Jewish democracy

Our future rests on prioritizing the common good, not the elections - opinion

Democracy’s greatest strength has always rested upon something deeper: the belief that despite our disagreements, there exists a common good that is worth pursuing together.

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 Rabbi Elimelech Biderman with his followers celebrate the jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer, in Meron. May 9, 2023

Lag Ba’omer reminds us to choose respect over division among Jews - opinion

EXPRESSING SUPPORT for separation of church and state.

Parashat Vayechi: Keeping Israel Jewish – without coercion

 EDUCATION MINISTER Yoav Kisch visits a classroom on the first day of school, in Jerusalem, last September.

Yoav Kisch's new education plans fails to define Israel's democratic values - opinion


Know Comment: Hypocrisy and hysteria

The Jewish nation-state law is upright, reasonable and required. It should be passed by the Knesset.

A bloodied Israeli flag hangs on the main building at the University of Cape Town on Monday at the start of Israel-Apartheid Week.

Conference on Israeli economy to kick off Tuesday

The conference will be broadcast in Hebrew on the Israel Democracy Institute website.

YOHANAN PLESNER: The IDI is a think and do tank.

Knesset refuses to put bill rejecting Jewish, democratic Israel to a vote

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said the bill is “absurd” and should be blocked - the first time in five years as speaker that Edelstein has recommended such a thing.

MK Ahmad Tibi (Joint List) was removed from the Knesset after shouting out that the Nation-State bill is racist.

Arab press laments Israeli superiority in education, innovation, justice

The articles cited Israel's education, innovation, democratic values, the country's ability to prosecute corrupt officials and its political stability as the source of its success.

Media screens from Israeli media show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

IN CHARTS: A snapshot of Israeli democracy

From the 2017 Israeli Democracy Index and The Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research.

Charts (Illustrative)

Israel’s pre-charge detention law is undemocratic

The Israeli Supreme Court must follow in the footsteps of other Western democracies by finding the pre-charge detention law illegal.

The Supreme Court, Jerusalem

US Jewish community needs more democracy

An encouraging exception in the world of Jewish office-hunters is the World Union of Jewish Students. Its recent conference featured a genuinely democratic election

The World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) picture taken at the Leonardo Hotel in Jerusalem Credit: Dana Levinson Steiner

Taking responsibility in Israel's Jewish democracy

Rivlin touched tangentially on three concepts that keep eluding our politicians and, with them as role models, have also escaped too many Israelis: responsibility, accountability and transparency.

sraeli lawmakers attend a vote on a bill at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 6, 2017