Category Archives: Israeli Politics

How Israel Could Get a Stable Government

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Victor Rosenthal

The challenges facing the state today are enormous. Although the vaccination project has been a success, the more-contagious mutations are spreading among groups that haven’t been vaccinated, and there are worries that new strains for which the vaccines aren’t as … Continue reading →

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The Netanyahu Tragedy

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Victor Rosenthal

Binyamin Netanyahu was one of Israel’s greatest leaders. No more. Within the past year he has begun to take decisions based on his personal interests, even when they may conflict with the needs of the nation. The last (unnecessary) election … Continue reading →

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Israel’s Awful Electoral System

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Recently I’ve struggled with some technical issues on one of my computers. It’s always a similar process: there is a small problem, but there is supposed to be a solution. Unfortunately the solution doesn’t work, but there is a solution … Continue reading →

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Good Morning, Here is the News from Israel

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

The first batch of Pfizer Corona-virus vaccine landed in Israel yesterday. PM Netanyahu announced that he will be the first to get it, live on television, in order to build public confidence. Although it’s impossible to get Covid from it, … Continue reading →

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Which is Worse, Influenza or Affluenza?

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

What do I read during an epidemic? What else but books about epidemics, like John M. Barry’s “The Great Influenza,” about the catastrophic 1918 pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The 1918 disease, incorrectly called “Spanish flu,” … Continue reading →

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Closing Israel’s Political Circus

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Today the State of Israel is squeezed between a public health emergency and political paralysis. All we’re missing is a security crisis. We’d better hope we don’t get one. In the past few days the number of new Coronavirus cases … Continue reading →

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Israel’s PM and Government Should Resign Today

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

I’m not looking forward to writing this, or to reading the responses that I will surely get from various quarters. But here it is. The Breslov Hasidim venerate Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810), a kabbalist, scholar, and founder of a … Continue reading →

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Who on Earth is Dana Ron, and the Beirut Explosion

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

The longer I live here, the more I understand how different Israel is from my former home, the USA. There are elements of Middle East culture, unsurprising since about half of all Jewish Israelis are descended from immigrants from the … Continue reading →

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