The 30-Year Olmert Government
Edited transcript of the Eidelberg Report, Israel National Radio, November 26, 2007. Since the Camp David Summit of 1978, Israel has had no less than...
Category : Government Branches
The Need to Restrain Israel’s Supreme Court
Eminent persons across political spectrum in Israel—judges, academics, and lawyers—have said that Israel’s Supreme Court, especially under its former President Aharon Barak, has exceeded its...
A Political Dictionary for Israelis and Immigrants: Part I
A. Democracy: Two Types “Normative” or classical democracy: based on the idea of man’s creation in the holy image of God. This provides democracy’s basic...
Torah Government versus Israeli Democracy
Part I: Kingship Although Israelis may not merit a Torah government, I will show that a Torah government, with its king and Sanhedrin, is more...
The War Between Jews and Jews
The Babylonian Talmud (Pesachim 49b) states that Jewish ignoramuses are greater anti-Semites than gentiles. The Zohar (Exodus 7b) declares that in the “end of days,”...
מלחמת היהודים ביהודים
מאת: פרופ’ פול איידלברג בתלמוד הבבלי (מס’ פסחים דף מט ע’ ב’) כתוב כי שנאתם של עמי-ארצות לתלמידי חכמים גדולה משנאתם של גויים את עם...
Why the Knesset Tolerates Judicial Imperialism—Postscript
The Knesset has welcomed the appointment of Supreme Court critic Prof. Daniel Friedman as justice minister. The members of the Knesset will now have their...
Why the Knesset Tolerates Judicial Imperialism
Part I At the risk of offending religious people, I am going to argue in Part II of this essay that Israel’s religious parties have...
A Perfidious Ruling of Israel’s Supreme Court
On December 12, 2006, Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled that Palestinian residents of the “West Bank” and Gaza could file lawsuits against Israel for...
A Dangerous and Personalized System of Government
The cabinet will soon vote on Avigdor Lieberman’s government reform bill. It is a dangerous bill tailored to Lieberman’s personal ambitions. The chairman of Israel...