The letter, signed by 571 Jewish American politicians, diplomats and rabbis, said that a representative of Israel 'should not sow division but build relationships across differences,' following Ambassador Leiter's statements calling the pro-Israel liberal group J Street 'a cancer'

Comedian Lior Schleien is crisscrossing the country engaging with first-time voters, many of them supporters of Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir. The videos of these encounters are a viral sensation. But can they change minds?

Many lament the internal divisions in the period before October 7 and the right-wing has turned 'October 6' into a metaphor for the supposed failings of the Oslo Accords. But that period saw a fervent, focused civic effort that succeeded in deterring and deferring the hyperactive assault on democratic institutions