Society

What threat model did the UAE confront, and why should we care? - opinion

Iran’s Velayat-e Faqih was an operational, overt, dangerous sleeper cell; the United Arab Emirates State Security Service took it down

A man fixes the United Arab Emirates’ national flag to the roof of his house in Dubai, after a call by the UAE’s vice president, prime minister, and ruler of Dubai, urging people across the country to hoist the flag as a symbol of unity and pride.
Children at Beersheba’s Hagar bilingual school read together

The language gap – and why it matters - opinion

Arab-Israeli educator Suleiman Suleiman advocates shared responsibility and coexistence.

Arab-Israeli educator Suleiman Suleiman advocates shared responsibility and coexistence

 An illustrative image of a public safe room in Israel, requiring the ability to climb down a narrow flight of stairs.

The frontline is no longer at the border, it's in our living rooms - opinion


To lift lockdown gloom, Israelis keep calm and carry on screaming

While some Israelis take part in street demonstrations, others take to nature and shout to the heavens.

A woman takes part in a screaming session with a group seeking emotional release from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) confinements, in an open area near Ra'anana, Israel February 7, 2021.

Education and democracy in crisis - opinion

In Israel, which is rife with disagreement over what might count as a good life and with those who seek to impose their concepts of the good on others, education should oppose the threat of tyranny.

Democracy, illustrative

Corporate Arab managers

Kav Mashve also is working with Arab employees in Israeli companies. Its Lead Forward program aims to instill confidence in employees when seeking promotions to managerial positions.

Pedestrians are reflected in the windows of a branch of Bank Leumi, Israel's second-largest lender, in Tel Aviv, Israel

Israel Elections: Looking at the present to understand the future

There were the questions about Israel’s religious and ethnic character, its economy and growing population.

 A voting box in the last Israeli election in 2015

Most Israelis now recognize Novy God, but still feel it's not Israeli

While most Israelis now recognize the Russian Novy God holiday, over 70% still do not see it as part of Israeli culture.

A decorated spruce tree, traditional in the Novi God (New Year) celebration, seen at a Russian-Israeli home in Jerusalem, on January 1, 2016. Novigod is a Russian tradition of celebrating together with family on New Year's Eve, and New Year's day.

The need for societal vaccinations to cure societal division - opinion

It is up to each of us to develop and administer ‘societal vaccinations’ to cure escalating divisions between different sectors

Haredim are seen protesting on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, holding signs that read "Israeli antisemitism = hatred for haredi scholars."

2020's coronavirus reflects the good and bad of Israeli society

Some initially ranked Israel’s handling of the crisis as among the best in the world, but then it went to being described as a debacle handled as badly as the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

 A WORKER reflected in his vehicle’s mirror at a Tel Aviv cemetery in March, at a special center preparing bodies of Jews who died due to coronavirus.

Bav Majithia Elucidates the Importance of Philanthropy amid the Pandemic

We often see philanthropy in action in a crisis, such as donations following a hurricane or earthquake.


ISResilience: Resilience as an inherent element of the Israeli psyche

“By any rational analysis,” write the authors, “Israel should not exist at all, let alone be a thriving powerhouse of a country.

RABBI ISRAEL MEIR LAU, one of the interviewees in ISResilience, (right) touches the hand of Pope Benedict XVI at Yad Vashem in 2009.

Developing a new Israeli language to unite a divided nation – opinion

More than 70 years after the State of Israel’s independence, however, a considerable proportion of our original, shared language has been eroded.

A DEMONSTRATOR takes part in a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid Israel’s second nationwide lockdown, in Jerusalem on October 10.