The current government has failed in its promise to restore personal security. The police have been and remain the punching bag of Israeli society.
Netanyahu's meeting this week with the Joint List is the essence of the problem. There are many democratic nation-states in the world where there is a minority that lives in peace and quiet, writes Yossi Ben-Ghiat. The time has come not to run away from responsibility – tolerance of the majority towards the minority, the Jews towards the Arabs, he says.