Will Israel Adopt Judicial Reforms?

Will Israel Adopt Judicial Reforms?

On March 27, 2023, with Israel on the brink of a self-inflicted implosion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bibi, announced that he would delay his government’s controversial pursuit of judicial reform until the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, returns from a recess at...
Bibi is Back in the Saddle

Bibi is Back in the Saddle

Pros and cons, from a Messianic perspective, regarding Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power. It once seemed impossible, then unlikely, and now it is happening. Benjamin Netanyahu, also known as Bibi, Israel’s Prime Minister from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021, is...
The more things change…

The more things change…

  After Israel’s most recent election, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—you may remember him—has ended Israel’s political deadlock in the opinion of Times of Israel blogger Sheldon Kirshner. Netanyahu and his coalition secured 64 of the Knesset’s 120...
Hanukkah and the Biblical “Silent Period”

Hanukkah and the Biblical “Silent Period”

The Maccabees made a lot of noise between the ministries of Malachi and John the Baptist. The setting of the Hannukah story is well-known to most Jews and Bible scholars thanks to 1 and 2 Maccabees, two books written during the biblical “silent period” and counted...