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Douglas Altabef made aliyah in 2009 with his wife and youngest child from Bedford, New York to Rosh Pina in the Upper Galil. He serves on the Board of several Israel-oriented not for profit organizations, including The Israel Independence Fund and Im Tirtzu.
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Ronen Shoval’s "Holiness and Society” explores Jewish political thought through the lens of the Bible.
Hezbollah has emerged as the great energizer of the Israeli spirit—not by design but by the impact our soldiers have been able to inflict upon them.
We have severely compromised our autonomy and mobility due to our longtime dependence on others.
A confident government, leveraging off a successful army, would be demanding, not asking, for the following conditions in order to effect any kind of a hiatus in the fighting:
Religious coercion in Israel is simply a delusion.
Political Disagreements are Fair Game; however, Existential Threats to Israel should not be Funded by the Israeli Public
The “Million March” in support of the government's judicial reform plan was a coming of age for the Israeli right.
The Israeli Supreme Court wields influence and enjoys a lack of accountability remarkably similar to that of Iran’s Supreme Leader.
In the face of terror, let our ancestors’ courage become ours.
Opposition to proposed judicial reform is being reduced to senseless calls for “disruption” instead of debate.
Israel’s new generation of NGOs is lean, mean, and surprisingly effective.
Pandering to persuade Palestinians, Lapid is off the map.
Israel must not give in to U.S. demands, but protect and nurture its own sovereignty and pride
If we want young people to live and thrive in Israel, we must make sure they can afford to do so.
We must stand up for the rights that place Israel on the right side of law, justice and sovereignty
In one week, Israel goes from mourning victims of the Holocaust and honoring its fallen soldiers to celebrating the nation they helped create.
Israel’s new U.S. ambassador is the anti-David Friedman
We stare with amazement at the specter of a coalition whose strongest binding tie was the across-the-board hatred of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who himself and his party, Likud—though heading the opposition—still command by far the largest plurality of popular support in the country.
Israelis Yair Golan and Oded Goldreich represent object lessons in moral failure.
Israel’s leaders have been looking for love in all the wrong places.
Israel’s “start-up nation” economy is booming, but the country should be prepared to do all it can to prevent bifurcation by the elites.
Simply stated, it seems clear that for an enormous number of American Jews, being aligned with the Progressive focus on intersectionality and its approved list of victims and oppressors is more important, far more important, than a willingness to defend one’s own.
It took participants to say that whatever clothes the “Emperor Hamas” did or did not have, there’s nothing it could do or say to deter their assertion of love for Israel and ineffable tie to the Holy City.
A letter penned by non-Orthodox rabbinical students bemoaning the Jewish state’s “violent suppression of human rights” will go down in the annals of communal infamy.
We live with a functional absurdity. We have invested men, materiel, treasure and brainpower in creating the most advanced - in training, technique and equipment - armed forces in the Middle East, and one of the strongest in the entire world. Yet, for reasons cited above, as well as the ever present fear of international opprobrium, we hamstring ourselves constantly.
In answer to the question of whether such a move makes political sense, maintains ideologically consistency with a straight face, and could be acceptable to all the other parties to the coalition, my answer is a full throated, unambiguous, and hearty
If the Basic Law is overturned, the Court will show its complete contempt for our legislature, the Knesset, and could open the door to further challenges on the nature of Israel as a Jewish State.
Today, the Counter-Culture is the hopelessly deplorable chumps that anchored the country. They are the working-class folks who flocked by the tens of thousands to see Donald Trump and to thank him for his focus on and empathy for the American worker.
The voting preference of American vs Israeli Jews speaks volumes
One area in which Israel is closely following the American model has to do with the mainstream media. In America, you would be hard pressed to know that there is an Antifa, or riots in Portland or shootings at the CHOP autonomous zone in Seattle, if you just watched CNN or MSNBC, or read the New York Times. Similarly in Israel, most media outlets are not covering the “hard core Left” aspects of demonstrations.
America’s loss of vision, commitment and sense of what made it America, will be a disaster for the entire Western world.
While the renascence of the Netanyahu-led Likud grabbed most of the media attention about the recent election, there was much to note and ponder in the resurgent Joint List Arab vote - both concerning and encouraging. The negative implications are far more evident and obvious: empowering a political leadership that feels no meaningful identification with […]
What does it mean to be in favor of a realistic two-state solution? Who’s solution are we talking about? Is it mutually agreed upon or imposed? What form does it take — meaning what is envisioned for the second state, Palestine?
As the symbol of clarity of vision, 2020 is the gold standard of seeing clearly, without distortions or blurs.
Living in Israel is to learn that demographics is another form of warfare
The Left’s hypocrisy regarding foreign interference in elections aside, such interference is both dangerous and illegal.
Our strength comes from Middle Israel, from the millions here who know, while maybe not being able to fully articulate it, that Israel is a just, humane and decent society.
If being a Nazi means speaking out for Israel, defending the integrity of the State and its key institutions such as the IDF, embracing the Zionist values that have produced a vibrant Jewish and democratic state, then teach me how to goose step and paint a funny mustache on me
For many American Jews it is a source of profound discomfort and embarrassment that Jews actually carry weapons and fight.
Right now, there is a gnawing fear that the gestures that Trump has taken are merely the first shoe to drop, and that there will be payback in the form of concessions that Israel will be asked to make. This would be a shame, because these steps were right and appropriate in and of themselves.
All countries respect the rights of other countries to exert their sovereignty in such ways as a particular nation sees fit. When Israel seeks to protect its borders or transition points to sensitive areas, it is frequently met with contempt – contempt for its soldiers guarding these locations, and, by extension, contempt for the nation itself.
Influence is no longer a function of overriding wealth or coercive power. When the Elites, who have been used to telling regular folks what their values should be, lose their monopoly, they often lash out.
As for the New Israel Fund, I didn’t make aliyah to have my future controlled by people who didn’t and wouldn’t make aliyah, but nevertheless feel entitled to tell me how to live my life.
The Jewish people were not chosen to be Miss Congeniality. Quite the opposite. We were chosen to be the bearer of the reality of God’s sovereignty in the world, and with it, a demanding set of expectations, even for Gentiles.
In other words, how by any rational playbook can one even begin to explain anti-Semitism?
The price tag perpetrators have become the symbol for leftist hatred of the "settler" movement.
Jerusalem? No way. Its out of central casting for It's A Small World.
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