By Jack Omer-Jackaman
Those disappointed by the seeming victory of the Likud leader in the 2 March 2020 elections should take...
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March 2020
The Last Dove: an interview with Ehud Olmert
By Tal Kra-Oz
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was one of Ariel Sharon’s closest political allies; in 2005 the two...
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February 2020
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Israel elections: ‘With Lieberman you can never know for sure what he will do next.’ Analysis from...
By Lahav Harkov
Over the last few elections Israelis have gotten used to the idea that the Likud and the Right...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | ‘People say he who wields the dagger rarely sits on the throne. Lieberman sees things differently’ |...
By Anshel Pfeffer
Anshel Pfeffer is a leading Israeli journalist and the author of Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | The Robbed Cossack and the Imaginary Reality of the Right: a rejoinder to Yisrael Medad
By Revital Amiran
A sharp rejoinder from Revital Amiran to Yisrael Medad’s critique of her Fathom article ‘The Zionist Left is...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Caught between delegitimisation and non-participation in government: the dilemmas of the Arab voter seeking influence in Israel
By Afif Abu Much
Influenced by Netanyahu’s delegitimisation campaign, the Centre-left is making a critical mistake in not reaching out to the...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Why I'm voting Blue and White
By Yair Zivan
Yair Zivan believes Israelis have a choice between a Prime Minister indicted in three criminal cases and an...
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April 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | ‘We are at the end of the Netanyahu era': A Fathom Forum with Anshel Pfeffer
By Anshel Pfeffer
In this Fathom Forum, journalist and writer Anshel Pfeffer, author of The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin...
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March 2019
IsraelVotes2019 | Fathoming the Israeli elections: an interview with Nahum Barnea
By Nahum Barnea
Nahum Barnea is a veteran Israeli commentator for Yediot Ahronoth who has covered Israeli domestic and foreign affairs...
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February 2019
‘To understand what makes Israel tick today you must understand who Netanyahu is and how he became the man he...
By Anshel Pfeffer
Anshel Pfeffer is the author of a major new biography of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In this...
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May 2018
One-to-one | Towards the renewal of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
By Dahlia Scheindlin
On 22 March Fathom editor Alan Johnson sat down with Dahlia Scheindlin for the first of Fathom’s one-to-one interviews,...
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April 2018
The Netanyahu Years: an interview with Ben Caspit
By Ben Caspit
In this exclusive interview, Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor sits down with Ben Caspit, a senior columnist for...
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Winter 2017
Two-state solution 2.0: New Israeli thinking on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Toby Greene
A number of proposals for how Israel can act to change the status quo in the Israeli-Palestinian arena...
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Spring 2016
‘This shows it is possible to transform Israel into a just society’: Ron Gerlitz on the Arab Economic Development Plan
By Ron Gerlitz
The Israeli government has approved an ambitious $3.85 billion plan for the social and employment development of Israel’s Arab citizens....
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Autumn 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Have rejectionists slammed the door on the two-state solution?
By BICOM
A panel discussion on the two-state solution at the UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference. Participants were: Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser, Omer Bar...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Yair Lapid in conversation with Bronwen Maddox
By Yair Lapid
Leader of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaking to Prospect editor Bronwen Maddox the BICOM-Jewish News ‘UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference’.
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Isaac Herzog in conversation with Jonathan Freedland
By Isaac Herzog
Leader of Israel's opposition and Zionist Union party Isaac Herzog speaking to The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland the BICOM-Jewish...
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Summer 2015
Making Sense of the Israeli Elections
By Naomi Chazan
On 20 March 2015, three days after the Israeli election, former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Naomi Chazan...
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Winter 2015
The Future of the Israeli Right: An interview with Yoaz Hendel
By Yoaz Hendel
Israel’s upcoming election is being billed as a choice over the future ideological direction of the country. To...
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Winter 2015
‘Only a blind person would ignore the gravity of the threat which is emerging’: an interview with Dore Gold
By Dore Gold
To get a contrasting view on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s national security policy, Fathom deputy editor Toby Greene spoke with Dore...
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Winter 2015
‘There is no policy, we are on the edge of a volcano’: an interview with Efraim Halevy
By Efraim Halevy
Efraim Halevy was Director of Mossad from 1998 to 2002. Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom. They...
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Winter 2015
Book Review | Israel and the World Powers: Diplomatic Alliances and International Relations beyond the Middle East
By Jacob Eriksson
This volume comes at a particularly interesting time for Israel. The most recent war in Gaza has claimed...
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Autumn 2014
A moment to seize in the Israeli-Palestinian arena
By Michael Herzog
In March 2013 Brig. Gen. (ret.) Michael Herzog analysed a possible opportunity in the Israeli-Palestinian arena for BICOM. Here...
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Summer 2013
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