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A billboard put up by the far-right Israel Victory Project in Tel Aviv shows blindfolded Palestinian leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Abbas. The caption reads: 'Peace is made with defeated enemies.' (Oren Ziv)

Yes, Israel wants peace — after it gets rid of the Palestinians

Billboards posted across Tel Aviv showing Palestinian leaders blindfolded and on their knees reveals what many Israelis think.

By Orly Noy February 17, 2020

President Shimon Peres visits an Israeli police counter-terrorism unit in 2011. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

+972 Magazine’s 20 most-read posts of 2016

From Shimon Peres’ dark side to Donald Trump at AIPAC to Airbnb in settlements, here are the most popular articles we published this past year. By +972 Magazine Staff 20. Why I had to leave Israel’s Foreign Ministry As a former Israeli ambassador, Ilan Baruch never expected just how badly the country’s situation would deteriorate, with the…

By +972 Magazine December 23, 2016

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai (Photo by Activestills.org)

Tel Aviv mayor says the occupation is a cause of Palestinian terror

Huldai tells Army Radio that Israel may be the ‘only country in the world holding another nation under occupation without civil rights.’ Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai shocked many Israelis Thursday morning when he cited Israel’s occupation as one factor that leads Palestinians to turn to terrorism. Speaking on Army Radio about Wednesday’s deadly shooting attack…

By Edo Konrad June 9, 2016

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Israeli police seen at a restaurant in Sarona Market following the shooting attack that left four Israelis dead, central Tel Aviv, June 8, 2016. (photo: Israel Police Spokesperson)

After Tel Aviv attack, what is going back to business as usual?

Having a daily routine to go back to that is free of violence is a privilege that most Israelis have and most Palestinians do not. I was out last night in Tel Aviv at a poetry book launch for a good friend when the news flashed on my phone that there was a shooting in…

By Mairav Zonszein June 9, 2016

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat stands by a Palestinian resident of the city. (photo: Activestills.org)

Tel Aviv, Jerusalem mayors keep posts; right-wing populists register successes

The municipal elections in Israel yesterday brought no major surprises. In the most interesting political fight this year, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat beat Atty. Moshe Lion, whose candidacy was backed by Shas’s Aryeh Deri and former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman. The defeat has implications for the political futures of both politicians: Deri is weaker without…

By Noam Sheizaf October 23, 2013

From left to right: MK Hanin Zoabi, Jerusalem Mayor Ron Barkat, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai (photo: Activestills/U.S. Embassy)

Why are Jerusalem leftists voting for a pro-settlement mayor?

Over 5 million Israelis have the right to vote in the municipal elections today. National politics are not as directly reflected in municipal polls as they were in the past – when Likud and Labor used those as platform for securing their parties’ political machines (plus, there just isn’t much of a competition in the…

By Noam Sheizaf October 22, 2013

Israelis voting in the 2013 Knesset elections (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills)

Tel Aviv’s mayoral race: Time for a Mizrahi candidate

The Mizrahi Jewish community is Israel’s largest ethnic group, and its historic links to the Middle East, along with its class position make it a critical component in any revolutionary coalition. Thus, running a Mizrahi candidate will be a clear sign to the residents of south Tel Aviv that they are a central priority. By…

By Haokets May 21, 2013

Policeman and attack dog watch over African workers emptying asylum seeker's store (Oren Ziv / Activestills)

Municipal authorities raid and shutter asylum seekers’ businesses in Tel Aviv

Dozens of Tel Aviv municipal officers, border policemen and private movers raided several businesses run by African asylum seekers around Tel Aviv’s central bus station, confiscating goods and welding the doors shut. Officials also poured bleach into food in a Darfur refugee’s restaurant. Is city hall preparing for the upcoming municipal elections? A group of…

By Haggai Matar May 12, 2013

MK Nitzan Horowitz (photo: Moshe Shai / CC-BY 3.0)

Will Tel Aviv have its first openly gay mayor?

Meretz MK announces plans to challenge Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s 15-year mayor. Though he faces difficult odds, Horowitz has a legitimate chance to become the first openly gay mayor of any Israeli city. Knesset Member Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) on Monday announced his intention to run in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipal elections, due to take place on October…

By Noam Sheizaf May 6, 2013

Shalom, tower. A visit to Tel Aviv’s historic skyscraper

In the innocent year of 1909, a new Jewish neighborhood was established on the outskirts of Jaffa. A modest crossing of two streets, it was designed according to distinctly secular Jewish values. At its focal point, just north of the intersection stood not a synagogue but a high school. It was an elaborate, romantic structure. Its…

By Yuval Ben-Ami April 12, 2013

Kedem St in Ajami overlooking the beach (Mati Milstein)

Arabs and Jews come together to oppose gentrification in Jaffa

About 100 residents of Jaffa — Arabs and Jews — came together on Friday afternoon to protest a city plan that threatens to change the character of their neighborhood. The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality master plan for all Jaffa includes construction of a 15-meter multi-lane road on Kedem Street in Ajami, between the Jaffa Port and…

By Mairav Zonszein November 11, 2012

Palestinians in Israel reject Pride Week but offer alternatives

Due to the influx of gay tourists who arrived in Tel Aviv for Pride Week, we can say with some certainty that more Belgians and Danes marched in the Gay Pride Parade than Palestinian citizens of Israel. That’s not just because of the understandable need for the gay Arab population to maintain a low profile.…

By Yuval Ben-Ami June 11, 2012

Will this Eritrean refugee be banned from Tel Aviv buses? (photo: flickr/Activestills)

TA councilman calls for separate buses for ‘smelly’ foreigners

A Tel Aviv city councilman is appealing to the state to allocate separate buses for African refugees and migrant workers, according to an article published on Mynet on Thursday Last week, Tel Aviv City Councilman Binyamin Babayoff (Shas) sent a letter to Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, Minister of Transportation Israel Katz, and Dr. Moshe…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat February 18, 2012