Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu

Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, “Why Israel Should Not Adopt Unilateral Initiatives,” BESA, June 1, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-not-adopt-unilateral-initiatives/

Geoffrey Aronson, “Israel Doubles Down on Settlement Policy,” Middle East Institute, June 21, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/israels-president-doubles-down-settlement-policy

Yuval Avivi, “Can the Chinese Save Israel’s Tourism Industry?” Al-Monitor, June 13, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/china-israel-tourism-direct-flights-visa-guides.html

Ron Ben-Yishai, “A terror attack next door to the IDF headquarters,” Y-Net News, June 9, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4814157,00.html

Ronen Bergman, and Lior Ben-Ami, “40 Years Since Operation Entebbe,” Y-Net News, (A five part series), July1, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-12984,00.html

Roee Bergman, “Israeli Economy Experiences Significant Slowdown in 2015,” Y-Net News, June 25, 2016. http://www.Ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4820141,00.html

Nicky Blackburn, “Israel Wins Top Prizes at the Asia Smartphone Apps Contest,” Israel21c, June 19, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/israel-wins-top-prizes-at-the-asia-smartphone-apps-contest/

Sever Blocker, “Is Anybody Home (an economic crisis in Israel)?,” Y-Net News, June 4, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4811684,00.html

Hannah Brown, “Israeli Movies at Jerusalem Film Festival Announced,” The Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-movies-at-Jerusalem-Film-Festival-announced-456277

Ben Caspit, “The Education of Israel’s New Defense Minister,” Al-Monitor, June 9, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/israel-attack-tel-aviv-defense-minister-liberman-first-test.html

Shlomi Eldar, “The War Over Fatah Leadership Has Begun,” Al-Monitor, June 27, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/khaled-meshaal-mohammed-dahlan-hamas-fatah-mahmoud-abbas.html

Meir Elran, Yonatan Shaham, and Alex Altshuler, “An Expanded Comprehensive Threat Scenario for the Home Front in Israel,” INSS, June 15, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11914

Camelia Entekhabifard, “Iranian funding for Hizbullah,” Al-Ahram Weekly, June 30, 2016. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16757/19/Iranian-funding-for-Hizbullah.aspx

Eran Etzion, “Netanyahu’s Risky Politics and the French Initiative,” Middle East Institute, June 6, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/netanyahu-s-risky-politics-and-french-initiative

Robert Ford, “US Diplomats are Right on Syria Obama has lost his path in Syria,” Daily Beast, June 20, 2016. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/20/u-s-diplomats-are-right-on-syria.html

Danielle Crittenden Frum, “Meet the Israeli Chefs Who Are Inventing the New Global Cuisine,” The Tower, June 30, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3584-meet-the-israeli-chefs-who-are-inventing-the-new-global-cuisine/

Peter Hadekel, “Jazz Fest: Israel’s Turbulence Breeds Creativity, Avishai Cohen says,” Montreal Gazette, June 29, 2016. http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/jazz-fest-israels-turbulence-breeds-creativity-avishai-cohen-says

Simon Henderson, “Israel’s Leviathan Gas Field: Politics and Reality,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 23, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-leviathan-gas-field-politics-and-reality

Michael Herzog, “Activism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Clouds and Wind, but No Rain?,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 21, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/activism-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-clouds-and-wind-but-no-rain

Efraim Inbar, “No One-Shot Solution to the Hamas Challenge,” BESA, June 30, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/no-one-shot-solution-hamas-challenge/

Efraim Inbar, “US Mideast Retreat a Boon to Moscow and Tehran,” The Middle East Quarterly, Volume 23 No. 3, Summer 2016. http://www.meforum.org/6042/us-mideast-retreat

Rory Jones, “Oud Is New for Israeli Musicians,” Wall Street Journal, June 8, 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/oud-is-new-for-israeli-musicians-1465403697

Michael Kaminer, “Japan’s Israeli Food Wave – And More Need-to-Know Food News,” Forward, June 8, 2016. http://forward.com/food/342064/japans-israeli-food-wave-and-more-need-to-know-food-news/

Martin Kramer, “Israel and the Post Middle East: Is the Status Quo Sustainable,” Foreign Policy, July/August 2016. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2016-06-08/israel-and-post-american-middle-east

Martin Kramer, “The Return of Bernard Lewis,” Mosaic, (with comments by Robert Irwin and Itamar Rabinovich), June 1, 2016. http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2016/06/the-return-of-bernard-lewis/

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israel’s Universities Go Global,” Israel21c, June 5, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/israels-universities-go-global/

Gallia Lindenstrauss, “Israel-Turkey Normalization: Can Relations Turn Over a New Leaf?,” INSS, June 29, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11974

Amany Maged, “The Anniversary of revolution, (Morsi tossed from office),” Al Ahram Weekly, June 30, 2016.  http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16763/17/The-anniversary-of-revolution.aspx

Brett H. McGurk, “Global Efforts to Defeat ISIS,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 28, 2016.  http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/062816_McGurk_Testimony.pdf

Clifford D. May, “Terrorism and Economic Warfare,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, June 15, 2016. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-terrorism-and-economic-warfare/

Hisham Melhem, “Syria is Obama’s Shame,” al-Arabiya, June 19, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/2016/06/19/Syria-is-Obama-s-shame-.html

Yousef Munayyer, “Saudi-Israel: Mistaken Hopes for an Alliance,” Middle East Institute, June 13, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/saudi-israel-mistaken-hopes-alliance

Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research Staff, “Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (60),” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, June 7, 2016. http://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/656

Smadar Perry, “Strangling Nasrallah,” Y-Net News, June 12, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4814752,00.html

Steven Plaut, “Israel’s Socialist Dreams vs. Capitalist Realities,” Middle East Forum, June 2016. http://www.meforum.org/6046/israel-socialist-dreams-capitalist-realities

Daniel Polisar, “Palestinian Public Opinion is Behind Tel Aviv Terror Attack,” Times of Israel, June 10, 2016. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-public-opinion-is-behind-tel-aviv-terror-attack/

Stephan Roll and Lars Brozus, “The Long Arm of the Dictator,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, June 2, 2016. http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publications/point-of-view/the-long-arm-of-the-dictator.html

Michael Z. Rosenhaft, “Remembering Elie Wiesel: Tribute From a Friend and Disciple,” Tablet, July 2, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/206702/remembering-elie-wiesel-a-tribute-from-a-friend-and-disciple

Arik Rudnitzky, ““Trust and Reform” Party: New Arab Politics in Israel?,” The Moshe Dayan Center, June 16, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/“trust-and-reform”-party-new-arab-politics-israel

Grant Rumley and Adam Rasgon, “Assessing the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Policy,” Fathom, June 28, 2016. http://fathomjournal.org/assessing-the-palestinian-authoritys-foreign-policy/

Jonathan Schanzer, “Putting Hezbollah ‘Out of Business’,” Washington Times, June 1, 2016. http://schanzer.pundicity.com/18884/putting-hezbollah-out-of-business

David Schenker, Terrorist Spillover in Jordan,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 23, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/terrorist-spillover-in-jordan

Yoram Schweitzer, “The Islamic State, Two Years On: Is it Indeed on the Verge of Collapse?” INSS, June 30, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11979

David Shamah, “Car Tech Fast Lane? Why Automobile Makers are Rushing to Israel,” ZDNet, June 6, 2016. http://www.zdnet.com/article/israel-emerging-as-a-car-tech-capital/

Alina Dain Sharon and Sean Savage, “As Turkey-Israel Deal Moves From Speculation to Reality, What Does it Mean?,” JNS.org, June 28, 2016. http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2016/6/28/as-turkey-israel-deal-moves-from-speculation-to-reality-what-does-it-mean#.V3wIw1qq78F=

Allon Sinai, “Israeli Soccer Star Eran Zahavi Completes Record Transfer to Chinese Club,” The Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sports/Israeli-soccer-star-Eran-Zahavi-completes-record-transfer-to-Chinese-club-459060

Lea Speyer, “Study: Israeli Innovation Proving to Be Major Driving Force Behind Massachusetts Economy,” The Algemeiner, June 23, 2016. http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/06/23/study-israeli-innovation-proving-to-be-major-driving-force-behind-massachusetts-economy/

Shimon Stein and Shlomo Brom, “The Meeting of the Foreign Ministers in Paris: What Next?,” INSS, June 16, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11930

TheTower.org Staff, “Israel Delivers Drip Irrigation Systems to Help Relieve Drought in Paraguay,” The Tower, June 29, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3577-israeli-delivers-drip-irrigation-systems-to-help-relieve-drought-in-paraguay/

US Department of State Staff, “Report of the Middle East Quartet,” US Department of State, July 1, 2016. http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rpt/259262.htm

Benjamin Weinthal, “Exclusive: Second Largest German Bank Shuts Anti-Israel BDS Account,” The Jerusalem Post, June 14, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Exclusive-Second-largest-German-bank-shuts-anti-Israel-BDS-account-456721

Ofir Winter, “An Egyptian Take on the ‘New Middle East,’” INSS, June 7, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11897

Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, “Turkish – Israeli Reconciliation: The End of “Precious Loneliness”?,” The Moshe Dayan Center, June 26, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/turkish-–-israeli-reconciliation-end-“precious-loneliness”

Steven Zeitchik, “In Israel a New Film Consciousness Emerges, Uneasily,” Los Angeles Times, June 10, 2016. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-israeli-cinema-20160601-snap-story.html

Husam Zomlot, “After Oslo’s failure, the two-state solution is now an international responsibility: an interview with Husam Zomlot,” Fathom, Summer 2016. http://fathomjournal.org/after-oslos-failure-the-two-state-solution-is-now-an-international-responsibility-an-interview-with-husam-zomlot/