3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (479+ words) The declaration tells our story at the singular turning point when the Jewish people returned to history as a people. It is a capsule of distilled Israeli DNA, implanted in our national bloodstream by the founding generation as a gift…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (593+ words) Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, offers the promise of a new beginning. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, asks us to examine our actions, acknowledge where we have fallen short and consider what we must do differently. That reflection…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (961+ words) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is not Spain. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not Israel. This should be obvious. Increasingly, however, the distinction is disappearing from the language of Israel’s relations with Europe. That matters because disagreements between governments…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (578+ words) Western Europe is “on the decline” amid clear demographic changes which are leading to the increased radicalization of their societies and to moral bankruptcy, the director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The unusually blunt remarks came just a…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (837+ words) At a time when Israel’s relations with parts of Europe are under increasing political strain, Israeli and European diplomats, researchers and innovators gathered Tuesday at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem to celebrate a very different kind of relationship—one built…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (655+ words) It is no small question: Ten days before Oct. 7, did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receive a 45-minute phone call from UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan warning him that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar had decided to launch a…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (525+ words) The tension in the Middle East between Muslims who are “accommodationists,” who want peace with Israel, and fundamentalists is not sufficiently understood, according to Yechiel Leiter, Israeli ambassador in Washington. “The Reformation in Christianity took place 1,500 years after Jesus. We’re…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (891+ words) A children’s puppet show in New York made headlines recently—the New York Post called it an “Israel-bashing hate fest”—after performers encouraged children to jeer at Israel. Not a government, not a policy, but an entire people was reduced…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (470+ words) Greece signed a 3-billion-euro ($3.5 billion) air-defense deal with Israel on Monday. On Sunday, the Finnish press reported that Finland, the first foreign customer for the David’s Sling missile defense system, had extended its defense-industrial pact with Jerusalem through 2034. Both governments…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (662+ words) Antisemitism is rising, but much of today’s scourge does not present itself in the crude language of racial inferiority that we associate with an earlier age. We should recognize these ideas for what they are. They are ancient antisemitic themes…...