So is the prime minister's threat of a new lockdown warranted? No, and that's not even the direction the government itself is taking.

Certainly he deserved to die. But there is a saying in Hebrew: "Better wise than right."

"After such efforts...anything less than 100.000 (demonstrators) would have been a failure."

"Yet Israelis keep voting on security, the the real issues are domestic, including relations with Diaspora Jews."

"In other words, both the apoplectic left and the ecstatic right have it wrong."

There’s a hidden aspect to Tisha B’Av, mourning the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem, that could put holy sites, and the Temples t...