The recent Gaza-Israel clash has brought several high-profile celebrities to express their indignation about Israel’s actions in Gaza. Most of the criticism focused on the human rights of the Palestinian civilians while omitting the rights of Israelis. There’s an increasing tendency in recent years to associate human rights with political…

Human rights are conceptualized as moral entitlements that we all have by virtue of being human beings, rational beings, to use the Kantian paradigm. As rational agents, we are also autonomous agents with inherent human dignity that grants us certain inalienable entitlements. Kant’s ideas about human dignity were dominant in…

In his theory of fundamental surprises, Zvi Lanir, an Israeli intelligence officer (ret.) and Praxis institute founder, distinguishes between two types of surprises: Situational Surprise — lack of details, informational, and intelligence deficiencies. Fundamental Surprise — one that forces a reevaluation of an entire perceptual system. Based on this distinction…

The spread of Coronavirus is changing our daily lives. Social distancing, unemployment, closed schools, a shattered economy, and high levels of anxiety. …