Many of you may know that Shai and I were asked by the editors of the Guardian news blog to contribute a series of articles on the upcoming Israeli elections, scheduled for March 28.

My first article, Stitching Together Israeli Identities, is now up on the site.

Shai's first article is called The Promise of Kadima.

I'm really curious to see what the responses will be like.

UPDATE: Well, the comments are predictably hilarious. Maybe five people actually addressed the content of the article; the rest just saw the word "Israel" and started grinding their axes. Ah well.  Savtadotty, thank you for the lovely comment. You are my star.