France is trying to woo back entrepreneurs it has lost to Israel. It would be smarter to correct the conditions that drove them away in the first place.

The media’s coverage of Israel is slanted by reporters’ chummy relationship with NGOs—and with their misplaced desire to “help” the deserving side (not Israel). So says a former AP journalist in a must-read article.

It’s usually failed peace talks (or failed boycotts) that put Israel in the news, but some attention-grabbing domestic reforms are sweeping the Jewish state this week, with enormous consequences for the country’s Arab and ultra-orthodox minorities. Understanding the dizzying array of domestic forces in this tiny country of eight million people is important not just for US officials, but for many millions of American voters.