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Weekly Commentary: Follow Action Plan: Put Ministry of Defense In Charge of Coronavirus NOW

Thirteen years ago the Ministry of Health issued "The Pandemic Flu Health System Readiness Program 2007" https://www.health.gov.il/Subjects/emergency/preparation/DocLib/tora/BIO_TORA_PANDEMIC_FLU.pdf The plan set that following the WHO declaration of...

For Israel, recognizing another enemy is second nature

Among the world's democracies fighting the coronavirus, Israel has so far been by far the most successful. With a population of about 8.6 million,...

Plagued by failure: ‘The Yom Kippur War of the Israeli health system

The summer of 2006 was a wake-up call for the home front. Israeli civilians, it became apparent during the Second Lebanon War, were inadequately...

Badly-Hit Israeli Town Succeeds in Beating Coronavirus

As Israel remains under lockdown and the coronavirus continues to spread, one small community appears to have done the impossible and stopped the spread...

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (March 25 – 31, 2020)

While Hamas has focused most of its attention on trying to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the Gaza Strip, this past week a...

What the ConronaVirus Pandemic Teaches About Hopes for Middle East Peace

So much of our world has changed so drastically and so dramatically these past few weeks, leaving us literally and figuratively gasping for air....

Behind The Scene with David Bedein: March 30th, 2020

Behind The Scene With David Bedein from Israel - March 30th, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz64TcZVUPo

Don’t Blame G-d, Blame Beijing and Tehran

From Biblical times through the Nazi Holocaust, to the present suffering in northeast Nigeria, to our local emergency room, man’s reaction to innocents’ suffering...

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas Blame Israel for the Spread of Coronavirus (Updated to...

Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have been particularly worried about the spread of the virus from...

The EU supports UNRWA to safeguard its own diplomatic stance

The European Union is coming closer to admitting that there are political aims behind its funding of the UN Relief and Works Agency for...