Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribe05:24 PM • June 30 2026 IDTI was about 10 years old when I asked Haim Hanegbi what the Matzpen organization actually was. "This," he said, pointing to the five members sitting in the small living room in Ramat Aviv, "this is Matzpen." In that reply, half mockery and half pride, lies the essence of something deeper than a joke about the size of a left-wing political movement.In the NewsStanding Together Is Stronger as a Movement Than a PartyCalifornia's Scott Wiener Addresses Trans Rally Ouster, Israel and NetanyahuIsrael's Armenian Genocide Recognition: A Right Move, for Very Wrong ReasonsNetanyahu, Haredi Lawmakers Slam Bnei Brak Rabbi for Harshly Cursing IDF ChiefSmotrich: Israel Ready to Build Three Settlements in Gaza 'Immediately'Remembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIAdvanced Israeli Systems Sold to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Documents and Images ShowIsrael 2026 Election Poll Tracker: The Latest ProjectionsA Collapsing Society: Israel Suffers National Mental Crisis Due to the WarFlagGate: How Israel Set Off a Storm by Hosting a Separatist Genocide DenierWhy Israelis Should Stop Being Afraid of Mamdani-backed Brad LanderSettlers Tried to Torch Palestinian Homes. They Messed With the Wrong Village
Standing Together is stronger as a movement than a party
The founders of Standing Together built one of the most impressive Jewish-Arab spaces created here in the past generation. It would be a pity to trade so rare a political asset for a small party







