Assembled by Ken Stein and Michele Freesman, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and the Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org 

Jonathan Ariel, “The Real Lesson of the Afghanistan Debacle,” BESA Center, September 10, 2021, https://besacenter.org/the-real-lesson-of-the-afghanistan-debacle/

Naama Barak, “Israeli clean-living tech reaches Latin American locales,” Israel21C, September 27, 2021, https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-clean-living-tech-reaches-latin-american-locales/ 

BICOM Staff, “The Bennett-Lapid Government and Regional Priorities: Change or Continuity,” BICOM, September 27, 2021, https://www.bicom.org.uk/analysis/bicom-briefing-the-bennett-lapid-government-and-regional-priorities-change-or-continuity/ 

Anat Ben Haim, “Rebuilding the Syrian Military: Significance for Israel,” INSS, September 15, 2021, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/syrian-army/ 

Naftali Bennett, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 27, 2021, https://israeled.org/resources/documents/prime-minister-naftali-bennetts-address-to-the-united-nations-general-assembly/ 

Lazar Berman and Aaron Boxerman, “Over 300 prominent Iraqis publicly call for full peace with Israel,” Times of Israel, September 24, 2021, https://www.timesofisrael.com/250-prominent-iraqis-publicly-call-for-full-peace-with-israel 

Antony J. Blinken, Yair Lapid, Nasser Bourita, Anwar Gargash, Sheikh Abdulla Bin Rashid Al Khalifa, “At the One Year Anniversary of the Abraham Accords: Normalization Agreements in Action,” US State Department, September 17, 2021, https://www.state.gov/at-the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-abraham-accords-normalization-agreements-in-action/ 

Camp David Negotiations,” Discussion with Hermann Eilts, Samuel Lewis, William Quandt, Hal Saunders, Dan Kurtzer and Ken Stein, November 1993 https://israeled.org/november-1993-camp-david-negotiations-discussion-with-hermann-eilts-samuel-lewis-william-quandt-hal-saunders-dan-kurtzer-and-ken-stein-hempstead-ny/

Ben Caspit, “100 days in, Bennett’s government challenged on Iran, Gaza,” Al-Monitor, September 17, 2021,  https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/100-days-bennetts-government-challenged-iran-gaza#ixzz7830c4NuV 

Elliott Chodoff, “Israeli civil defense: A critical tactic, but a poor strategy,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, December 16, 2019, https://besacenter.org/israeli-civil-defense 

Yossi Cohen, “Fall of Afghanistan raises alarming questions about the Middle East,” YNet News, September 1, 2021, https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byy5da2bt 

Udi Dekel, “Hamas has its Own Logic. What is Israel’s Logic?” INSS, September 4, 2021, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/hamas-reason/ 

Jonathan H. Ferziger, “On Abraham Accords Anniversary, Biden Is Tepid About Israeli-Arab Peace,” Foreign Policy, September 10, 2021, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/10/biden-israel-uae-bahrain-abraham-peace-trump-kushner/ 

Yochai Guiski and Kim Noach, “Urban Planning and Adaptation: Saving 0.5-1 Percent of Israel’s Annual GDP,” INSS, September 13, 2021, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/urban-planning/ 

Haisam Hassanein, “The Bennett-Sisi Meeting: A Rare Chance to Publicly Boost Relations,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 13, 2021, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/bennett-sisi-meeting-rare-chance-publicly-boost-relations 

Simon Henderson, “Qatar’s Council Election Has Gulf-Wide Implications,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 30, 2021, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/qatars-council-election-has-gulf-wide-implications 

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “Ahead of the Jewish New Year – National Mood Pessimistic,” Israel Democracy Institute, September 1, 2021, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/36250 

Ben Hubbard, “Lebanon Gets New Prime Minister Amid Economic Meltdown,” New York Times, September 10, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/middleeast/lebanon-prime-minister-government.html?searchResultPosition=2 

Ben Hubbard and Hwaida Saad, “With Fuel from Iran, Hezbollah Steps In Where Lebanon Has Failed,” New York Times, September 16, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/world/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-iran-fuel.html?searchResultPosition=1 

INSS, “Israel-UAE-US: A Year of Cooperation,” September 13, 2021, (1:30) Discussion, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vdu2-mMjuI

Efraim Inbar, “The Egypt-Israel Common Strategic Agenda,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, September 14, 2021, https://jiss.org.il/en/inbar-the-egypt-israel-common-strategic-agenda/ 

Tala Michel Issa, “Saudi Arabia holds meeting to discuss current, future investments in smart cities,” Al-Arabiya, September 29, 2021, https://english.alarabiya.net/business/technology/2021/09/29/Saudi-Arabia-holds-meeting-to-discuss-current-future-investments-in-smart-cities 

Lisa Klug, “Israeli-grown vanilla is about to disrupt the industry,” Israel21C, September 20, 2021, https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-grown-vanilla-is-about-to-disrupt-the-industry/ 

Limor Lavie, “Family Law in Egypt and Iraq: Social Media Campaigns against Limiting Women’s Rights to Guardianship and Custody of their Children,” Moshe Dayan Center: Beehive, September 29, 2021, https://dayan.org/content/family-law-egypt-and-iraq-social-media-campaigns-against-limiting-womens-rights 

Bernard Henry Levy,  ”Promising Liasons,” (Israel and the UAE), The American Interest, September 5, 2021, https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/09/05/promising-liaisons-bhl-israel-uae/

Ido Levy, “Biden UN Speech Misunderstands the Point of ‘Forever Wars’—in the Mideast and Elsewhere,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 20, 2021, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/biden-un-speech-misunderstands-point-forever-wars-mideast-and-elsewhere 

Institute for Policy and Strategy, ”The Challenges and opportunities for Israel’s national security in the coming year,”  Reichman University (IDC), September 2021, https://www.idc.ac.il/en/research/ips/pages/insights/insights-30-9-21-ips.aspx

Marc Lynch and Shibley Telhami, “Academic experts believe that Middle East politics are actually getting worse,” Washington Post, September 17, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/17/academic-experts-believe-that-middle-east-politics-are-actually-getting-worse/ 

Jacob Magid, “‘We’ve only just begun’: Abraham Accords partners mark one year since signing,” Times of Israel, September 14, 2021, https://www.timesofisrael.com/weve-only-just-begun-abraham-accords-partners-mark-one-year-since-signing/ 

Benny Morris, “On Nuclear Iran, Israel Faces Two Terrible Options,” Haaretz, September 27, 2021, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-two-terrible-options-live-with-a-nuclear-iran-or-bomb-it-1.10243995 

Omri Nahmias, “Abraham Accords are going to continue shaping the Middle East,” Jerusalem Post, September 18, 2021, https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/jared-kushers-institute-hosts-abraham-accords-anniversary-with-diplomats-679557 

Michael Oren, “Is US aid a threat to Israel?,” Tablet, September 23, 2021, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/aid-israel-michael-oren 

Joel Parker and Sarah Cahn, “Hizballah’s Gain, Lebanon’s Pain,” Moshe Dayan Center: Tel Aviv Notes, September 14, 2021, https://dayan.org/content/hizballahs-gain-lebanons-pain-0 

Inbal Orpaz and David Siman-Tov, “The Unfinished Campaign: Social Media in Operation Guardian of the Walls,” INSS, September 12, 2021, https://www.inss.org.il/publication/guardian-of-the-walls-social-media/ 

David Pollack and Robert Satloff, “A New Start for the U.S. on Mideast Democracy and Human Rights,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 19, 2021, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/new-start-us-mideast-democracy-and-human-rights 

Adam Rasgon, “In Reversal, Israel’s New Government Engages With Palestinian Authority,” New York Times, September 25, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/world/middleeast/israel-palestinians-abbas-bennett.html?searchResultPosition=3 

Susanna Reskallah, “Food Insecurity in Palestine: A Future for Farmers,” Wilson Center, August 30, 2021, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/food-insecurity-palestine-future-farmers 

Bruce Riedel, “Playing a weak hand well,” Brookings Institute, September 27, 2021, https://www.brookings.edu/essay/playing-a-weak-hand-well-jordans-hashemite-kings-and-the-united-states/ 

Yitzhak Reiter, “Jerusalem Matters (34:) Changes In Jerusalem, Center for Israel Education, September 14, 2021

Paul Rivlin, “How the Taliban Re-took Afghanistan,” Moshe Dayan Center: Iqtisadi, September 30, 2021, https://dayan.org/content/how-taliban-re-took-afghanistan

Abdel-Moneim Said, “Reconciliations in the region,” Ahram Online, September 8, 2021, https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/4/422637/Opinion/Reconciliation-in-the-region.aspx 

Jonathan Schanzer, “What is America’s role in the World,” The Washington Examiner, September 30, 2021, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/what-is-americas-role-in-the-world

Ali Soufan, “Evolution of Jihadism 20 Years After 9/11,” Wilson Center, September 8, 2021, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/evolution-jihadism-20-years-after-911 

Khaled Abu Toameh, “Palestinians to hold municipal elections in December,” Jerusalem Post, September 16, 2021, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/palestinians-to-hold-municipal-elections-in-december-679609 

United States House of Representatives, Antony Blinken, “Afghanistan 201-2021: Evaulating the Withdrawal and U.S. Policies, – Part 1, September 13, 2021, https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ID=3F776E76-1347-4499-8B1C-A11312750362

United States Senate, Foreign Relations of the United States, “U.S. Security Assistance in the Middle East,” August 10, 2021, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/us-security-assistance-in-the-middle-east-081021

United States Senate, Foreign Relations, Antony J. Blinken, “Examining the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan,” September 14, 2021, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/examining-the-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-091421

Robert Wexler, “For Progressives, Iron Dome Isn’t the Issue. It’s Israel Itself,” New York Times, September 29, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/opinion/israel-democrats-iron-dome.html?searchResultPosition=1