Steven Brooke, University of Wisconsin – Madison, sbrooke@wisc.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Two interrelated features of the contemporary Middle East are ongoing insurgencies and the
How many is one too many? Israeli Elections 2018 – 2020
Tamar Hermann, The Open University of Israel and the Israel Democracy Institute, tamarhe@gmail.com This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Between 2018-2020 Israel set a national – perhaps
The Decline of Democracy in Israel’s Sovereignty Discourse
Meirav Jones, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, meiravjo@gmail.com, and Lihi Ben Shitrit, University of Georgia, lben@uga.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. One week before Israel’s second
It’s Us or Them: Partisan Polarization in Israel and Beyond
Lotem Bassan-Nygate, University of Wisconsin – Madison, lbassan@wisc.edu, and Chagai M. Weiss, University of Wisconsin – Madison, cmweiss3@wisc.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Jewish Israelis are
Introduction: The State of Israeli Democracy
Even before the Covid-19 crisis, Israel had experienced unprecedented levels of political instability in the last two years. Most notably, Israel held an unprecedented three national elections between April 2019 and March 2020. At the same time, for all of