Last week David Harel took the microphone at a demonstration in Tel Aviv against settler violence and the policies of Binyamin Netanyahu’s government. Harel is not an ordinary citizen. Nor is he a radical. He presides over Israel’s Academy of Sciences and Humanities and is one of the public voices in the liberal camp that tries to save the country from its worst demons. In his speech, the 76-year-old computer scientist presented the elections on…
Last week David Harel took the microphone at a demonstration in Tel Aviv against settler violence and the policies of Binyamin Netanyahu’s government. Harel is not an ordinary citizen. Nor is he a radical. He presides over Israel’s Academy of Sciences and Humanities and is one of the public voices in the liberal camp that tries to save the country from its worst demons. In his speech, the 76-year-old computer scientist presented the elections on…