The Muqata

Lessons learned from Operation Shield and Arrow.

Yesterday, a small group of anarchists and power-elites held the entire country hostage, shutting down the country as the economy and security of the nation hung in the balance.

Until now the protesters drowned out any other voices, but the Haredim of Bnei Brak got them to start talking.

Rav Nachman of Breslov has some stories that can get us through the anarchy crisis.

The wife of On ben-Pelet saved him from Korach's revolt where he had nothing to gain and everything to lose.

What if the hi-tech companies leading the battle against judicial reform had darker motiviations behind their actions?

It's interesting that American activists oppose the judicial selection process they have in the US... when it comes to Israel.

What politician, judge or investigative committee is going to try and fight this spying knowing that their deepest secrets will be exposed by the police?

Through Trump's unfiltered mouth we learn the truth about Bibi.

It’s the 7th of Tishrei. It’s been 3 years since Ari Fuld hy”d was murdered.

Like Ariel Sharon, Naftali Bennett lied and cheated his voters, but technically, what he did didn't break the rules of Israeli democracy.

Netanyahu's actions yesterday were important messages to a whole slew of people. Were they smart enough to understand them?

We started to write one post this evening after watching what looked like an historic speech by Mansour Abbas (Ra’am party), but then we saw a very different speech he gave 4 days ago, in Arabic.

The good news is there won’t be a fifth election. The bad news is there won’t be a solid rightwing coalition either.

Netanyahu is right where he wants to be, with a choice of coalition partners to pick from.

Jason Greenblatt seems to have clearly implied that the PA could veto Israel's application of sovereignty, right now.

David Friedman is on our side, but he makes claims that are contradicted by the text of the peace plan he is trying to sell us.

Gantz is trying to hard to push a very left wing government onto Bibi, and it may backfire on him.

Who are the winners and the losers of the election crisis, and what did we learn from it?

Tonight at candle lighting time, Jews in Israel and around the world will go out to their gardens, porches, and windows to sing Lecha Dodi and Shalom Aleichem together.

Sovereignty, the elections and Trump's peace plan have been destroyed with a single interview, but Israel can still make it happen...

In a perfect world and on paper the plan is ingenious - but what happens when it meets reality?

The unnatural alliance between Gantz and Lapid is what is preventing the formation of a government and may bring about new elections.

We have a tradition, when Jews want to forget they are Jewish, the non-Jews come around and remind us, the hard way.

Asking the right questions and looking at the data a little differently makes you realize that everything you've been told about Chareidim is wrong.

JoeSettler believes the Deal of the Century plan is ambitious, complete fantasy, and will lead to an even worse conflict with an economically empowered enemy.

If the media didn't learn from Tuvia Grossman, why will it learn now from Covington Catholic High School?

Bennett and Shaked's breakaway party will either strengthen Israel's right, or completely destroy it in the upcoming elections...

With a single question, we can determine if your opposition to the "Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People" stems from unexamined populism or from an anti-Zionist ideology.

David Bitton started no small amount of rumors, that Netanyhau offered Shaked the slot right below his in the Likud party.