Uri Avnery
The Shas party has split into two. Opinion polls show that both parts are hovering around the 3.12% threshold which is now necessary for entering the Knesset, after the minimum was raised by the last Knesset
When I was 15 years old and a member of the Irgun underground (by today's criteria, an honest-to-goodness terrorist organization), we sang "(In the past) we had the heroes / Bar Kochba and the Maccabees / Now we have the new ones / The national youth'"
Almost a thousand Israeli personalities have already signed an appeal to European parliaments for their governments to recognize the State of Palestine
On Monday, the 19th Knesset voted to dissolve itself, less than two years after its election
Israelis are fed up with Binyamin Netanyahu. They are fed up with the government. They are fed up with all political parties. They are fed up with themselves. They are fed up
Ruvi Rivlin, who was recently elected to the high but largely ceremonial post, is far from being a leftist
In its long and checkered history, Jerusalem has been occupied by dozens of conquerors. Uri Avnery's weekly article
Kafr Kanna, a village near Nazareth, is probably the place where Jesus - according to the New Testament - turned water into wine. Now it is the Arab village where the Israeli police is turning stones into blood
If ISIS had approached the borders of Israel this week, nobody in the country would have noticed. Israel was riveted to a court-room drama
When a high-ranking official of one country calls the leader of another country "chickenshit", it may be assumed that the relations between the two countries are not at their best