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 formatSubscribe08:37 PM • July 22 2026 IDTIn the years after the second intifada and the collapse of the Oslo process, what remained of Israel's battered and disillusioned Zionist left exchanged the cause of peace for a new animating concern. While the struggle against "religious coercion," against clericalism and fundamentalism, had been part of the left-wing agenda since the 1980s, it increasingly became the left's central cause, as hope for a resolution to the conflict faded.In the NewsIran Threatens U.S. Mideast Assets After Trump Warns of Strikes on Power PlantsWe Found Israel's U.S. Influence-op Accounts. No One Actually Follows ThemPolice Station Opened in Hitler's Birthplace in Bid to Deter Neo-Nazi PilgrimsA Netanyahu Stronghold Near Gaza Was Ravaged on Oct 7. Will It Go Further Right?Border Police Block Haaretz Journalists From Reaching Home of Palestinian FamilyRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThe Most Optimistic Israeli in Jerusalem Is Leaving the CountryAs Ground Invasion Looms, U.S. and Iran Want Wild-card Israel Out of the FightBetween Messi and Milei: How Argentina Became Israel's Team at the World CupThe Original Ozempic Society of Ancient RomeDemocrats Rejected U.S. Aid to Israel, and AIPAC Couldn't Stop Them'Choose Hope': Natalie Portman Backs Arab-Jewish Party Ahead of Israeli Election