Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not attend the vote on the Basic Law: Torah Study at all. Two days later he showed up for the second bill, took his seat, then left before lawmakers cast their votes. Opposition members shouted "shame" and "go" as he walked out. Both bills passed that week, both years in the making, both centered on military service for ultra-Orthodox men. The first enshrines Torah study as a fundamental value in Israel's Basic Law, the constitutional lay

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not attend the vote on the Basic Law: Torah Study at all. Two days later he showed up for the second bill, took his seat, then left before lawmakers cast their votes. Opposition members shouted "shame" and "go" as he walked out. Both bills passed that week, both years in the making, both centered on military service for ultra-Orthodox men. The first enshrines Torah study as a fundamental value in Israel's Basic Law, the constitutional lay

2025 FRONTeras Magazine Vol. 1 No. 3 Issue The road to Las Rucias curves west through sun-seared mesquite and heat-drunk gravel, past the Rio Grande’s sluggish bend and into a stretch of land history has largely abandoned. The war, supposedly drawing to a close, stalled here in the thicket and left a final mark. In November 1863, Union General Nathaniel Banks seized Brownsville to sever the Confederacy’s access to Matamoros. The Rio Grande became a lifeline for rebel survival