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Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 23, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers

Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.

By Hila Amit January 7, 2026

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

Palestinian and Israeil flags (Activestills)

An Israeli-Palestinian confederation? Not so fast

A new initiative seeks to find a new, creative way to solve the conflict. The only problem? It forgets about equality. By Yuval Eylon The latest hit in the peace plan business comes from “Two States One Homeland,” an initiative that eschews both the two-state solution and the one-state solution, instead envisioning a confederation between…

By +972 Magazine June 19, 2016

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Police arrest a Palestinian-Israeli protester during a demonstration against Operation Protective Edge, July 18, 2014, Haifa, Israel (photo: Activestills)

The day they strip me of my citizenship

When the deputy interior minister demands Palestinian citizens renounce our citizenship, he only exposes the true nature of the Israeli state. After all, without us there is no ‘only democracy in the Middle East.’ We, the rowdy Arabs who live in the democratic state of the Jewish people, formally apologize for disrupting a Knesset plenum…

By Samah Salaime June 28, 2015

Arab youth clash with Israeli riot police in Kafr Kanna, Israel, November 8, 2014. The protests took place after an Arab man from the village was shot and killed by Israeli policemen. (Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Kafr Kanna isn’t Ferguson, it’s much worse

Imagine that at the peak of the Ferguson protests, President Obama — or any other American official — had issued a formal statement threatening to revoke the citizenship of African Americans who chose not to keep their mouths shut. By Seraj Assi and Lawrence McMahon Israeli police shot dead a young Arab citizen in the…

By +972 Magazine November 14, 2014

MK Hanin Zoabi (photo: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

What Yair Lapid’s anti-Zoabi comments reveal about Israeli politics

It is not considered racist in Israel to discriminate against 20 percent of the population and the millions more living in the occupied West Bank. It is considered the self-determination of the Jewish people. The few words Yair Lapid said to the press the day after the election that made his Yesh Atid party the…

By Mairav Zonszein January 26, 2013

Blue ID Teudat Zehut (Photo: Dahlia Scheindlin)

Quietly, East Jerusalem Palestinians acquiring Israeli citizenship

There has been a trend in recent years of Palestinian permanent residents of East Jerusalem applying for – and getting – Israeli citizenship. Will this trend provide freedom, or further fragment Palestinian national identity? By Riman Barakat Today marks the 45th anniversary of what Palestinians and the international community refer to as the illegal annexation of…

By +972 Magazine May 20, 2012