Silvan Shalom

A man reads a newspaper while floating in the Dead Sea. (Author unknown, WikiCommons)

Red-Dead pipeline is the wrong answer, politically and environmentally

Pumping Red Sea water into the Dead Sea to save it from drying up ignores environmental consequences, experts warn. Rights groups decry the plan as an ‘attempt to force the Palestinian population to consent to their own dispossession.’ By Keren Simons Israel and Jordan last Thursday signed a historic agreement to cooperate over their shared bodies…

By +972 Magazine March 5, 2015

Naftali Bennett speaks to a young Israeli. (photo: Naftali Bennett's official Facebook page)

The trauma and tragedy of Israel’s vocational education system

Across the board, the achievements of vocational school graduates are significantly lower than those of non-vocational high school graduates. What is needed is equality. Nothing more, nothing less. By Yossi Dahan (Translated from Hebrew by Alan Horowitz) Before surrendering to the vision of Stef Wertheimer, Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Education Shay Piron and the vocational…

By Haokets December 6, 2014

Wife of Vice PM: ‘I need ten minutes with Michelle Obama!’

Judy Shalom Nir Mozes is a rich woman. So rich that her marriage to former Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom has made him the richest politician in Israel, according to Forbes Magazine. But alas, Silvan is not as important a Likudnik as he used to be (although he is still a cabinet minister). The title he…

By Ami Kaufman September 16, 2012

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Wife of Vice PM: Demolish Gaza if shooting continues

A few comments on the recent flare-up in the south expose the blind, knee-jerk public support the government and IDF get for their actions against Palestinians. Judy Nir Moses Shalom, the wife of senior Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, is known to pretty much say whatever she wants, whenever she wants. Calling her outspoken is…

By Ami Kaufman March 11, 2012