Israel's future

Israeli director Yaron Kaftori’s 2010 film 2048 imagines a dystopian future in which Israel has ceased to exist, fading into history. He needn’t have worried.

Frightened Israelis have lost faith in the rickety structure. At the root of the historic crisis in which we are trapped is the “mother of all problems” – disagreement over the rules of the game.

New ‘Grandmothers for Democracy’ group vows to prevent establishment of dictatorship, protect the country for their grandchildren’s generation.