The national security minister's flag-waving appearance over handcuffed activists at Ashdod port ignited one of the sharpest intra-government confrontations in recent memory.

Major Jewish organizations refused to attend the mayor's celebration over a Nakba video, but other Jewish guests showed up anyway – exposing a widening rift in the city's Jewish community.

It is clear what awaits us in the upcoming Israeli election season: superficiality, deception, lies, cheap propaganda and, above all, the fueling of hatred and the ignition of as much fear as possible. Everyone involved in the effort will work very hard to tear Israeli society apart from within. If we do not take responsibility for the future of Israeli society, we will be left with a society that is broken, exhausted and falling apart

As reports suggest a possible resumption of talks between Washington and Tehran, the ayatollah regime is escalating its rhetoric. Iran’s vice president warned: “We will stand against any aggression to the last drop of blood.”

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, who has spent years fighting anti-Zionist drift within American Jewry, is stunned by the coalition's religious legislation – the Western Wall bill and the conversion law.