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People have been wrongly predicting the downfall of Ehud Olmert for two years now. Has his reign finally come to an end? If exit polls for t...

Watch out for this one (Photo: NYT ) The Sunday NYT Magazine 's cover story today is a profile of Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni....

Who will be the next mukhtar of Israel? UPDATE (June 6) : The increase in entropy that Jeha was talking about seems to be kicking in. Barak...

MK Ami Ayalon (Labor) As many expected, the Labor Party primaries did not yield a clear winner in the first round. At the end of the day, wi...

Sderot synagogue hit by a qassam. The photograph of R. Ovadia Yosef (right) and the painting of the youthful Baba Sali [I think] (left) wer...

Olmert plans to ride it out The government passed its first post-Winograd and post-demonstrations challenge with flying colors. In three no-...

Chameleon holding on for dear life (Hebrew University, Har ha-tsofim, January 2006) It's really too bad that none of us were on the grou...

Meir Shalev's Roman Rusi (1988) The protest in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square has drawn more than 100,000 demonstrators. Organizers made a...

Orange might be back in style. Photo: Anti-disengagement poster in Jerusalem, December 2005. The Hebrew caption reads, "Again expulsion...

Can Livni do it? (Photo: Modified from Wikicommons ) It looks like Olmert might be serious about staying put. If the Prime Minister refuses ...

Llamas not taking responsibility for Lebanon War (Southern Israel, Summer 2006) In some cultures, people assume responsibility even for the...

Who is behind signs calling on Livni to replace Olmert? (Photo: Ynet ) Israeli Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni has so far been very cautious ab...

(Image: Wikipedia ) At a summit that is to be held in 3 weeks, the Arab foreign ministers are expected to reiterate their commitment to the ...

Israeli FM Tsipi Livni with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice last February ( State Dept .) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is said...

An honor guard for Olmert in France ( Channel 1 ) It is not clear what Israeli PM Ehud Olmert hoped to get out of his trip to Europe other ...