Three questions Israelis are asking… and three that matter more 

Isidor I. Rabi, the Nobel laureate in physics was once asked, "Why did you become a scientist, rather than a doctor or lawyer or businessman, like the other immigrant kids in your neighbourhood?"

Dr. Rabi's answer was profound: "My mother made me a scientist without ever intending it. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: 'So? Did you learn anything today?' But not my mother. She always asked me a different question. 'Izzy,' she would say, 'did you ask a good question today?' That difference - asking good questions -made me become a scientist!"

I feel I’m living in a country filled with people asking the wrong questions. Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the three questions that have consumed most  airtime in Israel are: 

As expected, the views of Israelis on each of these issues divide neatly along the lines of whether they are supporters or opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu. 

Those who vote for the coalition feel that the people responsible for not preventing October 7 are the IDF, Shin Bet, Mossad, the Attorney General, the Supreme Court, and everyone else aside from the elected ministers in the cabinet on that day. They support a compromise with the Haredim for the sake of preserving Netanyahu’s coalition, and they have opposed the trial from day one, which they view as a collection of fabricated charges designed to bring down a popular leader from the Right.