Michal Cotler-Wunsh

The writer is a Member of Knesset in Israel’s 23rd Knesset where she serves as the Knesset’s Official Liaison on Matters Concerning the ICC.

 LEFT TO right: Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher were released from captivity last week. Anyone with a heart was moved beyond words at their return home, but for the heartless genocidal Hamas barbarians who kidnapped them, human tragedy is the strategy, the writer asserts.

It isn't a hostage 'deal,' it's extortion of Israeli souls - opinion

 THE WRITER (front row, fourth from left) is among the members of the task force appearing at a European Parliament hearing.

Protecting, predicting, and preventing online antisemitism - opinion

Former prime minister Tony Blair presents Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks with a Lifetime Achievement award at the Jewish News' Night of Heroes

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’s second yahrzeit -opinion


We must stop antisemitism from spreading on digital platforms - opinion

Online hate learned that referring to “killing Jews” triggers an algorithm to remove the content, but calling for “death to Zionists” is acceptable.

 THE WRITER sits alongside President Issac Herzog, who served then as Jewish Agency chairman, at a task force hearing in the Knesset, 2020.

The mutation of antisemitism back into the mainstream - opinion

BDS has made no secret about its ultimate agenda: demonizing, delegitimizing and singling out Israel, with the ultimate goal of destroying it.

 PALESTINIAN SUPPORTERS and Israeli delegates argue outside the World Conference Against Racism, in Durban, 2001.

Fighting antisemitism: 'Pound of flesh' in 2022 is never enough - opinion

The ensuing hullabaloo exposed the puritanical illiberalism of self-defined progressives, shouting down, screaming over and incapable of hearing any views other than their own.

 THE WRITER (left) and other panelists deliberate at the recent international workshop at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem.

Hospitals' healing power and diversity must become the norm - opinion

Hospitals are hotspots of diversity with doctors and nurses of every type, religion, culture and background.

Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem's Mount Scopus Emergency Medicine Department with her Jewish and Arab staff.

Menachem Begin's legacy and the security of Israel - opinion

His legacy sheds light on Israel’s responsibility as a nation-state to Jews worldwide, particularly in times of crisis.

 FAMILIES OF Hisham al-Sayed and Avera Mengistu pose at a news conference in 2018 where they called for the release of the two Israeli civilians from Hamas captivity.

Miriam Naor: Part Jewish mother, part judicial mensch - opinion

Characteristically diligent, she served even in her final hours, sitting late into the night, as Head of the State Commission investigating the Meron tragedy.

 THE WRITER (right), on the day of her inaugural speech to the Knesset, August 5, 2020, poses with former Supreme Court president Miriam Naor.

Colleyville sounds the siren for the Knesset on danger of antisemitism - opinion

This is a call to action for all who cherish democracy and recognize that antisemitism does not only threaten Jews or Israel, but the societies in which it is permitted to mutate and permeate.

 ALIYAH AND INTEGRATION Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata speaks at a meeting in the Knesset with the Jewish People’s Lobby in November.

Time to create pandemic travel exceptions rule - opinion

The mechanism utilized at the start of the pandemic to address outbreaks and most recently in this fifth Omicron wave must change.

Travelers arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport when Israel again permitted tourists to enter the country on November 1.

Fight learned helplessness by treating symptoms, fixing problems - opinion

Corona has created opportunities for individuals, communities and countries, exposing issues that can no longer be swept under the rug of reality

 THE WRITER, then serving as MK, poses for a portrait at the Knesset last year. Olim are acutely aware and prepared to ask critical questions.

What is the role that aliyah plays in the State of Israel? - opinion

Aliyah has been fundamental to the development, evolution, and success of the modern Start-Up Nation and the founding of the State of Israel.

FRENCH immigrants arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport in 2017.