Articles by Ziy0nadmin

http://abuyehuda.com/2020/04/lessons-from-the-pandemic/We went on a shopping expedition yesterday. Masked up, we walked to the supermarket and pharmacy and then returned home by way of the greengrocer. We made a special stop at a small market that […]

http://abuyehuda.com/2020/04/moral-dilemmas-then-and-now/Dario Gabbai died last month, aged 97. Gabbai was a Sonderkommando, a Greek-Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau who was forced to help herd new arrivals to the German death chambers and remove their bodies to the […]

http://abuyehuda.com/2020/04/the-season-of-plagues-and-freedom/It’s almost Pesach, when the thoughts of Jewish bloggers turn to plagues and freedom. Plagues we certainly have. In addition to the coronavirus, Africa (and possibly the Middle East) is about to experience one of […]

http://abuyehuda.com/2020/04/governments-and-other-parasites/Today is supposed to be the day Netanyahu and Gantz finalize their agreement to form Israel’s new unity government. But so what? What is a government for, anyway? Why do we allow ourselves to support […]

http://abuyehuda.com/2020/04/israels-political-zoo/The greatest danger to Israel from the coronavirus is not a collapse of the healthcare system and a massive increase in the body count, as happened in Italy. It’s not impossible, but most groups – […]

http://abuyehuda.com/2020/03/the-haredi-disconnect/About 12% of Israel’s population are Haredim, often referred to as “ultra-orthodox,” an expression which they strongly dislike. The Haredi population is growing rapidly with a birthrate of about 7 children per woman, and if […]

http://abuyehuda.com/2020/03/a-short-political-history-of-israel/In the pre-state period, the socialist Left dominated the yishuv. They created the institutions that would form the basis of the state, and ran them according to their ideology. The Histadrut labor federation dominated the […]

http://abuyehuda.com/2020/03/bibi-derangement-in-the-age-of-corona/#comment-1423My sense is that the majority of Israelis want the kind of unity government you describe. This does not mean we are going to get it. This is another sign that the system is broken […]