“WHAT’S happening today is Marx’s revenge. Marx taught us that ideologies often serve as a superstructure camouflaging the real issues. Today there is no more camouflage. Mammon stands before us nakedly proclaiming: ‘I am thy God, O Israel!’” This is…
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It’s me speaking
Nir Nader interviews poet Yudit Shahar (Unless otherwise noted, translations are by Stephen Langfur.) YUDIT SHAHAR arrived at the Challenge office on a Friday morning. She had taken the bus, which got stuck in a huge traffic jam at the entrance to…
On National Service for Arabs
FOR DECADES ISRAEL has justified the unequal status of its Arab citizens, who now compose 19% of the population (1.4 million), by pointing out that they do not serve in the army. This claim is easily dispelled. Many Bedouin do…
Wisconsin in Israel: Punishing the Poor
IN early August 2005, steps were taken to implement the Wisconsin Plan in Israel – known here as Me-ha-Lev: “From the Heart.” Applied in the American state of Wisconsin in the mid 1990’s, it signals a new stage in the…
Poverty: Meeting Ground for Arab & Jewish Women
The women in Tel Aviv and Nazareth seem at a glance to be poles apart. In Tel Aviv they dress to kill. They study and work in a wide range of fields. They go “out on the town” till the…