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The Blogs: Safety is not cheap
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (692+ words) What Israel Learned the Hard Way about Safety There is an uncomfortable truth many people prefer to ignore. Some of the safest systems in the world were not born out of idealism or luxury but out of bloodshed trauma and…...
The Blogs: Strength as Strategy: Rethinking the Land-for-Peace Era
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (453+ words) For decades, Israeli policy was guided by a powerful assumption: land could be exchanged for peace. This framework became central during the era of Yitzhak Rabin and shaped Israeli strategic thinking for a generation. It was not rooted in weakness,…...
The Blogs: Taking Netanyahu at Face Value: The Response Reveals His Gaza Doctrine
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (186+ words) Last Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu released to the public the official response he gave to the State Comptroller as part of the ombudsman's investigation into the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led atrocities. So far, the doctrine looks coherent: no occupation, no attempt to "solve…...
The Blogs: The Protest Against Mourning
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (622+ words) When the President of Israel arrives in Australia to mourn the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre, the Palestine action group wants to meet him with placards and slogans, predictably, to protest everything except the actual crime. It is no…...
The Blogs: Israel–Somaliland Public Health Laboratory Partnership
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (437+ words) Israel'Somaliland Public Health Laboratory Partnership'The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile…...
The Blogs: The Broken Jewish Leadership Feedback Loop
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (555+ words) Across Jewish communal life, a reactionary posture dominates engagement. We respond to antisemitism, viral lies, campus incidents, and hostile narratives. What began as crisis response has quietly become the default operating system. That gap between rhetoric and resource allocation became…...
The Blogs: Director of Jewish Institution Addresses ‘Israel Beyond the Conflict’
2+ week, 5+ day ago (206+ words) In the second video (portuguese) of the series "Israel Beyond the Conflict," Deborah Chammah, Director of Education at StandWithUs Brazil, appears in Tel Aviv in front of buildings completely destroyed by ballistic missiles launched by Iran in June 2025. The attacks…...
The Blogs: Epstein Files: FBI source alleged Israel, Russia, UAE influence on US officials
2+ week, 5+ day ago (677+ words) Analysts treat all CHS reporting with skepticism until it has been subjected to a rigorous, multi-agency, multi-domain evaluation process. Even then, different agencies may assign different confidence levels based on their own analytic standards and access to corroborating information. In…...
The Blogs: My Sojourn in Israel: Moments of Soulful Serenity, Solidarity and Substance
3+ week, 11+ hour ago (418+ words) A "guru" of mine once taught during a dream analysis workshop not to discount the particular details of a dream " that if an elephant appeared, it was telling us something because the dream could have shown us a zebra instead!...
The Blogs: A watermelon is a capacious fruit
3+ week, 23+ hour ago (459+ words) The calendar says it's time to celebrate the birthday of trees. Here in frigid Boston, tree limbs sag with two inches of snow. It's a jarring contrast. But then Tu B'shvat has always been an incongruous holiday for me. Long…...