On the eve of Israel’s 61st Independence Day last week, the country’s police arrested six Israeli Jewish feminist political activists – members of New Profile, the movement for the civil-isation of Israeli society, including a 70-year-old woman – for assisting young Israelis to evade conscription.
What a start for the New Year! On 27 December, the Israeli Defence Forces launched an attack of unprecedented scale on the Gaza Strip. According to the Israeli government, the attack was in response to unyielding Palestinian rocket and mortar fire into Israel since the end of the Egyptian negotiated ceasefire.