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

Rasha Abou Jalal, “What’s behind Abbas’ recent threats to Hamas? Al-Monitor, May 15, 2017. ” www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/05/palestine-abbas-threats-hamas-gaza-trump-visit.html

Amnon Abramovich, “Almost 40 Years of Likud Rule: What else has to happen, Y-Net News,” May 15, 2017. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4962260,00.html

Inbal Ariel, “Israeli teens are in ‘the stupid age’,” Israel21c, May 15, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-teens-are-in-the-stupid-age/

Orit Arfa, “Berlin Becomes a Musical Playground for Israeli Artists,” Jerusalem Post, May 16, 2017. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Berlin-becomes-a-musical-playground-for-Israeli-artists-490938

Shlomo Brom and Udi Dekel, “The Trump Administration: Forming a Policy on Settlements,” INSS, April 20, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13296

Udi Dekel, “Hamas’s New Statement of Principles: A Political Opportunity for Israel?,” INSS, May 14, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/hamass-new-statement-principles-political-opportunity-israel/?offset=6&posts=932&type=399

Dr. Edy Cohen, “Assad’s Survival Is in Israel’s Best Interest.” BESA Center. May 25, 2017.  https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/476-Assads-Survival-Is-in-Israels-Best-Interest-Cohen-English-final.pdf

Anwar Eskt, “Trump will Find an Arab Nation Rising to Confront Iran,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 22, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/trump-will-find-an-arab-nation-rising-to-confront-iran

Dina Ezzat, “The Ultimate (Trump-Saudi)Deal,” Al-Ahram Weekly, 25-31 May 2017, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20571.aspx

Brandon Friedman, “Trump’s First 100 Days and Syria,” The Moshe Dayan Center, May 10, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/trumps-first-100-days-and-syria

Gabriel Glickman, “How Nasser’s Vendetta against American led to the Six Day War,” Fathom, Spring 2017. http://fathomjournal.org/1967-how-nassers-vendetta-against-america-led-to-the-six-day-war/

Gabriel Glickman, “This Time the Loser Writes History,” Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2017. http://www.meforum.org/meq/pdfs/6710.pdf

Globes Staff, “Smoking cost Israeli economy NIS 13b in 2016,” Globes, June 1, 2017. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-smoking-cost-israeli-economy-nis-13b-in-2016-1001190870

Liam Hoare, “1967 Nathan Alterman or Amos Oz: The Six Day war and Israeli Literature,” Fathom, Spring 2017. http://fathomjournal.org/1967-natan-alterman-or-amos-oz-the-six-day-war-and-israeli-literature/

Hussein Ibish, “Trump’s Plan for Middle East Peace Could Actually Work,” Foreign Policy, May 25, 2017.  http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/25/trumps-plan-for-middle-east-peace-could-actually-work/

Hussein Ibish, “We Can’t Predict whether Trump Will Succeed in the Middle East,” The Atlantic, May 25, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/trump-israeli-palestinian-peace/528030/

Martin Indyk, Ken Stein, and Shibli Telhami, “US Policy in the Middle East: Fifty Years after the Six Day War, May 30, 2017.  https://www.cfr.org/event/us-policy-middle-east-fifty-years-after-six-day-war

Efraim Inbar, “Israel is Still at War,” BESA Center, May 4, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-still-war

Ofek Ish Maas, Carmit Valensi, “The Agreement on De-escalation Zones in Syria: Risks to Israel, with Opportunities for Influence,” INSS, May 15, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/agreement-de-escalation-zones-syria-risks-israel-opportunities-influence/?offset=5&posts=932&type=399

Ron Kampeas, “The Death of The TV Channel That Once Unified,” Forward, May 11, 2017. http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/371680/death-of-channel-1-closed-tv-network-that-once-unified-israel/

Efraim Karsh, “The Six Day War: An Inevitable Conflict,” BESA Center, May 19, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/six-day-war-inevitable-conflict/

Emily Landau, “Obama’s Legacy, a Nuclear Iran,” Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2017, http://www.meforum.org/6561/obama-legacy-a-nuclear-iran

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Michael Solomonov wins James Beard Outstanding Chef award,” Israel21c, May 4, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/michael-solomonov-wins-james-beard-outstanding-chef-award/

Yaacov Lozowich, “Breaking News: The Secret Transcripts of the Six-Day War, Part I,” Tablet, May 17, 2017. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/234352/secret-transcripts-six-day-war-1

David Makovsky, “When International Guarantees Utterly Failed,” Jerusalem Post, May 4, 2017.

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/when-international-guarantees-utterly-failed

Dimitar Mihaylov, “Why the Arab Spring Turned into Arab Winter: Understanding the Middle East Crisis through Culture, Religion, and Literature,” Israeli Journal of Foreign Affairs, April 2017. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23739770.2017.1313544

Hassan Mniemneh, “Can Diversity in the Middle East Be Rescued” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 5, 2017.

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/can-diversity-in-the-middle-east-be-rescued

Ghaith al-Omari, “The Abbas-Trump Agenda: Urging Modest Steps Toward Peace,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 26, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-abbas-trump-agenda-urging-modest-steps-toward-peace

Viva Sarah Press, “Western Galilee is one giant festival in the month of May,” Israel21c, May11, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/western-galilee-is-one-giant-festival-in-the-month-of-may/

Paul Rivlin, “The Crisis in Gaza,” The Moshe Dayan Center, May 28, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/crisis-gaza

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff, “Chinese investment in Israeli tech hits record $16.5 billion in 2016,” Israel Hayom, May 11, 2017. www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=42333

Asaf Romirovsky, “Nakba: The Source of Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Middle East Forum, Y-Net News, Spring 2017, http://www.meforum.org/6737/nakba-the-source-of-arab-israeli-conflict

Natan Sachs, “50 years: Legacies of the 1967 War,” Brookings Institute, May 31, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/05/31/50-years-legacies-of-the-1967-war/

Shoshanna Solomon, “Intel to pay taxes from Mobileye deal in US dollars: move is to prevent ‘over-appreciation’ of the shekel, Bank of Israel says,” Times of Israel, May 16, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/intel-to-pay-taxes-from-mobileye-deal-in-us-dollars/

Daniel Shapiro and Rotem Oreg, “Trump’s “Square One” on the Twisted Road to an Israeli-Palestinian Solution,” INSS, May 21, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/trumps-square-one-twisted-road-israeli-palestinian-solution/

Micahael Sharnoff,” Nasser’s Legacy on the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War,” BESA Center. May 21, 2017. https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/472-Nassers-Legacy-50-Years-After-1967-War-Sharnoff-final.pdf

Eyal Sher, “Israel Festival Brings People Together, Creatively,” The New York Jewish Week, May 25, 2017. http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/israel-festival-brings-people-together-creatively/

Sima Shine, Raz Zimmt and Anna Catran, “The Election of Rouhani as President: A Message to the Supreme Leader,” INSS, May 29, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/election-rouhani-president-message-supreme-leader/?offset=1&posts=932&type=399   

Amy Spiro, “Musical Adapted from Israeli Film to Hit Broadway,” Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2017. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Musical-adapted-from-Israeli-film-to-hit-Broadway-493938

Kirk Silsbee, “Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen brings Jewish style to Brazilian music” Jewish Journal, May 3, 2017. http://jewishjournal.com/culture/218589/israeli-clarinetist-brings-jewish-style-brazilian-music/

Michael Singh, “Syria After the Missile Strikes: Policy Options,” Testimony submitted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, April 27, 2017. https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/hearing-syria-missile-strikes-policy-options/

Jonathan Spyer, “Assad’s Hollow Crown,” MERIA Journal, Winter 2016.

http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/05/assads-hollow-crown/

Jessica Steinberg, “Israel’s filmmakers are country’s ambassadors, says film school pioneer,” Times of Israel, May 8, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/israels-filmmakers-are-countrys-ambassadors/

Sharon Udasin, “Israel, Japan Sign Economic Cyber Cooperation Agreement,” Jerusalem Post, May 3, 2017. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-Japan-sign-economic-cyber-cooperation-agreements-489647

Sharon Usadin, “Israeli tech company behind Iron Dome system to help sync New Zealand electricity grid,” Times of Israel, May 7, 2017. www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Tech/Israeli-start-up-behind-Iron-Dome-system-to-help-sync-New-Zealand-electricity-grid-489985

Isabelle Werenfels and Ilya Saliba, “No Rivals to the King-The Limits to Political Reform in Morocco’s “Enlightened Authoritarianism, May 17, 2017.  https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/morocco-no-rivals-to-the-king/

Amos Yadlin and Eldad Shavit, “President Trump’s Visit to the Middle East,” INSS, May 22, 2017.  http://www.inss.org.il/publication/president-trumps-visit-middle-east/?offset=0&posts=930&type=399

Issac Zabloki, “It’s Not All Politics In Israeli Films,” Forward, May 8, 2017. http://forward.com/scribe/371313/its-not-all-politics-in-israeli-films/