JCall new Appeal : Ensuring democracy in Israel
In 2010, we launched The founding Appeal of JCall because, as European Jewish citizens, we were deeply concerned for Israel’s existence. We wrote that “underestimating the threats from its external enemies“ against Israel, “that danger also lies in the occupation…
Elections in Israel and United States : Democracy at stake
On November 1st, Israelis will go to the polls for the fifth time within three years and a half. One week later, it will be the turn of American voters to vote for the midterms, and to elect the 435…
Endless election
We remember the movie Groundhog Day where the hero is condemned each morning, when he wakes up, to live again the same day, being the only one to remember the events of the day before. The Israeli public seems to…
Towards a fifth round !
The Bennet-Lapid government will have lasted only one year. The continued attacks of the opposition led by the Likud in order to bring it down eventually paid off. A third deputee of the right-wing party Yamina, Nir Orbach, has defuncted…
The photo of the year and the one missing
Among all the Middle East photos we will remember from 2021, we chose the one showing Mansour Abbas, leader of the Islamic party Raam, signing with Naphtali Bennett and Yair Lapid the coalition agreement sealing for the first time the…
The coalition facing the Palestinian issue
Olive trees uprooted by settlers In 2010, we launched our JCall appeal with a main goal, that of making Jewish European citizens aware of the necessity of ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories in order to create a state…
A government of change ?
drawing from Kichka After a long summer break, we resume sending our newsletters. After flipping through the 17 newsletters issued the previous year, it appears that most of them dealt with the political crisis that has blocked Israel’s life for…
A new page opens
After two years and a half of political crisis and four elections that have all ended in Netanyahu’s failure to form a right wing government, Yair Lapid succeeded in obtaining the consent of 61 deputees in order to form a…