Asher Maoz

Asher Maoz is dean of the Peres Academic Center Law School in Rehovot.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Likud’s faction in the Knesset, last week. Threats from the Likud Central Committee may be inserted into the selection procedure for the most important judicial institution in Israel, says the writer.

Are Levin's accusations against High Court chief Barak fake? - opinion

On June 11, at the Western Wall, 39 Women of the Wall prayer books were grabbed, torn up, and destroyed.

Non-Orthodox Judaism brings a needed service to Am Yisrael - opinion

PROTESTING OUTSIDE a meeting of the British Labour Party’s National Executive, which was set to discuss the party’s definition of antisemitism, in London in September 2018

What is 'the new antisemitism?'


Yuli Edelstein is one of the most honest Israeli politicians - opinion

Edelstein was not among his colleagues surrounding Netanyahu during the prime minister’s attack on the court and the law enforcement officers at the opening of his trial.

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein

The NRP – from Golda Meir to Ayelet Shaked

Now we are facing a new stage in the whitewashing of women in public positions.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at Kohelet Conference in Jerusalem, October 9, 2018

The tricky story of the Israel Prize

Strange as it may sound, this petition must be credited to the Supreme Court itself.

Independence Day Celebrations

On halacha, politics and humanity

Interior Minister Arye Deri demonstrated a lack of humanity in expecting a bereaved husband to hurry from his wife’s Shiva to the Knesset to vote for his bill.

Shas party leader Arye Deri

Have we lost our senses?

A popular maxim states that a wise man avoids troubles from which a clever man may escape.

‘THE STATUS of the State of Israel in the territories captured during the 1967 war is disputable. In spite of some differing views, the consensus view of the international community is that Israel could not annex the territories.’

The strange adventures of a little stone

Why does the Polish president’s visit to Yoni’s grave prove that Netanyahu is incapable of doing his job?

STONES ON a grave tablet in the Mount of Olives cemetery.

Taking the name of Halacha in vain

The Chief Rabbinate supports the rule of law – the secular rule of law, despite the importance of halachic arguments.

Police break up a demonstration by Ultra-Orthodox Jews against the desecration of the Sabbath in central Jerusalem

Between Garbuz and Regev, Alon and Norman

Should the funding be cut of a theater that does not boycott shows in Judea and Samaria, just because one of the owners refused to perform in one show?

Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev

The Schabas Commission without Schabas

Schabas’s hostility toward Israel was well known, but this did not stop the United Nations Human Rights Council from nominating Schabas to this delicate mission.

William Schabas

When news is not really news

The comportment of the Israeli press hasn’t really changed over the years.

Newspaper (illustrative).