Raviv Drucker

Raviv Drucker presents HaMakor's investigation into the killing of three Israeli hostages by Israeli soldiers. (Screenshot)
The farce of Israel’s ‘liberal’ investigative journalism
A recent exposé on the killing of three hostages by Israeli soldiers highlights how even critical news programs form part of an architecture of public denial.
By Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown) May 22, 2026
Avigdor Liberman holds a press conference following the dissolving of the Knesset and ahead of the new elections, Tel Aviv, May 30, 2019. (Flash90)
Why are Israeli liberals suddenly courting a far-right nationalist?
Liberman’s political maneuvering may just bring about King Bibi’s downfall, but that doesn’t mean secular liberals should forget the reasons they opposed him all these years. Avigdor Liberman has, over the past decade, exerted a greater impact on Israel’s political discourse than any other lawmaker. In just a few years, he made once unthinkable ideas — such as…
By Edo Konrad May 30, 2019
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the owner the pro-Bibi newspaper, Israel Hayom, is seen embracing Benjamin Netanyahu. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Netanyahu: Attacking Israeli journalists on Facebook is ‘fun’
Netanyahu tells foreign journalists that using social media to attack local reporters is ‘the most entertaining.’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke honestly, perhaps for the first time, about what has been driving his recent attacks on Israeli journalists during a conference for members of the foreign press in Jerusalem Tuesday evening. During the Q&A session, one…
By Edo Konrad December 20, 2016
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Did Bibi’s patron newspaper just endorse Trump?
Pro-Netanyahu paper ‘Israel Hayom’ makes clear that Trump is the only candidate who isn’t afraid to go to war against ‘Islamic terror.’ If you happened to glance at Israel Hayom‘s front page on Monday, you may have noticed what look to be a brazen political endorsement. The top headline reads as follows: “Giuliani says: ‘Trump…
By Edo Konrad March 15, 2016
Right-wing Israeli settlers demonstrate after marching from Ma'aleh Adumim settlement to the E1 area on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem, during a protest calling for an expansion of Jewish settlements in E1, West Bank, February 13, 2014. (Activestills)
Israeli settlements have created a ‘state within a state’
Not only physical settler violence goes largely unpunished — the structural violence of those driving the settlement enterprise, in the form of open land theft and everything it entails, also goes largely unaddressed. What keeps the long arm of the law at bay? A primetime investigative news program revealed to all of Israel last week widespread…
By Natasha Soffer-Roth February 10, 2016
A Bedouin man confronts Israeli policemen during the destruction of the unrecognized village of Al-Araqib (photo: Activestills)
Why is JNF UK throwing a Bedouin-themed party?
The JNF has played a fundamental role in the displacement of the villagers of al-Araqib, an unrecognized Bedouin village that Israeli authorities demolished for the 90th time last week. Later this month the organization is holding a ‘Bedouin Night’ party in London. The Jewish National Fund in the United Kingdom (JNF UK) will be hosting a…
By Edo Konrad November 10, 2015
And Israel border policeman outside the Abu Khdeir home in Shuafat, East Jerusalem Sept. 7, 2014 (Photo: Tamar Fleishman)
Investigation of Abu Khdeir murder tainted by racism, police incompetence
Between shoddy work and a culture of racism toward Palestinians, it is no wonder that the police failed to prevent the brutal murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir. On Wednesday night, Israel’s Channel 10 broadcast a one-hour investigative report that delves deeply into the circumstances surrounding the murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Last July three Jewish Israelis,…
By Lisa Goldman November 13, 2014
Israeli police arrest a protester during the second day of protests that followed the kidnapping and murder of a Palestinian teenager, East Jerusalem, July 3, 2014. (Photo by Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Activestills.org)
Israeli police are exacerbating the violence with gag orders
Journalist Raviv Drucker takes Israeli police to task for failing to keep the public informed about its investigation into the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir of Shuafat, in East Jerusalem. The corpse of the 16-year-old Palestinian boy was discovered in the Jerusalem Forest three days ago, about an hour after CCTV cameras recorded his abduction…
By Lisa Goldman July 5, 2014
Ongoing construction work in the Pisgat Ze'ev settlement in East Jerusalem, as seen from the Anata neighborhood on August 29, 2012. Under international law, all of the new Jewish neighborhood established by Israel after 1967 are deemed to be illegal and supposedly to be "removed" as a prelude to a peace agreement. In the meantime, residents of Anata complain of having lost a lot of land and access to the hill on which this neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev is built, although they add that several local families have actually moved to the settlement in order to find themselves on the right side of the Separation Wall, and avoid having to go through a checkpoint several times a day. (photo: JC/Activestills.org)
The Jewish National Fund’s list of projects in the settlements
On its website, The Jewish National Fund (JNF-KKL) presents itself as an environmental friendly non-governmental organization, with deep roots in Zionist history. The JNF often leads supporters and donors to believe that it does not fund projects in the occupied territories, which are highly controversial even among Zionists. In the past, the JNF used sub-contractors for projects across the…
By Noam Sheizaf May 4, 2014
Tzipi Livni (photo: Yotam Ronen / activestills)
On the collapse of the Kerry talks: The ‘outrageous hypocrisy’ of Tzipi Livni & Yair Lapid
Raviv Drucker is a prominent Israeli journalist and political analyst with his own program (co-hosted) on Channel 10 News. He’s one of my favorites, because he’s supremely well informed, doesn’t suffer fools (gladly or otherwise) and back in the day was generous with his knowledge toward novice journalists who speak Hebrew with a weird accent (could…
By Lisa Goldman April 4, 2014
Emmanuel Rosen, a top Israeli news personality. Rosen has been accused of sexually harassing his female employees. (photo: The 7th Eye, http://www.the7eye.org.il)
The paralyzing rage of sexual harassment
For the last 10 days I have not been able to think of the occupation or political mini-dramas of the new government. I read the New York Times every morning, but I can hardly recall the headlines. Even, god help me, the butchery in Syria and now the Israeli involvement seem further from my heart…
By Dahlia Scheindlin May 7, 2013
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