March 4, 2020

Three Israeli elections reconfirm two basic facts about Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara addresses their supporters on the night of the Israeli elections, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — It took […]
March 2, 2020

Israeli company develops kit to diagnose COVID-19 in half an hour

by Abigail Klein Leichman (Israel21c) — Israeli company BATM of Hod Hasharon announced that its biomedical division has developed a diagnostics kit to detect coronavirus from saliva samples in less than half an hour. CEO Dr. Zvi Marom tells ISRAEL21c […]
February 26, 2020

Uncomfortable questions that Churches for Middle East Peace really need to answer

Rev. Dr. Mae Cannon, executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace, speaks at the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference in Oklahoma in 2018. (Photo by Dexter Van Zile) by Dexter Van Zile (CAMERA) — Founded in 1984, Churches for […]
February 25, 2020

Israeli Arabs flatly reject idea of becoming part of a Palestinian state

A view of Israel’s largest Arab city, Umm al-Fahm. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. by Ariel Ben Solomon (JNS) — Israeli Arab citizens flatly reject the idea floated in the recently released U.S. “Peace to Prosperity” plan that envisions the possibility that […]
February 24, 2020

Israel events at the National Religious Broadcasters convention

As thousands of Christian media professionals gather in Nashville this week for the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, Israel will have a prominent place. The conference, which will be held from Feb. 24 to 28 at the Gaylord Opryland, will include […]
February 23, 2020

Talking about my grandparents in a roomful of Christians

Heather Johnston (center) and participants on a USIEA trip to Israel by Richard Friedman  There I was. To an outsider it may have seemed an unlikely place, but I felt at home. At a dinner gathering in Birmingham the other […]
February 21, 2020

When the Western Wall was a Battleground for Jewish Rights

by Moshe Phillips The book “The Western Wall Wars” (Whirlwind Press) appeared in late 2019 and details the stories about the young men who, from 1930 to 1947, violated British regulations which banned the sounding the shofar at the Western Wall […]
February 19, 2020

The Business of Peace: Water for Gaza, Co-Working Jobs for Jews and Palestinians

Yehuda Cohen and Arlene Bridges Samuels at Lipski in the Barkan Industrial Park in the territories by Arlene Bridges Samuels President Trump’s “Deal of the Century” has generated too many opinions to count. Politicians, media and citizens argue while the […]
February 17, 2020

Build, Bibi, Build!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud Party event in Lod, Israel, on Feb. 11, 2020. Photo by Flash90. by Caroline Glick (JNS) — The United Nations Human Rights Council’s release on Feb. 12 of its blacklist of companies […]
February 17, 2020

The long history of Palestinian rejectionism, in brief

The Mufti of Jerusalem, Yasser Arafat, Saeb Erekat, Mahmoud Abbas, images via Wikimedia Commons by Dr. Edy Cohen (BESA Center) — Taking into account all the peace initiatives proposed to end the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs […]
February 16, 2020

Nothing is permanent: A history of non-aggression pacts in the Muslim world

by Harold Rhode (JNS) — The news media is filled with reports that the Arab world—most notably Saudi Arabia and countries in the Persian Gulf, might be prepared to sign a non-aggression pact/truce with Israel. What does this mean, however, […]