Israeli politics

A 9 Days conversation with Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz

The Israeli Judicial Reform protests come the same week 18 years after the Gush Katif protests and 2,000 years after the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. What can we learn from Tisha B’Av and the Nine Days about modern Jewish and Israeli unity? Sometimes the echoes of history are so loud that they…

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TJS S5E9 The Upheaval Election of Menachem Begin in 1977

There are few events in the history of Israel’s democracy which have had a greater impact than the elections of 1977. When all the votes were counted three decades of Labor Zionist rule had come to an end and Menachem Begin and his Likud party was victorious. It is known in Israeli history as ‘the…

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