Left wing israel

Promote Jewish diversity within unity – opinion

The High Holy Days are an opportunity to recalibrate approaches to Zionism, including the idea that it merely signifies a physical domain

An ultra-Orthodox man blows a shofar ahead of Rosh Hashanah in Mea She’arim in Jerusalem in August
AN ISRAELI settler (R) and a Palestinian farmer are seen arguing during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, on October 29, 2025.

Israel's real West Bank problem is not settler violence - it is the settlement enterprise - opinion

Gadi Taub sits down with Editor-in-chief Zvika Klein to retrace the defection that took him from Peace Now demonstrations to the front line of the fight over Israel's Supreme Court, its media and its national identity.

Who is Gadi Taub , the Labor prince who became the Israeli Left’s fiercest critic?

A haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protester argues with a police officer outside the Jerusalem IDF recruitment center, April 12, 2026.

Almost half of Israelis support tougher sanctions, pressure to promote haredi conscription - poll


Want a change? Don’t change anything

No matter what the polls say, no matter which politician disappoints you, and what campaign will excite you, you must go out and vote for the same party you voted for in September.

Time to decide who to vote for again

Soccer star withdraws from project over New Israel Fund backing

Menashe Zalka withdrew from the All Star Team Initiative after learning of the NIF's involvement.

Menashe Zalka

Left-wing MKs accuse Netanyahu of starting war for political advantage

The comments drew criticism from MKs on the Right and the Left

Labor MK Omer Bar-Lev 370

Yair Golan: The Right-Wing is Neither Jewish nor Zionist

Comments come amid past controversial statements attributed to Golan

Yair Golan

The revolutionary who changed Israel more than Aharon Barak

The truth is that former Supreme Court President Meir Shamgar in many ways started the judicial activist revolution long before Barak.

Meir Shamgar, former Supreme Court president

Likud: Left-wing activists provide rides for Bedouin voters against law

The Likud Party requested that the head of the Central Elections Committee order the organization and activists to disperse.

A Bedouin man casts his ballot in Knesset elections on April 9, 2019

Bibi, Right for Israel or Left for disaster

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu votes Tuesday in Jerusalem

Democratic Union leader Nitzan Horowitz, champion of the Left

Sitting in the Democratic Union campaign offices in Tel Aviv this week, Horowitz sought to explain why the left-wing has been so bereft of power and influence for so long.

Democratic Union leader Nitzan Horowitz

The House gets it right on BDS

"A powerful statement demonstrating that an overwhelming bipartisan majority rejects BDS."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) administers the oath of office to House members and delegates of the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 116th Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019

Ideological compromises

Larger parties mean less votes that go to waste for parties that do not cross the 3.25% threshold – Zehut and the New Right are two examples from the last election.

Israel Democratic Party's Ehud Barak, MK Stav Shaffir and Meretz's Nitzan Horowitz of the Democratic Camp