Meron Rapoport

Meron Rapoport is an editor at Local Call.

Recent Articles

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz and parliament member Moshe Ya'alon during a visit in Vered Yeriho observation point, in the Judean Desert, January 21, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Go ahead, annex the West Bank

The annexation of the Jordan Valley would officially make Israel an apartheid state from the river to the sea. But that may not be as terrible as we think.

By Meron Rapoport January 23, 2020

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants an olive tree at the Netiv Ha'avot neighborhood in Gush Etzion, West Bank, January 28, 2019. (Marc Israel Selem/Flash90)

Netanyahu wants to turn annexation into his lasting legacy

Nothing would make Netanyahu happier than watching his successor continue to thwart a Palestinian state — even if Bibi has to watch it from the window of his prison cell.

By Meron Rapoport December 5, 2019

A Jewish Israeli man holding an Israeli flag confronts a Palestinian woman holding a kaffiyeh on the sidelines of the ultra-nationalist "Jerusalem Day" march, May 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish-Arab partnership as an antidote to Jewish supremacism

We need to redefine Israeli politics. No more left and right, liberal or conservative, religious versus secular. Instead: a new partnership of Arabs and Jews, working side-by-side to combat Jewish supremacism. By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury Israel has been at a political dead end for many months, particularly since the most recent national election…

By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury October 30, 2019