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People walk through Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market, partially closed following ongoing missile attacks from Iran, June 23, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Is Israel’s genocide economy on the brink?
Economist Shir Hever explains how the Gaza war mobilization propped up a ‘zombie economy’ that appears to function but lacks any future horizon.
By Amos Brison December 16, 2025
Israeli soldiers seen on the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, December 3, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
The Israeli army is facing its biggest refusal crisis in decades
Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the war’s waning legitimacy.
By Meron Rapoport April 11, 2025
Palestinian and Israeil flags (Activestills)
What Israelis really mean when we talk about the Left
It is a shameful lie to make opposition to 47-year military rule an issue of supporters or traitors of Israel. The war in Gaza yielded a large crop of articles about Liberal Zionism. Suddenly numerous authors felt an urgent need to reject, redefine, defend or deconstruct a term that the vast majority of Israelis have…
By Dahlia Scheindlin October 12, 2014
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An Israeli tank is seen before entering the Gaza Strip near Israel's border with the Gaza strip on July 24, 2014 (photo: Activestills)
IDF reservist sentenced to military prison for refusing draft
Update: The reservist has since decided to expose his identity. He is Gilad Halpern; the name has been updated here. An IDF reservist was arrested at Ben Gurion Airport Wednesday upon returning to Israel after fleeing call-up orders to serve in Operation Protective Edge. He was later sentenced to 21 days in military prison. Gilad…
By Dahlia Scheindlin August 9, 2014
Israeli tanks on the Israel-Gaza border. (photo: Activestills.org)
Who are the Israelis refusing the call of Protective Edge?
On Saturday evening, another anti-war demonstration was held in Tel Aviv. A few hundred people marched and chanted and hoped that rumors of a drawdown were true. With minimal numbers and attention, the demonstrations have had little impact. But there doesn’t seem much else that those opposed to the war can do. Soldiers and reservists…
By Dahlia Scheindlin August 4, 2014
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