We should value democracy, safeguard it within Israeli society, and participate actively wherever we reside, cherishing the ...

The killing of 14-year-old Yosef Eisenthal, who was run over by a bus during an anti-recruitment protest in an Orthodox ...

One of the most damaging confusions in Israel’s current public debate is the assumption that religious moral seriousness and ...

Concerns over the erosion of women’s rights in Israel have intensified as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, backed by ultra-Orthodox parties, pushes the country towards a more ...

(RNS) — It was an amazing day in the life of a democratic country. (RNS) — In Israel Sunday (Aug. 17), as many as 500,000 people took to the streets — the per capita equivalent of 34 million U.S.

(The Conversation) — In late July 2024, the Israeli military sent out the first 1,000 conscription notices to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, following a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that the government ...

Jews in Israel have a take-it-or-leave-it choice in religion: be either completely Orthodox or thoroughly secular. Consequently, about one-third observe only the high holidays and another third ...

WASHINGTON One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meetings in the United States this week was not with American Jewish leaders but with evangelical ones. The conservative Christians ...

The 1920 violence was not an isolated incident. It was followed by: All of this occurred before Israel existed. The early ...

Israel seems to be at war with itself. For two weeks the Hebrew media have been dominated by street clashes between Jews arguing viciously over such matters as sleeve length and bus seating, which in ...

Support among Israelis for separating religion and state has fallen to its lowest point since 2012, according to the 2025 Religion and State Index published by the religious rights organization ...

The decline in women’s rights is measurable. In the 2025–26 Women, Peace and Security Index, Israel ranks 84 of 181 countries – behind Albania, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.