03.22.2024 As Missiles Pound Evacuated Kibbutz Manara, One Grocery Store Manager Has Stayed To Help Feed Soldiers Igor Abramovich, Kibbutz Manara grocery store manager: “At first I was afraid, but at some point I got used to it” | Even as the small northern kibbutz has faced widespread destruction during the war, dozens of Israelis have applied to join the community By David Tversky
03.20.2024 Coming Home to a Ghost Town: Shlomi’s Evacuated Residents Long To Return Despite Ongoing Danger Evacuees from the small town in northern Israel, living in hotels throughout the country, are angry at the lack of plans to make their homes safe again | “My prime minister is Nasrallah. He dictates everything that happens here. Where is our government?" By Maya Ronen and David Tversky
03.19.2024 “Predatory and Destructive”: Israel’s Agricultural Sector Reacts to Deep Budget Cuts Industry experts fear the 266 million shekel cut to the Agriculture Ministry's budget will have catastrophic consequences | Chairman of the Israel Farmers' Federation and secretary general of the Moshavim Movement Amit Ifrach: "The national mission of the state is to strengthen food security, not crush it" By Maya Ronen
03.18.2024 Poor Funding to Israel’s Mental Health System Leaves a Traumatized Population Struggling for Support Stretched thin between regular patients and the sudden influx of evacuees and reservists requiring mental health services, staff at Sha’ar Menashe Mental Health Center feel abandoned by the state | Psychologists are working second jobs in private clinics to make ends meet By Dafna Eisbruch
03.18.2024 The Key Takeaway from the Meron Disaster Report: Every Public Servant Has Personal Responsibility Commission members were appalled by the culture of "narrow-mindedness and abdication of responsibility" in public bodies | Civil service workers have a personal responsibility to be able to withstand pressure from those in power By Oshra Lerer Shaib
03.17.2024 "Fighters by Day, Monks by Night": Understanding Hamas’s Religious Ideology What religious laws allow Hamas to slaughter women, children and the elderly? How does this stack up to the "moderation" of their parent movement, the Muslim Brotherhood? And do terrorists really believe that they will continue to live on in heaven? | Religious researcher Shmuel Ben Shalom discusses the religious and spiritual foundations of the terrorist organization Hamas in an exclusive interview with Davar By Tal Kaspin