Writer and critic Kobi Niv (Haaretz, 13 March 2018) is of the view that the documentary series Saleh, This is the Land of Israel is “excellent”, but at the same time “suffers from reading comprehension”. Niv argues that the series is deeply frustrating. By this, he refers to the types of reaction to
In Modern Barbarism, an article he published on his personal blog, Idan Landau, Israeli linguistics professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Bir Saba’ city, argues that modern “barbarianism/savagery is the old one, but without shame!” Landau presents particularly recent models, which
“The weird, rather abnormal, context of the international parliamentary arena shows the complete absence of any examination or review of international foreign affairs,” Nitzan Horowitz, former MK for Meretz, stated in a new study published by the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies (Mitvim). The study was released under the title Our Back on the World: Why does the Israeli Knesset Ignore Foreign Affairs?
Released in mid February 2018, a document of the Knesset Research and Information Centre reviews data on the “violent crimes” reported by citizens to police stations. Compiled at the request of MK Aida Touma-Suleiman from the Joint List, the document includes a breakdown of the data into “Jewish population” and “non-Jewish population” (hereinafter, the “Arab”, to call things by their proper names). The document covers the period from 2014 towards the first half of 2017.
It is hard to dissociate oneself from a general impression that the rapid developments of investigations into suspicions of corruption, which involve Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have tightened the grip on, and sent a strong signal of the beginning of the end of his political career. A major portion of this issue of the Israeli Scene is dedicated to tackling this issue. Perhaps the most notable is the strong signal of the former