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The Israel Defense Forces’ Tactical Command College (TCC), the Israeli equivalent of the West Point military academy, is increasingly shaping the professional cadre of the Israeli military’s ground forces and leaving its mark on future military leaders.

As the year winds down and a third near-standstill takes place, more than 100 Israeli medical experts took a welcome ax to conventional coronavirus wisdom.

While across the Middle East Israel’s allies chase off and ban Islamic movements, Israel is missing an opportunity that could soon slip through its fingers.

{Reposted from the JCPA website} Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas welcomed Vice President Joe Biden to his Ramallah office, March 2016. (Arab Press) As Joe Biden’s...

My whole life has been dedicated to saving others, so how could this happen to me, I thought?

If the IDF continues to operate according to its old conventions while Hezbollah continues to adapt itself to new realities, it could find itself defeated. IDF commanders need new capabilities to safeguard and support the forces on the ground.

The left remains the only power that competes with the Likud for power. And if Likud and its coalition partners do not win 61 seats in the upcoming elections, the left will continue to control the national agenda regardless of what the public thinks.

The coronavirus pandemic has created a new kind of culture shock. It has affected essential and highly personal elements of many people’s lives within their own environments. A culture shock of this magnitude has not occurred since WWII. When the pandemic ends, societies will be quite different from what they were in the pre-coronavirus era.

The return of a Democratic administration to the White House is considered a nightmare by both the Royal Court in Riyadh and the presidential palace in Cairo. The projected return of “politically correct” values to the center of US foreign policy, in addition to President-elect Joe Biden’s commitment to return to the JCPOA, should stimulate the leaderships of both Arab states to initiate an urgent dialogue with Biden to protect their critical interests in the region.

As a new era dawns between Morocco and Israel, let honesty and transparency prevail.

Mr Trump's Middle East legacy... completely redefined the landscape of the region from the chaos and conflict that prevailed when Mr Obama left office. Nowadays, the momentum in the region is moving towards peace, not conflict....

This month, the last month of the year, Human Rights Day was commemorated. Every year, all over the world, people and organizations hold ceremonies...

Rav Asher Weiss, shlita…stated that he strongly recommends taking the vaccine.

In a special piece, the editors-in-chief of “Israel Hayom” and “L’observateur du Maroc et d’Afrique” call on Israel and Morocco to join forces to fight extremism.

A Chanukah-week trip to Dubai taught me that Israel and Jews are admired when they are strong and believing. Emiratis respect Israelis for their loyalty to ancient heritage and for their belief in the power of Jewish history. Believe it or not, the Emiratis seem to understand – perhaps better than we do ourselves, sometimes – that these anchors of identity are the greatest source of strength and authenticity.

Today, the Abraham Accords are not necessarily a bolt out of the blue. Perhaps the potential for Jewish-Arab cooperation existed all along.

The perpetrators of both attacks on Monday must be apprehended before they act again, and Israeli security forces must nip in the bud any potential wave of copycat terrorism.

During his career in Middle Eastern foreign policy, he’s made mistakes that have had life-and-death consequences for Israel.

We have to dispel the illusion in the foreign-policy establishment that a deal, any deal, is the penultimate objective of diplomacy.

Jewish law was sensitive to animal welfare long before Western civilization—typified by the European Court of Justice—ever recognized it as a concern worthy of human attention.

The question is what took so long.

In an interview with the Saudi press, Israel’s defense minister reiterated past failed paradigms that put the country’s national security at risk. He should retract or resign.

As with so many other laws, coronavirus regulations are going unenforced at the politically volatile site—and Jews and Arabs alike are paying the price as the infection rate soars.

What is it, dear misguided, Progressive Jews, that frightens you about being Jewish in America that you align yourselves with the “other” Progressive groups who attack Jews and Israel? 

The liberal American media that has turned into the vehicle of the Islamo-Leftism crowd is joining the likes of al-Qaida and Islamic State by accusing France of being an Islamophobic country and deserving the violence it is attracting.

He remains a product of his time and an enigma. Was he on the side of the Jewish people—or their enemies?

The method of “shechita” has been twisted and distorted by anti-Semites for various tales of blood libel and theologically mandated cruelty allegedly practiced by Jews down the ages.

President Trump is exceptionally unpopular among secular American Jews, despite his groundbreaking approach to Middle East peace and active efforts on Israel’s behalf. Many American Jews have simply stopped caring about both Israel and Judaism, a point that has not escaped the notice of the American elites. If Jews stop caring about themselves, nobody else will.

And that's when it sunk in: The rope actually was strong enough to keep me connected to the track above.

This week, I spoke to a liberal friend of mine and reminded myself to avoid politics. When he said Trump was the single worst president for Israel and Jews, I had to bite my tongue a little harder than usual.