Israel70 | Diaspora70: Reflections of an Old Zionist
By Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is one of America's foremost political thinkers. To mark Israel’s 70th birthday he urges the embrace...
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April 2018
Israel70 | It is time for the minority to establish itself as a political actor in Israeli decision-making
By Mohammad Darawshe
Mohammad Darawshe is Director of the Center for Shared Society at Givat Haviva Institute and also served as...
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March 2018
Israel70 | Democracy against all odds, or at odds with democracy?
By Yohanan Plesner
Yochanan Plesner, President of the Israel Democracy Institute, argues that in order for Israel to secure a democratic...
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March 2018
Israel70 | Celebrating the argument
By Einat Wilf with Shany Mor
Zionism and the State of Israel are unique examples of a movement of national liberation, and a state,...
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March 2018
Israel70 | Young Voices: Israel's Arabs should be in Israel's government
By Tal Harris
Tal Harris is the spokesperson of MK Amir Peretz and a PhD candidate in sociology on urban migration...
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April 2018
Feminism in Israel | Feminism and the melodies of Judaism
By Elana Maryles Sztokman
The decision of Elana Maryles Sztokman, a long-time leading figure in US and Israeli Orthodox Jewish feminism to...
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | Contesting social exclusion in Israel
By Michal Gera Margaliot and Miriam Zalkind
In this in-depth interview with Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor, the leaders of the Israel Women’s Network raise...
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | 'Religious women in the IDF increasingly won’t let religious authorities tell them what to do': an...
By Rachel Tevet-Vizel
Rachel Tevet Vizel was ‘gender advisor’ to the IDF Chief of Staff from 2011 to 2017,a period that...
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | ‘There is a place for everyone in this feminist struggle for life’: an interview with Samah...
By Samah Salaime
Samah Salaime is the founder of Na’am/Arab Women in the Center. A social worker, she lives and works...
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February 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
Feminism in Israel | Women in Israel – a revolution halted?
By Dahlia Scheindlin
In this careful mapping of the terrain, Dahlia Scheindlin examines whether the forward march of women in Israel...
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | Haredi Feminism: an interview with Pnina Pfeuffer
By Pnina Pfeuffer
Pnina Pfeuffer is a leading figure in Haredi feminism and a regular columnist for Ha’aretz, Jerusalem Post, and...
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | Feminism and the melodies of Judaism
By Elana Maryles Sztokman
The decision of Elana Maryles Sztokman, a long-time leading figure in US and Israeli Orthodox Jewish feminism to...
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | Gender equality and the status of women in Israel: an interview with MK Aliza Lavie
By Aliza Lavie
Aliza Lavie is a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid and a senior lecturer at the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University....
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | Meeting the challenges, making the changes: governing for women’s equality
By Rachel Azaria
Rachel Azaria is a Modern Orthodox Israeli politician, currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Kulanu....
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February 2018
Feminism in Israel | ‘Pious men and dangerous women’: sex-segregation as a threat to women’s equality in Israel - an...
By Yofi Tirosh
Dr Yofi Tirosh is angry that she is still devoting ‘most of my time, energy, rage and despair...
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February 2018
BDS and DSA: the American Left loses its way
By Jo-Ann Mort
Dissent editorial board member Jo-Ann Mort, a cofounder of the Democratic Socialists of America and former vice-chair (and...
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Autumn 2017
Book Review | We Were the Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz
By Liam Hoare
Of all the aspects and institutions of kibbutz life, the children’s house is one that in particular continues...
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Autumn 2017
Human Rights and German-Israeli relations after the Gabriel Affair
By Gadi Taub
In April 2017 the social democratic German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel decided to meet with Breaking the Silence...
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Autumn 2017
A question of moral responsibility: an interview with Hagai El-Ad of B’Tselem
By Hagai El-Ad
Hagai El-Ad is the Executive Director of B'Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the...
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Autumn 2017
‘The Zionist Left needs to understand that change is impossible without us’: an interview with MK Ayman Odeh
By Ayman Odeh
21 per cent of Israel’s citizens are Arab-Palestinians. Since 2015 the leader of the Joint List – an...
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Autumn 2017
Fathom Forum | Professor Sammy Smooha: ‘Israeli Democracy in Comparative Perspective’
By Sammy Smooha
Sammy Smooha is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Haifa, and winner of the 2008 Israel...
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Spring 2017
1967 | Why more and more Israeli Jews think the settlements are in Israel
By Oded Haklai
Oded Haklai reports on research suggesting that for the generations of Israeli Jews born after 1967, the pre-1967...
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Spring 2017
Response to Michael Walzer’s ‘On Chaim Gans on the Jewish Diaspora’
By Chaim Gans
Writing in Fathom Michael Walzer responded to the discussion of diaspora Jews in Chaim Gans’s book A Political...
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Spring 2017
‘I did not leave the Likud, the Likud left me’: an interview with Moshe Ya’alon
By Moshe Ya'alon
Moshe Ya'alon is a former Chief of Staff for the IDF and served under the Netanyahu government for...
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Spring 2017
State and religion in Israel: An interview with Elazar Stern
By Elazar Stern
Elazar Stern is an Israeli politician and former soldier. He served as a Major General in the IDF...
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Spring 2017
Justifying Israel: An interview with Chaim Gans
By Chaim Gans
Chaim Gans is a political philosopher and Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. He is the author...
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Winter 2016
Debating Israel’s Identity
By Ruth Gavison
Ruth Gavison is Professor Emerita, holding the Haim H. Cohn Chair of Human Rights, in the Faculty of...
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Winter 2016
Mamlakhtiyut, peace and the dangerous rise of populism: In memory of Shimon Peres
By Amir Peretz
Amir Peretz is a Member of Knesset (Labor Party), former defence minister and former minister for the protection...
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Winter 2016
Everyday Binationality in Jaffa: an interview with Daniel Monterescu
By Daniel Monterescu
Daniel Monterescu is the author of Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel / Palestine.[1] An anthropologist...
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Winter 2016
The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu: an interview with Neill Lochery
By Neill Lochery
Neil Lochery is the Catherine Lewis Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies at University College London (UCL)....
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Autumn 2016
‘People didn’t dream there would be Haredim’: an interview with Rabbi Menahem Shemtov and Rebbetzin Shoshana Shemtov
By Rabbi Menahem Shemtov and Rebbetzin Shoshana Shemtov
Rabbi Menahem Shemtov is the chairman of the Rabbis Committee for Inter-Religious Dialogue formally on behalf of the...
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Autumn 2016
‘The trends in high-tech are changing, but not at a pace Arab graduates need’: An interview with Reem Younis
By Reem Younis
Reem Younis is co-founder of Nazareth-based Alpha Omega, a global high-tech company that seeks to further high-tech skills,...
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Autumn 2016
‘Each must see the Other’: Education and mutual recognition in Israel – an interview with Ayman Agbaria
By Ayman Agbaria
Professor Ayman Agbaria is a Palestinian poet, playwright, scholar and activist. He is a senior lecturer in education...
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Autumn 2016
Lies, Damned Lies and the Academic Boycott of Israel
By Michael Yudkin
Oxford University academic Michael Yudkin critiques the ‘Academic boycott’ promoted by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and...
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Summer 2016
Israel and the Death Penalty: Lessons from the Talmud
By Edward Rettig
The proposal to make it easier to pass the death sentence is a troubling exercise in unsustainable moral...
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Summer 2016
Social Cohesion and the Future of Israel
By Mike Prashker
Mike Prashker, author of a forthcoming book, A Place for Us All – Social Cohesion and The Future...
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Summer 2016
Darkenu: keeping the dream of Israel alive
By Polly Bronstein
Israel has a new organisation. Darkenu styles itself as the movement of Israel’s moderates. It’s leader Polly Bronstein...
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Summer 2016
Docaviv 2016 – The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
By Gavin Gross
This May witnessed the annual Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, an event dedicated to the development and...
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Summer 2016
Defending Human Rights in a Nation Under Siege: A Sermon of Sorts
By Edward Rettig
In a chaotic and morally obtuse situation, little understood by outsiders, Israel must still try to follow the...
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Summer 2016
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