Qatar ups funding for UN Palestinian refugees agency

Qatar pledged more funding Tuesday for the United Nations’ Palestinian refugees organization. The Qatar Fund for Development announced an $18 million contribution to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The money...

Mahmoud Abbas plays Benny Gantz for a fool

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz must have known that hosting Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha’ayin would arouse the ire of the right. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have cloaked the...

𝐘𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 – 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫; 𝟖𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫

(personal recollections from Yaakov Orenstein, z"l, Lechi member) For eight months since I arrived in Tel Aviv until my arrest, I met with Yair almost every day. We lived on Rines Street in a rented...

A Guide to Fact Checking the New Israel Fund

REVIEW REPORT: DANIEL SOKATCH'S "CAN WE TALK ABOUT ISRAEL?" Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund since 2009 and founding Executive Director of Bend the Arc (formally, the Progressive Jewish Alliance) recently wrote a...

Can it get worse?

As we teeter on the edge of a new civil year the question on most people’s minds is whether 2022 will be worse than 2021. Although my crystal ball is just as murky as anyone...

Tis the season

It’s precisely at this time of the year when Christians worldwide celebrate the birth of a Jewish baby in Judea that the irony of the situation we face today becomes apparent. As politicians, media and...

Iran’s “UAV Army” – A Global Threat

What goes on in the Middle East doesn't stay in the Middle East The purpose of this special report is to present the existing threat deriving from the Iranian "UAV army" in the Middle East....
Former Amona settler Nachum Schwartz, 43, at the site where he expects the Israeli government to build homes for his and other families in Emek Shiloh, West Bank. After Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the Israeli settlements in Amona were built illegally on private Palestinian land, Israeli police evicted and bulldozed move than eight homes. In the meatime, the former residents have been living in a nearby hostel in hopes the Israeli government will make good on plans to rebuild their home in a new settlement nearby in Emek Shiloh. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Linda Davidson

Palestinian Land Grab in Area C of West Bank

At a Knesset hearing last week, the Regavim movement reported that from 2019 to 2021, Palestinians built 5,907 illegal structures in Area C, the portion of the West Bank under full Israeli military and...

The Newest Anti-Israel UN Action Must Be Challenged – Now

Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation No. 654,     December 2021 The UN Human Rights Council has launched the most hostile anti-Israel “inquiry” in UN history, headed by the former...

Opinion: Roadmap to a true alliance between Japan, Israel on 70th anniv. of ties...

Next year, Japan and Israel will reach a major milestone: 70 years since relations were established between these two unique democracies. In that time, both countries have made immense strides from uncertain times following...