Haviv Rettig Gur is the senior analyst for the Times of Israel.
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Why did Israel’s intelligence agencies fail to prepare for the attacks of October 7? Why were warnings ignored? Why didn’t the defensive measures in place work? Could the IDF have responded more quick...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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There are a great many fascinating insights contained in the responses to my essay on Israel’s civil service. Some differences between the respondents are the inevitable result of different perspect...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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How does Israel keep functioning despite constant political turmoil? Meet the opaque group of unelected bureaucrats that the country’s politicians rely on to save it from themselves.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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I ’m very grateful to Evelyn Gordon, Daniel Polisar, and Douglas Feith for their stimulating responses to my essay , “How and Why Israelis Vote,” which appeared in Mosaic a week before the April 9...
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A primer on the state of play of Israeli politics, how Israel’s electoral system shapes (and warps) priorities, and why Netanyahu has reason to be worried about his new rival.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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There is much that is true and important in Moshe Koppel and Eugene Kontorovich’s defense in Mosaic of Israel’s new Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People. The law, passed by t...
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Two points stand out in Ofir Haivry’s Mosaic essay, “ Israel’s Demographic Miracle .” The first touches on Israel’s inspiring and in some ways inexplicable demographic strength. The Jewish fertility...
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In “ Disorder in the Court ,” Evelyn Gordon covers a great deal of ground in her systematic review of, and commentary on, Daniel Friedmann’s book-length critique of Israel’s judiciary. In many ways, s...
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Possibly the most surprising thing about Daniel Polisar’s essay, “What Do Palestinians Want?,” is that the simple question it poses is so rarely asked. In his examination of 330 local surveys of Pales...
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Edward Grossman’s essay captures in an impressionistic sweep the intertwined fears, joys, and dangers that make up the present-day Israeli experience. Looming over it all is the distant yet imminent P...
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Why do people cling so passionately to political opinions, even when a preponderance of facts suggests their views might be wrong or incomplete? To the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of...
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Yoav Sorek’s essay, “ Israel’s Big Mistake ,” is many things at once : a paean to a once-vigorous and self-confident Israel; a lament over the failures and shattered dreams of Arab-Israeli rapprocheme...
