The phrase “two Jews, three opinions,” in addition to being a stale cliché, aptly describes a phenomenon thoroughly uninteresting: distinctive communities, even...
As of this writing, 60 Palestinian demonstrators who either approached or charged the fence separating Gaza and Israel on Monday were killed by the IDF. Acc...
One overlooked aspect of Benjamin Netanyahu's last minute victory leap in the 2015 election is that it could’ve been an even more decisive victory for the right...
To begin with what should be a frank acknowledgement of the obvious: a decisive portion of Israel’s electorate, like that of the United States and many other co...
One common lament of the Trump era is the populist backlash against expertise; it is the subject of a popular book by the political scientist Tom Nichols and mu...
Two weeks ago, I wrote that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be evincing incompetence if he did not facilitate an early election. Now that an election ha...
There is little use in making precise predictions in Israeli politics. The incredible volatility, combined with the sheer number of stakeholders, presents a pot...
Two years ago, opposition leader Isaac Herzog presented what he saw as an innovative alternative to both the status quo and the increasingly unpopular two-state...
At the beginning of the month, Jeremy Saltan, the Bayit Yehudi staffer who runs the popular Knesset Insider blog, summarized a few interesting surveys that illu...
Last month, I co-authored an opinion piece in the New York Times critical of the Labor Party's chairman, Avi Gabbay. As is well known to most Israel watchers, G...
Abe Silberstein is a Contributing Writer for IPF's Matzav. His work on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations has appeared in Ha'aretz, The Forward, The Jerusalem Post, and +972 Magazine. He lives in New York City.
