Yftach Golov

Silence in the face of the threat of institutionalized political violence will make us complicit Pausing Israel’s disastrous judicial reform came at a frightening price: to keep his coalition together, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to buy off his most extreme coalition partner, Otzma Yehudit’s Itamar Ben-Gvir. The price: a “national guard” under the direction of the very same politician convicted for political violence.

AbstractStudies of mating and reproductive behavior have contributed much to our understanding of various animals' ecological success. The desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, is an important agricultural pest. However, knowledge of locust courtship and precopulatory behavior is surprisingly limited. Here we provide a comprehensive study of the precopulatory behavior of both sexes of the desert locust in the gregarious phase, with particular emphasis on the conflict between the sexes.