Holding elections on schedule is one of the fundamental principles of democracy. Yet in certain emergency situations, there ...

My doctors recommended surgery. ChatGPT had a different perspective. As artificial intelligence increasingly joins human ...

Israelis will vote on Election Day, more than three years after the October 7 massacre, as some of the most consequential questions about the attack remain unanswered. The establishment of a state ...

Israelis vote for party lists and only in elections for Knesset and local government. Adding a candidate-based component to Knesset elections and considering reforms that expand the number of elected ...

The recent elections proved, once again—especially against the backdrop of the Joint List’s meteoric success a year ago—the weakness of the parties’ base on the Arab street. Anyone following the ...

This month saw a continued decline in levels of optimism, this time across all four topics, though the decreases are very small. Significantly, this marks the continuation of a trend that began in ...

Dr. Arik Rudnitzky breaks down the Arab vote to the 25th Knesset elections – it seems that Ra’am's gamble paid off and they emerged the big winner. Dr. Arik Rudnitzky on the outcome of the final Arab ...

The survey was conducted by the Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute between May 26–29, 2025. It was based on a representative sample of the ...

Reducing the possibility of invalidating legislation and the rest of the initiatives will further undermine the protection of the rights of the Arab minority in Israel, whose trust in the judicial ...

After five elections in less than four years – Israel is on its way to political stability. Although the number of voters since 2021 didn’t change dramatically – almost 9% of the votes were wasted ...

The State of Israel belongs to the family of parliamentary democracies, in which the executive branch (the government – i.e., the prime ministers and his or her cabinet) draws its authority from the ...

This study looks at the burden of IDF reserve duty on the working population in Israel, based on the most up-to-date data from the CBS Labor Force Survey, made available for the purposes of this study ...