Tal Harris

The writer is a human rights activist and a PhD candidate in the field of migration.

Anais, a student at the International Bilingual School (EIB), attends her online lessons in her bedroom in Paris as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread in France, March 20, 2020.

Pandemic madness may help end the absurdities of office work

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet to discuss possible political frameworks, October 27 2019

A minority govt default for politicians; for citizens it’s great

A Christian pilgrim carrying a cross to reenact the way of the cross along the Via Dolorosa on Good Friday

If Muslim and Christian holidays became public holidays in Israel


Environmental neglect: the big absurd of nationalist politics

Eagle migration to Israel

Why only ‘unnatural’ deaths?

Let us not wait for a disruption at the scale of two world wars to reconsider this as “natural.” Let every death as a result of climate criminals be followed by international headlines.

A candlelight vigil is held at Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church for victims of a shooting incident at the Congregation Chabad synagogue in Poway, north of San Diego, California

What Israel can learn from elections in Senegal

As much as we often like to think of ourselves as part of the West, we continue to share a lot with many emerging economies – even with Africa’s most western country.

YOUNG SENEGALESE welcome US President Barack Obama to a school in Senegal in 2013

How the primaries can help save the world

Since we vote approximately every four years, we refrain from dealing with the most dramatic issues affecting our future.

Israeli workers count ballots cast by Israeli soldiers and civil servants living overseas at the central elections committee building in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem March 18, 2015.

Expose the Netanyahu-Haniyeh accords

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May welcomes Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Downing Street in London, June 6, 2018

Forget Melania’s outfit: The Trump administration is killing Africa

Tragically, while Africa is the continent which contributes the least to this global deterioration, it is the one suffering the most.

MELANIA TRUMP enjoys a trip to the pyramids

Lessons from South Sudan, for those rushing to deport Eritrean refugees

Since young Abiy Ahmed became prime minister of Ethiopia in April, he has released thousands of political prisoners and removed the state of emergency and media censorship.

A boy takes part in a protest against the Israeli government's plan to deport African migrants, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 24, 2018.

Instead of failing to restrain PM, Arab MKs can engage Israeli people

Unlike Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, the representatives of the Arab citizens of Israel have seats in parliament, as well as public funds for political activity.

Israeli Arab MKs rally in Beersheba against the Prawer Plan

For immigrants, too

National service paves a road to social integration

National Service volunteers ceremony at the president residence

From harassing soccer players to human rights activists

Netanyahu’s government has turned into a sad circus.

LIONEL MESSI celebrates scoring a second goal in a recent game.