Israel Resource Review

I am among those who believe that a political settlement is a good thing. Rafael (Raful) Eitan was once asked if he supported a peace settlement between Israel and Syria based on the principle...

On January 1, 2021 an order given by the IDF Commander of the Central Command went into effect banning the banks in Judea and Samaria from providing banking services to Palestinian prisoners, released prisoners...

A bipartisan bill has been proposed in US Congress that would require the US Secretary of state to submit annual reports reviewing the educational material used by Palestinian Authority and UNRWA schools in Palestinian...

This past week the level of violence demonstrated at the return march was again relatively low (about 7,500 people participated in the march events). However, during the march IEDs were thrown at IDF forces,...

There is growing evidence that Fatah, the Palestinian faction that today dominates the PLO, may not remain the power center of Palestinian politics in the post-Arafat era. Hamas is preparing itself to inherit the...

Parents and teachers are furious with the Education Ministry's decision to allow principals of junior high schools to decide not to teach bible studies in the seventh grade or, alternatively, to elect to study...

http://www.michaelfreund.org/12889/negev-beduin This past Sunday, the largest act of organized theft in the Jewish state's history took place. And the perpetrator was none other than the government of Israel. At its first session since last week's elections, the...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/the-us-has-been-speaking-to-hamas-through-backchannels-for-o JERUSALEM - United States officials have been holding secret back-channel talks with Hamas over the last six months to discuss their role in the newly formed unity government, according to two senior diplomatic sources...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/12/19/how-the-world-enabled-25-years-of-palestinian-decline/ One of the saddest comments I’ve ever heard was Gaza resident Ziad Ashour’s statement to the New York Times last week. Ever since the first intifada erupted in 1987, the 43-year-old butcher said, “things...

We are on the cusp of a new era of terror financing, that of mobile payments or "m-payments." An m-payment system is being developed by members of the GSM Association to enable migrant workers...