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Israelis voting in the 2013 Knesset elections (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills)

A personal account: (Not) voting in an age of cynicism

One simple answer to the question of why elections matter is that I feel part of something when I vote in Israel. Being away for four months, living deep inside the world of other peoples’ conflicts, provided a few more answers. For the first time since moving to Israel 15 years ago, I was not…

By Dahlia Scheindlin January 23, 2013

Cabinet Secretary Zvi_Hauser (Photo: Odedee (Own work) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]/Wikimedia Commons)

Well-timed absentee voting bill – a blow to Israeli democracy

By Issa Edward Boursheh In late March, before elections were announced, Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser revived an earlier effort to grant Israeli citizens abroad the right to vote. The argument in support of such a bill is that it could increase the level of overall voter participation. But there is every reason to believe that…

By +972 Magazine May 5, 2012