Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, December 31, 2025

Yousef Algoos, “MBS in Washington: A new era of strategic tech-alliance,” Al-Arabiya, December 14, 2025. 

Thomas Albery, “A Crisis of crises: What is going on in Iran?” The Boar,  December 29, 2025.

April Longley Alley, “Yemen’s Seismic Shift Has Consequences Beyond Its Borders,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 22, 2025. 

Alan Baker, “Christian, Jewish, Other Holidays in the West Are Being Hijacked by Islamist Terror,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 24, 2025.

Avishai Ben Sasson-Gordis and Theodore Sasson, “The Battle Over Israel Within the Republican Party,” Institute for National Security Studies, December 18, 2025. 

Uri Blau, “Most Advertising Agencies Declined to Run Israeli Campaigns in Times Square,” Shomrim Center for Media and Democracy, December 14, 2025. 

Jason Campbell, “For the International Stabilization Force, key questions abound,” Middle East Institute, December 19, 2025. 

Ahmed Charai, “No Stabilization in Gaza Without Dismantling Hamas,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, December 2025. 

Center for Israel Education, “Netanyahu to Chancellor Mertz and German Chancellor Merz: Hamas and Holocause Sought Jewish Annihilation,” December 7, 2025.

Center for Israel Education, “Secretary of State Rubio Forsees Gaza-Israel Peace Efforts Lasting Beyond Trump,” December 19, 2025.

Center for Israel Education, “U.S. Defense Law Focuses on Postwar Middle East, Israel,” December 2025.

Center for Israel Education “US-Israel Meeting, December 29, 2025: Trump Netanyahu United in Threatening Hamas,” Iran, December 30, 2025.

Galit Cohen, Nurit Gal, and Gal Shani, “Securing Israel’s Electricity System: Renewable Energy, Decentralization, and Climate Security,” Institute for National Security Studies, December 28, 2025. 

Dan Diker, “Did the Iranian Regime Play a Role in Australia’s Chanukah Massacre?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 22, 2025. 

Michael Eisenberg, “Building Israel’s Trillion Dollar Economy,” Sapir Journal, November 11, 2025.

Ghassan Essam El-Din, “2025 Yearender: Egypt’s leading role in Gaza,” Al-Ahram Online, December 27, 2025. 

Idit Shafran Gittleman and Anat Shapira, “The Campaign in Lebanon in the Eyes of the Israeli Public,” Institute for National Security Studies, December 23, 2025.

Daniel Goldman, “Beyond Left and Right: Israel’s Post-7 October Political Awakening,” Fathom Journal, December 2025. 

Jonathan Halevi, “The Role of Qatar in Promoting Jihad through the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 25, 2025. 

Maurice Hirsch, “Who Are the Legitimate Palestinian Leaders?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 29, 2025. 

Jubin Katiraie, “Thirty-Eight Percent of Iran’s Oil Revenue Did Not Return to the Country frm March to November 2025”, Iran Focus, January 1, 2026.

Dalga Khatinoglu, “The Year in Review: Iran’s Deepening Economic Crisis,” Middle East Forum, December 27, 2025.

ICT Researchers, “The Sydney Attack as a Warning: Understanding the Growing Threat to Jewish Communities Worldwide,” International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, December 24, 2025. 

Israel Economic Snapshot,” Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, December 2025.

Israel Outlook Revised To Stable From Negative; ‘A/A-1’ Ratings Affirmed,” S&P Global, November 7, 2025.

Michael Jacobson and Matthew Levitt, “Cutting Off Hamas’s European Fundraising Spigot,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 14, 2025. 

Yaakov Katz, Shlomi Bereznik, and Eli Kannai, “Sharp Rise in Antisemitic Rhetoric among Leading Right-Wing Influencers in the U.S.,” Jewish People Policy Institute, December 29, 2025. 

Babak Kamiar and Una Hajdari. “Empty tables, sanctions-battered currency: Why Iran’s protests are different this time,” Euronews, December 31, 2025. 

Ely Karmon, “The Chanukah massacre of Sydney’s Jewish community,” International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, December 25, 2025. 

Kheder Khaddour and Issam Kayssi, “The United States and the Emerging Security Order in Eastern Syria,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 9, 2025. 

Shahram Kholdi, “Iran is muddling through an economic mess but its luck may run out,” Iran International, December 11, 2025. 

Raghu Kondori, “The New Radical Convergence of Leftists and Islamists,” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, December 2025. 

David Makovsky, “Israelis and Palestinians Must Confront Their Own Spoilers,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 3, 2025. 

Maiar Motamedi, As the dams feeding Tehran run dry, Iran struggles with a dire water crisis-al-Jezeera, November 12, 2025

Reza Parchizadeh, “Iran’s Axis of Resistance after the 12-day war: Adaptation, restructuring, and reconstitution,” Middle East Institute, December 19, 2025. 

Fred Pearce, “After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran is Drying Up,  Yale Environment 360, December 18, 2025.

Majid Rafizadeh, “Saudi Arabia’s rise as a global soft power leader,” Al Arabiya, December 17, 2025. 

Sai Rajabi, “Iran’s Brain Drain Crisis: How Corruption and Repression are Driving a Generation Away, Iran Focus,” June 12, 2025.

Michael Rubin, “Israel Recognizes Somaliland; Will the US Be Next?” Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, December 2025. 

Arik Rudnitzky, “An in-depth survey of the Arab community in Israel following the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, November 25, 2025. 

Haim Rivlin, “Pillaging the Five-Year Plan: Ministers Seek to Divert Funding from Arab Society to the Police and Shin Bet,” Shomrim Center for Media and Democracy, December 8, 2025. 

Gregg Roman, “The Invisible Front: Iran’s Unprecedented Espionage Offensive Agains Israel: How Tehran Weaponized Financial Desperation to Build a Network of Disposalb Spies,” Middle East Forum, December 28, 2025.

Scott N. Romaniuk et al. “Iran’s Water Crisis: A National Security Imperative,” Geopolitical Monitor, December 27, 2025.

Shuki Sadeh, “Have the Haredim Embraced Zionism? ‘They Haven’t Suddenly Become Zionists – They’re Here for the Money and the Jobs,’”Shomrim Center for Media and Democracy, December 18, 2025. 

Robert Satloff, “The Hamas-Israel War: An Early Assessment,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 23, 2025. 

Eitan Shamir, “US Involvement in Gaza Is Not a Threat – It Is a Strategic Opportunity,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, December 22, 2025. 

Eldad Shavit and Jesse Weinberg, “The Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy: Implications for Israel,” Institute for National Security Studies, December 18, 2025. 

Michael Singh, “Peace in the Middle East – A Major Challenge for the United States,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 2025. 

Lir Spiriton, “Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Street is Fuming as Leaders Stoke a Victimhood Narrative,” Shomrim Center for Media and Democracy, December 9, 2025. 

Armenak Tokmajyan, “Israel’s Ring of Buffer Zones,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 4, 2025. 

Behrouz Turani, “Khamenei faces present crises by recasting the past,” Iran International, December 18, 2025. 

George Tzogopoulos, “Israel, Greece, and Cyprus: In Search of New Synergies,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, December 29, 2025.