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Israel from the Inside is for people who want to understand Israel with nuance, who believe that Israel is neither hopelessly flawed and illegitimate, nor beyond critique. If thoughtful analysis of Israel and its people interests you, welcome! Click to read Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis, a Substack publicat
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“This is how we want to inherit the land of Israel? By spilling innocent blood?” asks one of Israel’s leading Orthodox rabbis...
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (655+ words) As the Jewish year draws to a close—a period intended for intense, and even uncomfortable, personal and national reflection begins. With that in mind, we open with a brief snippet of a longer conversation (that appeared on Israeli social…...
“I wish that I had hope, but it’s been destroyed.” A young Israeli woman reflects on her relationships with her Israeli Arab and American Jewish peers.
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (157+ words) It was around a Shabbat table a few weeks ago that today’s guest, Tamar Frank, and I got to talking. As we chatted, she shared her experiences in a program designed to build bridges between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews,…...
Is a different kind of Israeli religious leadership possible? Meet Rabbi Menachem Froman, z’l, and his biographer, Dr. Mordy Miller.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (220+ words) I mentioned in my column yesterday about the IDF soldiers who refused to enter an APC with a female paramedic that Israel is in desperate need of a moderate religious leadership. Was Rabbi Menachem Froman, z’l, “moderate”? That depends. But…...
"People who no longer live in Israel who are returning to vote have a lot of nerve."
3+ week, 3+ day ago (675+ words) Kalman Liebskind is an Israeli journalist who deserves to be better known outside Israel than he is. Several decades ago, he was one of the founding journalists at the Makor Rishon newspaper, to which we often point here in IFTI....
In just a few weeks, he could become the youngest Member of Knesset in Israel's history.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (314+ words) Walking into the Bennett headquarters in Ra’anana is exhilarating. One can favor the candidate, or not. One can plan to vote for the party, or not. But to see the energy, the optimism, the devotion to Israel and the huge…...
A new "Partition Plan"? Is Israel knowingly giving away the Galilee?
4+ week, 15+ hour ago (826+ words) Especially in these weeks leading to elections, the Israeli press is hard at work trying to shape the average voter’s sense of what is broken and what needs to be fixed. The center and the left point to all the…...