Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Israel News Gay Candidate Nitzan Horowitz Seeks To Shake Up Tel Aviv Mayor Contest
To Nitzan Horowitz, Tel Aviv-Jaffa embodies equality and openness — but only for those who can afford to live there. In many ways, he says, his city is a beacon of tolerance. After all, a significant part of it — the exact figure will become clear only on election day, October 22 — is backing…
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Opinion Knesset Returns To Work — At Last
The Knesset returned to work today, after its exceedingly long summer break, and all indications are that we’re in for a session full of passion, arguments, and anger. The key issues on the table divide Israel along its various social and electoral cleavages: religious, ethnic, dove-hawk, and left-right on domestic matters. And of course, this…
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Opinion Is Yair Lapid’s Honeymoon Over?
The Israeli election in January was widely lauded as a testament to the revival of Israel centrism. Coming out of nowhere the brand new Yesh Atid party won 19 seats — almost a sixth of the Knesset’s mandates. Is this revival now over? A poll just conducted for the Globes financial newspaper found that if…
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Israel News Sephardic Shas Party Struggles To Survive Death of Towering Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Will Shas, Israel’s largest ultra-Orthodox political party, survive the death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Sephardic religious leader whose towering authority enabled him to found the party and unite its followers behind his will? Some political analysts are casting their glances backward in looking for clues — specifically, to the 1994 death of the Lubavitcher…
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News Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Kingmaker of Israeli Politics, Dies at 93
Ovadia Yosef, the rabbi responsible for turning religiously observant Sephardic Jews from a marginalized minority into one of Israel’s most politically powerful groups, has died at age 93. Yosef was widely revered as a kind of living saint during his lifetime. He inspired adoring love songs extolling his virtues, and his death is expected to…
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Israel News Israeli Holocaust Survivors Split Over Iran’s Acknowledgement of Nazi Crimes
Israel has brusquely dismissed Iran’s moves away from the Holocaust denial of its previous president. But actual Holocaust survivors in Israel are divided on how to react to the development. “Personally, for me, it was important — it made me feel something,” said Chava Hershkovitz, 80, at the Yad Ezer L’Haver home for survivors in…
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Opinion It’s Olive War Time in West Bank
It’s Olive War season. Unfortunately, we’re not talking about a gourmet reality television show, but rather a several-week period of clashes where Palestinians and settlers try to hit each other in their pockets, via their olive groves. In recent years, attacks by Palestinians on settler groves and vice-versa have increased significantly. Of course, it’s more…
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Opinion Palestinians Say Third Intifada Is Coming: Poll
Almost two thirds of Palestinians think that a third intifada is round the corner if the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks fail, according to a new poll. The Palestinian Center for Public Opinion asked Arab residents of the West Bank and Gaza whether they “anticipate the outbreak of a third Intifada in case the peace process…
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