Knesset

Seeing pictures and reading first-hand reports of Wednesday night's riot in which Jews targeted African refugees in Tel Aviv left me shocked and saddened.

Don't hold your breath expecting big things, either bad or good, from this big new government. Expect, instead, business as usual.

To overcome Israel's debilitating political party structure, there is an urgent need to support the creation of a single party consisting of the left and left-of-center parties.

We Palestinians are no Johnny-come-lately. Our ties to this land go back centuries, as most historians will tell you. The fanciful history of Professor Gingrich, however, seems more to do with securing the Republican nomination than with speaking the truth.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli parliament's ethics committee has suspended a lawmaker for reciting an innuendo-laden poem mocking a colleague who herse...

JERUSALEM — The ethics committee of Israel's parliament has suspended a lawmaker for dumping water on a colleague during a heated debate. Durin...

(AP) JERUSALEM — Israeli politicians often pour cold water on each other's ideas, but rarely on each other. Anastassia Michaeli, a hawkish Israel...

There are many reasons why the recent spate of domestic legislation in Israel -- regarding non-governmental organizations, the media, Israel as a Jewish State, the Supreme Court -- is disturbing.

There is a joke among Israelis that for every two people here, there are at least three opinions. That's what makes the stories of the three men I'm about to tell you about so unexpected.

Israeli society and its polity have moved towards increasing fragmentation. As opposed to the picture Israel's right wing tries to paint, it goes way beyond the tensions between Jews and Arabs.

While Beck's visit elicited a range of responses, from politicians, news commentators and social activists, there were those who were rather blasé about his visit. Speaking to an Israeli security guard, Iyov, outside the event, I asked him what he thought of Glenn Beck. "Who is Glenn Beck?" was his response.

Freedom of speech is a memory. Israel is well on its way down the slippery slope into a totalitarian nightmare.

There is a sense of outrage within the Israeli public following the passing of "the boycott law" in the Knesset last week. This law has pushed many Israelis to support boycotting the settlements for the first time.

The anti-boycott law passed this week has sparked a storm of controversy both inside Israel and within Jewish communities abroad. The legislation effectively criminalizes Israelis who answer the Palestinian civil society call to join the BDS movement.

This is the one. Don't let what we here like to call the relative calm, fool you. When the Knesset passed the boycott law Monday night, it changed the history of the state of Israel.

Glenn Beck, the former Fox News personality, has devised a three-point strategy that enables him to widely disseminate the old "blame the Jews" meme without being dismissed as anti-Semitic.

The Glenn Beck circus at the Knesset Monday had it all: Ecstatic fans who pushed and shoved to meet him; a theatrical as ever Beck, pounding on the table and yelling "Amen"; MK Arieh Eldad saying the occupation must end -- the Islamic occupation of Israel, that is.

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting Israeli Government, you are called upon to reflect on the 62nd anniversary of the ...

The next Israel -- the Israel which will decide whether a truly democratic Jewish state can exist in this world -- is just beginning.

If anything kills the withering two-state solution, which could indeed happen very soon, it will be much greater forces than puny legislation passed by the most right-wing government in Israel's history.

The Israeli public has already spoken in the elections: the current question is whether the Knesset will muster the courage and integrity to deliver the goods for which it was elected.