Tal Mitnick, 18, Is Currently Serving 30 Days in a Military Jail After Refusing to Be Drafted Into the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday. The Government Wants to 'Deepen the Occupation and Disallow Any Kind of Dissent,' He Said on the Eve of His Sentencing
Despite His Business Interests in a Saudi Deal, Trump Might Be Tempted to Promise to Score a Better Agreement After His Election Victory The Coalition Plans to Resume Its Judicial Overhaul, and the Air Force Prepares for an Impossible Reality Three Months After Its Reservists Threatened to Abstain From Duty
Plenty of Damage Has Already Been Done by Netanyahu's Judicial Coup, Sources in the Army Say, as Its Leaders Brace for More Turmoil and for the Heightening of Political Division as Well as of Security Tensions
Speaker Amir Ohana’s Threat That the Coalition Would Not Honor the High Court’s Ruling Is What Army Reservists Who Suspended Reporting for Duty Feared. The Proximity of Statements Made by Shin Bet Chief and the IDF Chief of Staff, Which Oppose Ohana’s in Spirit, Does Not Seem Accidental
Israel’s Mass Pro-democracy Protest Movement Has Given Many Israelis Hope. But Their Growing Resistance Is Understood by Strongmen Leaders Like Netanyahu as a Betrayal That Only Hardens Their Will to Prevail and Their Appetite for Revenge