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When Holocaust memory is softened, something else is lost.

Every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, we return to the same instruction: remember. But how we remember, matters just as much as what we remember – especially now.

This week, Tel…

American aircraft carriers are steaming toward the Persian Gulf, and the Trump administration is weighing military options against Iran. Airstrikes might bring Tehran to its knees. But they won’t touch the regime’s most reliable cash…

May 1967 was a frightening month for Israel. The Soviet Union had informed Egypt that Israeli forces were massing on the Syrian border (in preparation for an attack). This intelligence was a complete fabrication but, regardless, the Arab…

You don’t have to be a philosopher of language – or George Orwell – to know that language is not just a tool for describing reality; it also shapes it. Speech changes reality. And yet, it seems that many fail to internalize this and…

Shulamit Cohen lived a life few could imagine: a housewife raising children in Beirut while secretly passing critical intelligence to Israel and helping Jewish refugees reach safety. Over more than a decade, she balanced domestic…

It is hard to grasp how many soldiers and hostages have been killed, murdered, or wounded because political survival was placed above human life. And despite repeated warnings, we are once again handed the same package that “surprised” us…

In his utopian novel Altneuland, Theodor Herzl depicted a fictional election in the future ‘New Society’. Among the candidates was a certain Dr. Geyer, a religious fanatic and racial nationalist described as a ‘demagogue who spouts…

January 26, 2026 will be remembered as the day when Israelis and Jews everywhere breathed a sigh of relief and felt a heavy weight removed from our backs. For more than two years we woke up every morning and lay down every evening asking:…

The Day After: Building Israel’s Future When the Last Hostage Comes Home

January 26th, 2026 will be remembered as a painful and defining day in Israeli history. On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the final hostage from…

The Old Certainties

For decades, investors and insurers spoke of political risk—the possibility that government actions might impair investments or disrupt operations. The concept was well understood, the insurance products mature, the…