Conference Tuesday February 15 at 7p.m. (French time) We remember former Prime Minister Golda Meir joking with her German counterpart, complaining that « Moses took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the only spot…
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…
JLink’s Letter to Benny Gantz, Minister of Defense
26 October 2021 Dear Minister Benny Gantz, J-Link, a broad international network of progressive Jewish organizations, approached you in May 2020, then as Chairman of the Knesset, to express our opposition to the proposed annexation of parts of the West…
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…
After the cease-fire
After 11 days of war, Hamas and Israel accepted a cease-fire that put an end to this new round of violence, the sixth one since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. It took the personal involvement of President…
Political blockade in the Knesset – season 4
drawing by Biderman Haaretz On April 5th, President Rivlin received the delegations of the 13 lists that crossed the minimum electoral threshhold, in order to ask them which candidate they chose to form the new government, following the fourth round…
Israeli election : Will the fourth round be the right one?
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Could we apply Einstein’s quote to the electoral situation in Israel ? In less than two weeks, Israelis will go back to the polls for the fourth…
Bibi or not Bibi
Drawing from Biderman in Ha’aretz. It is written on the sign : “I am the 4000th dead” In two months, Israel will vote again for the fourth time in two years. This new election will cost billions shekels, while the…
From one election to the next
Donald Trump needed more than 3 weeks to admit Joe Biden’s victory, and even so, he keeps saying that the election had been fraudulent, which none of the investigations conducted so far has confirmed. If Biden’s victory is undisputable on…
Our Challenge for 2019: Pursuing Amos Oz’s Commitments
In order ro convey a sense of history, it is always a good thing to look back. A year ago, at the start of 2018, our New Year’s mail was entitled: “New year, new challenges”. One year later, this challenges…
Facing antisemitism: miss nothing
We are witnessing now a widespread increase of antisemitism in the world. It would be irresponsible to ignore it. Since JCall’s creation in 2010, we have always been alert to that situation. Fighting for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement based on the…
There are still judges in Jerusalem !
On October 18th, the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to allow Lara Alqasem, a young American student of Palestinian origin, to enter Israel in order to complete her year of study at the University of Jerusalem, was a triumph of reason…
We won’t give up !
According to the Jewish tradition, we usually say on Rosh Hashana’s eve: « May the year end with its curses and begin with its blessings. » In fact, the past year has been deeply worrisome for all those who are, like…