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IDI promotes discourse between people who hold a plethora of different political opinions. Needless to say, each IDI member holds his/her own opinions, which they are free to promote. Below are links to Op-Eds written by IDI's Arye Carmon, Mordechai Kremnitzer, Yedidia Stern, Momi Dahan, and others. The opinions expressed in the articles below are the authors’ own personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect those of the Israel Democracy Institute.
A recent addition to this page are video interviews with IDI leadership and scholars, as well as leading researchers and public figures who will be speaking at IDI events. For easy access to all video interviews, click here.
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Op-Eds and Video Interviews
As Israel awaits several audit reports from the State Comptroller's office and the media reports that those audits will ascribe personal responsibility to certain officials, IDI President Dr. Arye Carmon takes issue with outgoing Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss for overstepping the bounds of his authority for excessive media presence, in this op-ed from Yediot Achronot.
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| Publishing date: | 1/30/2012 |
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Israeli society has seen a recent push to exclude women from the public sphere. In the past months, religious soldiers have refused to remain in IDF ceremonies during which female soldiers sing, women have been relegated to the back of public buses in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods buses, and billboards with pictures of women have been defaced in Jerusalem. In this blog entry, translated from the Hebrew, IDI Senior Researcher Yair Sheleg, argues against the recent turn toward extremism, calling on Israelis from all camps to respond to these developments responsibly.
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| Publishing date: | 1/24/2012 |
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In an op-ed from Haaretz, which was published on January 22, 2012 alongside an op-ed by Benny Katzover on the relative importance of Jewish and democratic values in the State of Israel, IDI Senior researcher Yair Sheleg reflects on the inherent tension between Israel’s Jewish and democratic nature. He argues that Israel need not prefer one of the two ends of this spectrum, and should view its Jewish and democratic nature as two manifestations of human dignity.
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| Publishing date: | 1/19/2012 |
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In this op-ed from Globes, IDI President Dr. Arye Carmon responds to journalist Yair Lapid's entry into politics. While he applauds the entrance of talented, committed people into politics, Dr. Carmon stresses the need for them to join one of the large, existing parties in order to stabilize the political system and strengthen the two major party blocs.
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| Publishing date: | 1/18/2012 |
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In an op-ed originally published in The Jerusalem Post, IDI Vice President Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer and Attorney Lina Saba discuss the administrative restraining orders recently issued against 12 Jewish activists involved in "price tag" activity in Judea and Samaria.
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| Publishing date: | 1/15/2012 |
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The issue of the exclusion of women and their marginalization in Israeli society has dominated the media in Israel during the past few weeks. In this article, which was originally published in The Seventh Eye on December 25, 2011, Dr. Debora Lederman-Danieli argues that the media's struggle against the phenomenon of the degradation of women requires much more than disingenuous, populist outcries.
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| Publishing date: | 1/11/2012 |
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Why is the marginalization of women on the rise in Israeli society? In this op-ed from Yediot Achronot, IDI Vice President of Research Prof. Yedidia Stern focuses on the religious Zionist community and explains why the exclusion of women is an expression of a power struggle to determine who will control the public sphere and the particular space of the religious community.
On January 2, 2012, the "Bar Association Bill," which would change the way that the Bar Association's representatives to the Judicial Appointments Committee are selected, was approved by the Knesset's Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee for its second and third plenum votes. In this op-ed, Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer and Attorney Amir Fuchs explain why they see this bill—and especially its retroactive application—as undermining the rule of law.
On January 2, 2012, the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approved the "Bar Association Bill" for its final readings in the Knesset, despite concerns raised by the Attorney General's office and the Committee's own legal advisor. Read the ad that IDI published in Haaretz on January 3, 2012, IDI calling on Prime Minister Netanyahu to reconsider this bill.
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| Publishing date: | 12/11/2011 |
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| Category: | Video Interviews, Op-Eds |
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In honor of International Democracy Day, the IDI website interviewed Dr. Hannah Kehat, founder of the Religious Women's Forum Kolech, on the status of women in Israel today. Watch the Hebrew interview or read the translated excerpt.
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