Democracy 2023

A data-driven discussion about the challenges and opportunities facing the State of Israel.

Democracy and tyranny face off across the globe - opinion

The US and the Western world at large are attempting to depict the war in Ukraine as a struggle between good and evil, or a battle between democracy and tyranny.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks during a virtual Summit for Democracy, which he hosted from the White House, last month.
 TALIA SASSON speaks with Dan Diker at the Democracy 2023 conference on Tuesday.

How should Israel be discussed in the public sphere?

 DR. YIZHAR HESS, vice chairman of the World Zionist Organization, speaking at the Democracy 2023 Conference

‘We can live in a non-Jewish democracy, but not in a non-democratic Jewish state’

 Commanders for Israel’s Security chair Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Matan Vilnai

Retired Israeli generals discuss security, sovereignty with Revivi, ex-envoy


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Gitzin on proposed reforms: An attack on all of democracy

Gitzin remains optimistic that the reforms can be defeated and is encouraged by the growing opposition. “Israel is not an island, and the Israeli economy is not an island.

 MICKEY GITZIN, director of the New Israel Fund, at the Democracy 2023 Conference

Danon on judicial reforms: Wait till endgame, then make judgment

Israel's former ambassador to the UN has called on US leaders to take a step back from Israeli politics.

Likud MK Danny Danon speaks at the Democracy 2023 conference.

Diaspora Minister suggests creating a fund for Jewish day school tuition

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli wants to see funding be made available for Jewish education outside of the Jewish state.

 Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli in conversation with The Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz at the Democracy 2023 conference.

Judicial reforms could make Israel a 'haven for corruption' - MK

MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen said the judicial reforms are worrying due to the lack of professionalism and how it threatens to destabilize Israel's checks and balances.

 National Unity MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen (L) is seen speaking with Zvika Klein at The Jerusalem Post's Democracy 2023 conference, on January 24, 2023.

What is the state of Israeli democracy in 2023?

January 24, 2023 | Jerusalem

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