Burning Conscience: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out

A visit to a past of hatred & Zionism

It’s not Kabul, it’s Jerusalem

For most Israeli Jews, even those who live in Jerusalem, the “mental map” of the Holy City includes a number of uncharted regions, Palestinian areas of which most Israelis are completely unaware.

“We never pass by these neighbourhoods despite the fact that we are in Jerusalem every day,” remarked Eli and Simcha Shuval, who [...]

Dividing Jerusalem / Report to address repercussions of a split Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (JIIS), which in the past supported removing Arab neighborhoods from the capital’s jurisdiction and placing them in Palestinian hands, will submit to the prime minister and policy makers a detailed document setting out the thorny legal and municipal issues involved in dividing Jerusalem. The institute’s researchers now question whether [...]

Israel shaken by troops’ tales of brutality + Israeli Soldiers Speak Out

A study by an Israeli psychologist into the violent behaviour of the country’s soldiers is provoking bitter controversy and has awakened urgent questions about the way the army conducts itself in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.Nufar Yishai-Karin, a clinical psychologist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, interviewed 21 Israeli soldiers and heard confessions of [...]