Today Israel celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary. Like every year, Yom Haatsmaut close this parenthesis loaded with symbols, calling for national unity rather than partisan divisions. It started with the Passover seder evening, where Jews gather with their families to remember…
“To save the Israeli democracy” recording of the conference
Recording of the conference, we had organized in the European Parliament on March 27th with the Jewish Secular Community Center of Brussels (CCLJ David Susskind). with the participation of : – Elie Barnavi, historian, former Israeli ambassador in France –…
To save the Israeli democracy
Just two months after the establishment of the 6th Netanyahu government, Israel has never been so divided. For more than a month, week after week, hundreds of thousands of Israelis, refusing to see their country change its regime, have been…
Call to reason 2, JCall 2010-2023
The Israeli liberal democracy is undermined. The sixth Netanyahu government represents more than a simple transfer of power in a normal parliamentary democracy ; it is the assertion of a willingness to change the regime. On the Palestinian side, coalition agreements…
Conference from the European Parliament “To save the Israeli democracy”
To attend the conference “To save the Israeli democracy” we organize jointly with the Jewish secular community centre (CCLJ) at the European Parliament on Monday March 27th, you have to click to this link https://ep.interactio.eu/q-dnp-4uhs-5e9c You will be able to…
Neither a state of the Jews nor a state of the Israelis
“Will we then have a theocracy? No: faith makes us united, science makes us free. We will by no means allow the theocratic ambitions of some of our rabbis to take hold: we will be able to keep them tightly…
Israel and Palestine: conflict and coexistence
Amos Oz, the great Israeli writer, argued in a commentary a few years ago that to put an end to the conflict gripping the two peoples a political agreement that would resolve the key issues – borders between the two…
Degradation of the security situation in a climate of protest
Once again, an attack has striken Israel. At the entrance of Shabbat, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem shot at the faithful going out of a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, a Jewish neighbourhood built in East Jerusalem during the seventies, leaving…
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…