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Trust in the Lord and stand on the Land

Israel’s would-be new leadership – and Israelis as a whole – can continue to duck and dive around the subject, doing everything within their intellectual and political ability to avoid engaging it head on, but it remains the most central of all the issues confronting this nation.
It will not go away. It will keep on [...]

Not voting for Messiah

Hope, it seems, springs very much eternal when electing political leaders.
I first noticed this as a newspaper reporter covering apartheid’s demise.
If one word summed up the national mood as Nelson Mandela went from prisoner to president, it was hope – exuberant, tremendous hope.
Mandela was the savior who would transform South Africa into a “Rainbow Nation” [...]

Israel’s elections: Please explain

“Dad,” my oldest son asked me a few minutes ago. “Who won the elections?”
“Well, Tzipi won one more seat than Bibi, but there’s a good chance Bibi will be the next prime minister.”
“Huh?” He said quizzically, adding after a minute:
“I wish Israel’s elections were like America’s. They were easy to understand.”
Granted, my 14-year-old and I [...]