By GILL HOFFMAN, JPOST— Israel’s fate for up to the next four years will be decided on Tuesday when 5,656,705 voters will be eligible to choose among 32 parties at 10,132 polling stations nationwide from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Politicians from across the political spectrum expressed optimism that, with good weather expected, turnout in…
By JONATHAN SCHANZER, NEW REPUBLIC— “We’re no longer on the verge of a third intifada—it’s already here,” one Israeli military official announced January 6. The invocation of intifada may have been intended to shock. But it also describes the new reality now emerging in Palestine. There has been a steady drumbeat of bad news coming…
By ISRAEL TODAY— Amid all the pre-election arguing over diplomatic, security and economic issues, the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem made a brief appearance as a topic of fiery debate between two Israeli candidates. The episode began when Israel’s Channel 2 News in its Friday evening coverage of the election aired a video showing…
By Lori Lowenthal Marcus, JEWISH PRESS— There hasn’t been a lot of good news recently for pro-Israel watchers of campus culture, but in the unlikeliest of places, by the unlikeliest of Zionists, there is finally good news to share. The University of New Orleans has nearly 13,000 undergraduate students, fewer than 100 of whom are…