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77 years ago, the United Nations voted to recognize the independent State of Israel, an event that was 2,000 years in the making. The prior independent State of Israel was destroyed by the Romans after the Bar Kokhba Rebellion in the year…

I, an Israeli who lives in Tel Aviv and have had to spend hours in my safe…

Looking at the facts: Netanyahu’s sudden trip to Washington, the unusual deployment of Egyptian forces in Sinai, the flood of weapons worth 6 billion shekels arriving in Israel, the threats from Arab states, and Naftali Bennett’s…

France and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are cosponsoring a resolution at the United Nations supporting the “right of return” of the Palestinians to Israel within its pre-June 1967 borders (see, for example, section 14 of the New York…

Netanyahu is desperately looking for scapegoats for the international isolation he has led Israel into. In this country, it is the opposition and the “Kaplanists,” and in Europe, it is the Muslim immigrants who are supposedly coercing the…

For over two decades I have been writing about similarities and connections between Islam and Judaism in the areas of law and theology. Here I turn to some similar insights and feelings of eighteenth century Hassidic Rabbis and a medieval…

There are moments when you stumble upon an image on social media that shakes you to your core, not because of its artistry, not because of its daring, but because of its brazenness. This week, I came across such an image: the outline of Gaza,…

European politicians fixate on Israeli policies while ignoring their continent’s demographic and economic collapse

Europe appears more obsessed with Israeli politics than Israelis themselves, all while ignoring catastrophic challenges that…

Israel – My Eternal Love, My Home of Memories

On special days, like the beginning of a new year, my mind travels down memory lane. And again and again, it always returns to Israel. Israel is not just a place I once lived in, it is my first…

It’s that time of year again: time to reflect back on the journey of the last year, figure out what went well and what didn’t, make amends with oneself and others, and above all, keep looking toward the future.

The keyword in Hebrew for…