Democracy

The city of Lod found itself at the heart of the violent aggression of May 2021. Through documented interviews, the article outlines six themes through which the traumatic events were reflected in the lives of the women of Lod and their families.

The city of Jaffa was a central point of conflict during the violent events of May 2021. The article, based on interviews conducted 6 months before violence broke out, outlines the ways in which gender, class, and ethno-national hierarchies, together with the violent and public character of protest, position both Jewish and Arab women at the margins of the events.

Decades of social science research have shown that people do not always process information carefully. Instead, we are “cognitive misers” who prefer to reduce effortful reasoning by relying on simple mental structures called “heuristics.” This is true even in encounters with misinformation.

This piece proposes digital media and information literacy (DMIL) education as a proactive framework to empower citizens to access, analyze, create, and reflect on the media in order to guarantee freedom of information and expression.

In response to the challenge of misinformation online, Israel launched a digital media and information literacy (DMIL) education curriculum and made it available for schools nationwide. In its current form, the Israeli DMIL education curriculum is lacking. Policymakers should consider three additional prisms of the challenge, which call for complementary educational responses.

 Taking a different gender perspective, the article centers on young men who are not active in any employment or educational framework. The events of May 2021, it is argued, were expected as policies and programs relevant to the distresses suffered by these youths are lacking or not put in place.

The EU aims to be a "global role model for the digital economy" and promote its regulatory model globally. Lawmakers are considering options to limit 'Big Tech' power by regulating their data-driven business models.

Like previous technological advancements, artificial intelligence is inherently neutral, neither inherently good nor bad. This Spotlight reflects on the question of how to evaluate AI-based technologies that could improve citizens' quality of life and consumer experience, but that are vulnerable to being abused.

Who is the Israeli man? What are his perceptions and views regarding gender issues? In what way, in his opinion, should household and childcare chores be divided between couples? To answer these questions, we conducted a research aimed at characterizing masculinities in Israel. We carried out an online survey among 506 men, 405 Jews and 101 Arabs, constituting a representative sample of Israeli men aged 18 and older.