In a talk at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute on February 22, 2026, Israeli academic Alexander Yakobson discusses the question of national and civic identity in Israel as a Jewish and democratic ...

Strand Building, King's College London. Photo by Shadowssettle via Wikimedia. Licence accessible at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en.

Tel Aviv, March 2, 2026. Early morning. Two days ago, a siren woke us up around 8am. It was Saturday, so we expected to sleep late, but of course, we were ready for this unfortunate turn of ...