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The gate at Holman Correctional Facility is monitored by law enforcement before the scheduled execution by asphyxiation using pure nitrogen of Kenneth Smith who is convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, in Atmore, Alabama, U.S. January 25, 2024.

Alabama completes first execution using nitrogen gas asphyxiation

By REUTERS

Can contractors reduce prices? The supply of downtown apartments keeps growing.

Surplus of unsold apartments in Israel's center: Are prices dropping?

By Ofer Petersburg

DAVID BEN-GURION reads the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.

Can a unified Israel rise from the ashes of the Hamas war?

By YOHANAN PLESNER

Kiryat Gat

Treasury's plan: Foreign contractors & loans to boost periphery construction

By Ofer Petersburg

With Vice President Mike Pence looking on, US President Donald Trump gives a statement on Jerusalem, during which he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, US, December 6, 2017

Maine election disqualifies Trump from presidential primary ballot

By REUTERS

Will Israel's Thai workers return to agriculture, construction jobs?

By Ofer Petersburg

THE ORIGINAL scroll of the Declaration of Independence: The words are not a hastily drafted text; they are constitutive words, the writer argues.

If the Declaration of Independence falls, Israeli unity will fall too - opinion

By SHUKI FRIEDMAN

Knesset speaker Amir Ohana holds a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem. September 6, 2023.

Knesset speaker calls to replace High Court if reasonableness law struck down

By TROY O. FRITZHAND

Israelis are seen demonstrating near the Supreme Court in Jerusalem ahead of a vote in the Knesset on judicial reform, on February 20, 2023.

Why are Israelis not protected by due process of law? - opinion

By LEON HARRIS

A sign reading "Save Israel from Netanyahu" is seen at a protest against the government's judicial reform, in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2023.

Is Israel in danger of entering a constitutional crisis?

By MICHAEL STARR

NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER Itamar Ben-Gvir and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai attend the opening of a new police station in the Negev.

Ben-Gvir vs Shabtai: Who will police obey in a constitutional crisis?

By MICHAEL STARR

A LIGHT RAIL train stops at the Jerusalem City Hall station. ‘As a Jerusalemite since 1969, I have no desire to replace this chaotic pluralism for a largely monolithic secular, liberal, middle-class Ashkenazi Tel Avivian reality,’ says the writer.

Splitting Israel into two Jewish states solves nothing - opinion

By SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

Demonstrators protest against judicial reform in Jerusalem on July 23.

The funeral bells are ringing for Israeli democracy - opinion

By JANE BIRAN

DAVID BEN-GURION as a young man.

What would be written in an Israeli constitution? - opinion

By NEVILLE TELLER

The Sanhedrin, as depicted by the ‘People’s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge’ (1883)

Does Israel need a new Sanhedrin to draft a constitution? - comment