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Syrian Druze head towards the border fence to pick up people crossing from the Israeli side, in the Syrian Jawlan, July 16, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

‘I haven’t been here in 40 years’: Emotional reunions as Druze cross Israel-Syria fence

After a protest breached the Jawlan barrier, Druze from both sides rushed to see relatives as police stood by — a glimpse of what the land was and could be.

By Oren Ziv July 18, 2025

Palestinian women wait to cross Qalandiya checkpoint as an Israeli security officer stands guard outside the West Bank city of Ramallah August 28, 2009. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

The law tearing Palestinian families apart

The controversial Citizenship Law is supposedly about maintaining Israel’s security. In reality, it’s a tool to engineer Israel’s population.

By Samah Salaime July 2, 2021

Palestinians cross the Qalandiya checkpoint, outside of the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 17, 2016 (Photo by Flash90).

Israel is making it impossible for foreign nationals to live in the West Bank

The new policy has devastating consequences, not only on family life in the occupied territories, but also for the Palestinian economy. By Yotam Ben-Hillel Over the past year and a half, Israel has pursued a policy which aims to keep foreign nationals out of the West Bank. This policy affects everyone: partners of Palestinian residents of…

By +972 Magazine August 17, 2018

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Thousands of Israeli Jews wave flags as they mark Jerusalem Day in Damascus Gate on their way to the Western Wall, East Jerusalem, May 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The slow death of Israeli citizenship

As the Right consolidates its power over nearly every sphere of Israeli politics, it is slowly turning citizenship into a matter of ideology. Non-Jewish citizens aren’t the only ones who will suffer. By Marzuq Al-Halabi The concept of citizenship in Israel has always suffered from significant inadequacies, whether due to the Law of Return or to…

By +972 Magazine October 15, 2017

Israeli Border police officers corral Palestinians as they wait to cross from Qalandiya checkpoint outside Ramallah, West Bank, into Jerusalem, July 26, 2013. (Photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Can America avoid falling into the Israel trap?

If Israel can teach American liberals anything, it’s that they cannot afford to rest on their laurels. The case of Israel demonstrates that fear-mongering and tribalism can easily prop up an oppressive and racist regime for decades. It is not uncommon for Israeli authorities to detain, interrogate and deport tourists of Arab or Palestinian descent,…

By Noa Yachot February 9, 2017

Retired Israel Justice Edmond Levy's record reveals a state bound by the vision of full civic equality for all (Photo: Eyal Warshavsky)

Edmond Levi: Israel’s one-state justice

Retired Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levi was always considered a ‘conservative’ and ‘rightwing’ judge – but a closer reading of his verdicts reveals the constitutional basis for a ‘one state justice.’ By Itamar Mann Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levi issued his last opinion in January 2012, before retiring. In an important case, the Court upheld…

By +972 Magazine February 24, 2012

Inconvenient truths. Netanyahu speaking to the Jewish Agency. (Photo: Jewish Agency for Israel, cc by-nd 2.0)

Women’s exclusion comes from the top

Behind the rhetorical condemnations of women’s exclusion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz are at least partially responsible for women’s exclusion. Discrimination and marginalization of women in the public sphere has been fermenting for years as a direct result of Israeli policies – or lack thereof. By Gil Gan Mor Israel’s political…

By +972 Magazine January 2, 2012