Monthly Archives: May 2023
Analysis: An operation that won’t change Gaza but can offer quiet to the South
On the day that a truce between Israel and the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in Gaza took hold, it is clear that last week’s escalation won’t change the Gaza Strip, but it does...
Combating the ‘Nakba’ narrative with truth on Declaration Day
The Israel Forever Foundation has launched a unique online program designed to encourage engagement with Israel’s “Declaration Day” and combat the Palestinian “Nakba” narrative.
The two-day program, filled with videos, performances and more, launched on...
Jerusalem deputy mayor in Morocco to launch program on women’s advancement
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is visiting Morocco for the launch of FemForward’s MENA program.
FemForward, which aims to address gender disparity in managerial positions within the tech industry, is launching its MENA cohort in...
Israel cancels mandatory quarantine for COVID-19 patients
Israelis testing positive for COVID-19 will as of Tuesday no longer be required to enter quarantine, the country’s Health Ministry announced on Sunday.
However, although quarantine is no longer mandatory, it is still recommended, according...
Netanyahu, Smotrich applaud S&P AA- Israel credit rating
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday praised credit ratings agency Standard & Poor for maintaining Israel’s AA- credit rating, calling the move a validation of his government’s economic policies.
“Israel’s positive rating has been...
Scholars expound on Mount Ebal curse tablet with oldest Hebrew text
A lead tablet found at a site where millions of Jews and Christians believe the Israelite leader Joshua built an altar contains the oldest Hebrew text ever found in the Land of Israel as...
A 75-year-old makes ‘aliyah’ in time for Israel’s 75th anniversary year
In a way, Daniel Goldschmiedt and the modern State of Israel have grown up together. They both recently turned 75. Their Jewish identity is central to their lives. And now that Daniel and his...
A 92-year-old makes military bases her first stop in Israel … 16 times
Camilla Maas makes it clear that she doesn’t speak for Israelis. She doesn’t speak for American or international Jewry. The nonagenarian states plainly that she speaks for herself.
And for Sar-El, which partners in the United...
Germany’s far-right comes to Yad Vashem
Ever since its foundation in 1953 by an act of the Knesset, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has served admirably as Israel’s national memorial to the Holocaust. Millions of visitors have passed through its doors,...
Legal Order In World Politics: A Hobbesian Dilemma
“Where there is no Common Power, there is no Law….”- Leviathan, Chapter XIII
A Hobbesian World
The seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes associated world politics with the “state of nature.” In this anarchic state, war is...