Today’s Good News weekend post will more or less write itself with the glorious news that Labour was thoroughly trounced by the Conservatives in the British General Election yesterday. Boris Johnson led the Conservatives to their best result since Margaret Thatcher, while Labour under Jeremy Corbyn suffered their greatest defeat …
Read More »Good News Weekend – Israel.
We’ve had another difficult week in the family (someone in hospital, but hopefully coming home in a couple of days), but davka because of that I feel the need to post a Good News Weekend instalment. This week’s instalment is all about winning. We’ll start with intellectual pursuits: The Israeli …
Read More »Israeli Elections – Silly Season.
It is election season in Israel with all the attendant empty promises, scandals, and political jockeying. Bayit Yehudi head and Education Minister Naftali Bennett took his deputy, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, and left the party, forming a new party simply called “The New Right”. I have not been able to …
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