Publications

A new publication about Israeli Foreign Policy in 2020

The author gives numerous explanations for the decline range of the Israeli left: from what might be called a primordial approach – a deeply nationalist and perhaps ultimately illiberal nature of the Israeli political culture – to a historic focus on the failure of the peace process with the Palestinians from the 1990s.

In recent years, the idea of annexation of some parts or the entire West Bank has gained growing popularity in Israeli mainstream politics. During the three election campaigns of 2019 and 2020, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to promote such an annexation if re-elected into office.

The Corona epidemic, which led to a contraction in economic activity, met with already existing social and economic gender inequalities

“Annexation" has been an idea entertained by, flirted with, and used as leverage by Israel essentially since immediately after the Six Days War in 1967.

“The airport was in my childish imagination the perfect junction of life and death. At that place – that is called the terminal as I later learned – it seems that the soul goes through another transformation, taking off shoes and a belt and a jacket in favor of a pass into another world that comes to her. The soul is flying, in paths which were determined for it from the open field, and then experiences an end, another…