1999: A Lucrative Year For Mr. Larsen and his Wife

They were also among the winners of the $100,000 International Activist Award, presented biannually by the Gleitsman Foundation. They shared the award with at least two other senior members of the Peres Center, Yossi...

Will the Casino in Jericho Once Again Open its Doors to Israeli clients?

Israeli gamblers will be disappointed: Following the IDF withdrawal from Palestinian cities, including Jericho, the Palestinians announced that the Jericho casino is prepared to open its gates to masses of gamblers, however the IDF...

The Jews run the risk of another genocide

I send you my article published on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day. I send you as well my review of the latest book by Pierluigi Battista, "Letter to an anti-Zionist friend". Battista,...

Op-Ed: Hanan Porat, Man of Kiruv: An Accidental Connection

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10690#.To6od5sr2so Between Purim and Pesach in 1973, while learning at Pardes Institute in its first year, as I was just crossing the Rubicon to become an observant Jew, the opportunity presented itself to visit Kibbutz...

What UNRWA Should not Teach in its Schools

Member, Advisory Council on the Comprehensive study of incitement in Middle East textbooks, commissioned by the Council for Religious Institutions in the Holy Land, an interfaith association of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders UNRWA is...

Israel & UAE work together against UNRWA?

Writing from the perspective of a journalist who has provided intense coverage of UNRWA since 1987, there are at least two reasons to question the veracity of a widely circulated yet unsourced news report,...

Professor Irwin Cotler on Yom HaShoah

Yom Hashoah - National Holocaust Remembrance Day - is a poignant and painful historical moment of remembrance and reminder - of bearing witness - of learning and acting upon the enduring and universal lessons...

Running for cover

Pick one of these definitions, and you will have a perfect explanation of current developments. “Attempt to guard yourself from a bad situation or from being criticised.” “Attempt to avoid the fallout from some negative outcome...

Russia warns Israel – Stay out of Ukraine

“Israel seems to be going to supply weapons to the Kiev regime. A very rash step. It will destroy all interstate relations between our countries,” he said on his Telegram account. The statement is ominous...

75 not out

As we celebrate seventy-five years of re-established Jewish independence, I can’t help thinking is Israel still loved at 75? When it comes to Israel in general and Jews in particular, the question should elicit a...