Israel’s Campaign in Gaza Has Been a Success, but Won’t Achieve a Decisive Victory
Evaluating Shield and Arrow.
May 12, 2023
The Israeli Left May Have Stopped Judicial Reform, but It Hasn’t Won Over the Public
A victory for the center-right, not the center-left.
According to recent polls (taken, one should note, before the fighting with Gaza resumed on Tuesday), the Likud would lose eight Knesset seats if an election were held tomorrow, while the other parties in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition would lose another three or four. Conventional wisdom reasonably assumes that the stalled attempt at judicial reform, and the social unrest it brought about, are responsible for this shift. Yet, argues Michel Gurfinkiel, it is not Yair Lapid—who emerged as the leader of the anti-judicial-reform protests—and his secularist, center-left Yesh Atid party, who stand to gain from the prime minister’s loss:
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The Israeli Left May Have Stopped Judicial Reform, but It Hasn’t Won Over the Public
A victory for the center-right, not the center-left.
Congressional Democrats Greet Anti-Israel Slurs with a Shrug
Nakba Day on Capitol Hill with Rashida Tlaib and Bernie Sanders.
The Riches of Jewish Practice Can More Than Compete with the Marketplace of Secular Alternatives
Mitzvot and the aspiration to perform them abound in the souls of American Jews.
Jewish Artistic Creativity for the Days between Passover and Shavuot
Three-hundred years of omer art.