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Unconstitutional: The establishment of a private prison in Israel

Unconstitutional: The establishment of a private prison in Israel
By Bambi Sheleg  |  15/04/2010
The attempt to understand Israeli society and the nature of the challenges it faces led us, at this particular bend in the road, to the issue of the establishment of a private prison and to the far-reaching ramifications that such a decision could have for Israel's character and image.

On the Violation of the Covenant Between State and Citizen
By Ofer Sitbon  |  15/04/2010
The Anglo-American liberal tradition took upon itself the principle of a state monopoly on the punishment of criminals. Due process in its broad sense – beginning with the stage of investigation, trial and ultimately, imprisonment – is usually viewed as a fair guarantee that individual rights will be preserved. Ofer Si...

Privatizing the covenant
By Yuval Sherlo  |  15/04/2010
The privatization of prisons is akin to the absurdity of hiring the services of mercenaries to defend the country. Perhaps a legion of mercenaries would be cheaper than a popular army, but an arrangement such as this would negate any sense of destiny among the members of society. The Israeli nation is joined by a coven...

A Letter from London - Remembering the Shoah and moving on
By Antony Lerman  |  15/04/2010
Like many British Jews, none of my close family died in the Shoah. And yet, also like many British Jews, the Holocaust has loomed large in my consciousness. As an aspiring academic historian, I once considered writing a doctoral thesis on the influence of Wagner’s ideas about Jews on the Nazi leadership. In the early 1...

Blog - A Polish Tragedy
By Agata Peleszuk  |  15/04/2010
Last Saturday Poland lost 96 voices. 96 families lost their relatives. The army lost the highest commanders. The parliament lost 18 members. The political arena lost 9 strong women leaders who contributed to the struggle for equality. The nation lost its President. Israel and Jewish people lost a good friend.

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  15/04/2010
I'm in Switzerland. So near by, yet so far-off.
Swiss people are kind of like German people, without the holocaust…looking back, it might sound good but looking forward - time will tell.

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