The Knesset

Israelis say housing and cost of living decide their vote — but the campaign is about everything else. Can the pragmatic center break the pattern?

One product, three seals, and no way to tell which is "the" kosher one. How a single biblical sentence became a 1,500-agency industry.

A 1984 Science study, cortisol in cord blood, and why trees beat sky and grass — the research on what your window view actually does to you.

Armies built spy agencies first — half a century before Mossad. How military and civilian intelligence divide the work, and who enforces the line.

A 68-dunam walled district in central Jerusalem has been a pilgrimage campus, a prison, and a city hall. Here's how it became Russian.

How a border drawn with wax pencils in 1948 split Musrara's homes in two — and shaped the neighborhood that raised the Israeli Black Panthers.

Tribal police, rabbinic courts, and consensual arbitration all operate under one state — here's the legal plumbing that keeps it from fragmenting.

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language is finally standardizing how place names get written in English — but the Q on the signs has survived every...

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language can coin words the state must use — but it can't make anyone say them. Why 10 million speakers might be the...

Inside the Jerusalem camp that's within the city limits but beyond the barrier — taxed by the city, policed by no one.

Egypt ruled Gaza for 19 years without annexing it. Israel applied full law to East Jerusalem in 1967. Two occupied places, two very different legal...

Voter turnout is one reading from one instrument. What else tells us whether a democracy is actually engaged?

Same La Roche-Posay cream: $17 on Amazon, 160 shekels in Jerusalem. Here's where the markup actually happens.

Roughly 250 of the world's 7,000 languages have 100,000+ speakers. What's it like living in one of them?

A reader saw a green strobe hovering over Jerusalem. Here's how to think like an educated guesser.