Defeating Foggy Bottom in Israel
History will mark Israel's election last year as a watershed moment. Whether the country fully identifies and supports Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu really doesn't matter. As Minister Zeev Elkin said yesterday...
[podcast] Daniel Luria: Why Does the World Care When Jews Build Buildings?
Daniel Luria, Executive Director of Ateret Cohanim sat with me and gave an update on new building permits in the Old Yemenite Village (Silwan), PA's prblem with praising terror, and 50 years of reunificatio of ...
The Front Lines are Tel Aviv
“You cannot continue to keep people in a situation where they are under your occupation and expect them to come to the conclusion that everything is fine.”
-Ron Huldai
For years now, Tel Aviv has lived in a...
Ending the Arab Occupation of Al-Haleddiya St.
Al-Haleddeyi St. may seem like an unlikely location for the next stage of Jewish growth in Jerusalem, but this small street that descends from the Christian quarter to Ha Gai Street into what most consider the ...
Is Lieberman a Closet Dove?
With the ascendancy of Avigdor Lieberman to the post of Defense Minister, politicians from across the spectrum were ready for the Russian right wing populist to start assassinating Hamas leaders as soon as he c...
Biafra, Israel, and the Hypocricy of the West
Reports continue to race in about scores of wounded and dead Biafrans. With the violence initiated by gangs backed by the Nigerian government, one tries to grapple with the sheer trantsparent morality of both t...
Is the Israeli Government Empowering Islam’s Disregard for History?
"Israel is not the problem on the Temple Mount; Israel is the solution,"Bibi Netanyahu said back in October 2015. "We're keeping the status quo, we're the only ones who will do it, and we will continue to do th...
King Ayi: We Have a lot of Work Ahead
The first thing one notices when they meet King David Ayi, is a deep sense of personal humility. It is this humility which caused him to shy away from his royal lineage after being sent to America in 1987. Des...
Regavim Ready to Go to the Supreme Court to Defend Bedouin Rights
When the Begin-Prawer Plan, officially known as the Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev was passed in September 2011, advocates for the bill believed it would bring much needed reforms to...
Why does UNESCO Insist on Rewriting Israel’s History?
“UNESCO ignores the unique Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, the site of two temples for 1,000 years, and the place to which Jews prayed for thousands of years,” Netanyahu said in a statement last month.
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