Category Archives: Israeli Society

A non-solution to a non-crisis

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Victor Rosenthal

If you are an Israeli, do you feel smug that the neurotic politics of political correctness and victimology that lately are so prevalent in the USA are rare in Israel? Are you pleased to think that most Israelis are not … Continue reading →

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Who gets to block traffic in Israel?

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Victor Rosenthal

Examples of how Israelis get things done when they really care: Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem is embroiled in a controversy over its Pediatric Hemato-oncology department (which treats children suffering from leukemia and other forms of cancer), in which 6 doctors … Continue reading →

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Behind the struggle for the Kotel

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Victor Rosenthal

The kotel hama’aravi (Western Wall) is not actually the holiest place in Judaism – that is the Temple Mount, the actual site of the First and Second Temples – but for various reasons it has become the holiest place at … Continue reading →

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Being the nation-state of the Jewish people

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Victor Rosenthal

In April of this year, the UN released the 2017 World Happiness Report. Using polling data collected by the Gallup organization, it ranked 156 countries in the world in order of how happy with their lives respondents said they were, … Continue reading →

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Israel must put terrorist murderers to death

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Victor Rosenthal

This isn’t the first time I’ve written this, and it won’t be the last unless something changes. Marwan Barghouti is in the news again, calling for a hunger strike to “resist” the “abuse” of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. The New … Continue reading →

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No hope for slanderers

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Victor Rosenthal

…ולמלשינים אל תהי תקווה וכל הרשעה כרגע יאבדו “Let there be no hope for slanderers (מלשינים, transliterated “malshinim”) and may all wickedness perish in an instant…” [tr. Artscroll with minor changes] That is the beginning of the twelfth blessing of … Continue reading →

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The “Soldier who Shot” is sentenced

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Victor Rosenthal

On Tuesday, a military court pronounced sentence on Sgt. Elor Azaria, called in Israel’s media “the soldier who shot in Hevron.” Azaria was convicted of manslaughter after he put a bullet into the head of an Arab terrorist who had … Continue reading →

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Sovereignty is the only solution

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Victor Rosenthal

Hope will grow out of this difficult day and we will build a new community after the demolition of Amona’s homes. Out of the wreckage of Amona we will build children’s playgrounds throughout Judea and Samaria. As a result of … Continue reading →

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