Israelis will vote on Election Day, more than three years after the October 7 massacre, as some of the most consequential ...

Holding elections on schedule is one of the fundamental principles of democracy. Yet in certain emergency situations, there ...

My doctors recommended surgery. ChatGPT had a different perspective. As artificial intelligence increasingly joins human ...

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810) was the founder of Breslov Hasidism, which he led at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. His tomb, known among Breslov Hasidim as the “holy ...

Israel uses a proportional representation electoral system based on closed-list ballots, that is, voters do not have a way to influence which candidates will enter Knesset on Election Day—unlike most ...

This month, we found only minor changes in levels of optimism regarding the two topics which always receive the lowest optimism ratings (as they did this month): the future of social cohesion and the ...

What is the Central Elections Committee, and what is its institutional status? The Central Elections Committee is the election management body (EMB) responsible for Knesset elections. It operates as ...

This month saw a continued decline in levels of optimism, this time across all four topics, though the decreases are very small. Significantly, this marks the continuation of a trend that began in ...

44% of Israelis think Israel's security is a central consideration for President Trump, representing a sharp decline from the last measurement. 61% of Israelis think Prime Minister Netanyahu should ...

In this paper, we examine Israel’s 2026 state budget against the backdrop of the prolonged war that began on October 7, 2023, and the ongoing damage it has caused to Israel’s fiscal stability, growth ...