Democracy

The October 7th horrific attack on southern Israel left the cities, villages and Kibutzim of the Western Negev area with tearing grief, loss and trauma. The 2024-2025 art calendar, produced by hbs's partner Umm Culture association, provides a glimpse to personal, symbolic interpretations of the local reality before and after October 7th, as well as a space for reflection and rehabilitation.

Safeguarding and promoting legal, human and civic rights of the LGBTQI community in Israel. The legal database is open for the use of attorneys, judges, academia, journalists, experts, community members, and all those interested in the legal status of the community in Israel.

Targeted advertising, or microtargeting, involves displaying selected ads to a predefined group of users on a platform at auctioned prices. This Explainer highlights the implications and controversies surrounding the practice.

This backgrounder aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of how digital media are shaping democracy and what might be done to limit possible avenues of anti-democratic abuse, while kindling their democratic potential.

Over the past two decades, digital rights have become central to global internet governance debates, with varying interpretations across countries. This Spotlight offers an overview of digital rights in Israel.

A conversation with Carlos Hernández- Echevarría from Maldita.es, a Spanish independent journalistic platform focused on the control of disinformation and public discourse through fact-checking and data journalism techniques. 

A conversation with Danny Rogers from the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) on the business model behind disinformation activities and ways to defund and disincentivize their propagators by providing the industry with clear definitions and data.