Ron Weiser

In the battle between Russia and Ukraine, the Western world and most democracies, see the situation in black and white terms.

Some years ago, I heard the head of an Israeli think tank say, that Jewish life is a constant tension between two, often clashing, narratives. The continuity of Jewish values – and the value of Jewish continuity.

Whilst Covid arguably brought Israeli Arabs and Jews closer together by shared experiences via the medical system and the resultant much greater general mixing of the two populations, Covid is having the opposite effect on Israel and Diaspora Jewry, where the gap is widening.

For the first time in three years the State of Israel has a budget… it promises sweeping changes to many areas of life including: in the cost of living…

Prime Minister Bennett has now been in office for three months and the sky has not fallen. In fact what is remarkable is that in the macro, regarding many of the continuing challenges, the modalities for dealing with them also remain plus/minus the same. Other than in...

This Israeli government coalition of eight different parties with a wide variety of ideologies, has already had to weather numerous challenges.