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

Rania Said Abdalla, “Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution: The Fight for Sexual Equality,” Washington Institute for Near East Studies, December 15, 2017. www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/egypts-unfinished-revolution-the-fight-for-sexual-equality

Al-Ahram Weekly Staff, “Cairo called to intervene: (editorial) Palestinian conciliation is teetering, with little progress made on lauded agreements,” Al-Ahram Weekly, November 30 – 6 December, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/23122.aspx

Abdulrahman al-Rashid, “Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and Iranian Complicity,” Al-‘Arabiya, December 9, 2017, https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2017/12/09/The-Palestinian-Israeli-conflict-.html

Noa Amouyal, “Israel’s Groundbreaking Water Technology Exported Worldwide,” Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-groundbreaking-water-technology-exported-worldwide-517848

Nastassia Arendse, “Israeli entrepreneurship, innovation and green technology (Israel and South Africa),” Moneyweb South Africa, December 6, 2017. https://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-radio/israeli-entrepreneurship-innovation-and-green-technology/

Raphael Arens, “UN defies Trump, rejects US recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital by 128-9,” Times of Israel, December 21, 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-nations-defy-trump-and-pass-jerusalem-resolution-with-large-majority/

Muriel Assenberg, “Syria’s Reconstruction Scramble: In a Game Fraught with Political Risk, Europe Should Aim for Long-term Stabilization,” SWP Berlin, December 2017. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/syrias-reconstruction-scramble/

Emil Avdliani, “Iran and the New Land Corridor,” BESA Center, December 19, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-land-corridor/

Rami Aziz, “Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel…Why Wonder?” Washington Institute for Near East Studies, December 21, 2017. www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/jerusalem-as-the-capital-of-israelwhy-wonder

Rauf Baker, “Syria’s Sunni Arabs and Israel: The War’s Silver Lining?” BESA Center, December 13, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/sunni-syria-israel/

Avinoam Bar-Yosef, “Jerusalem and the Jewish People: Unity and Division,” The Jewish People Policy Institute, Jerusalem 2017. http://jppi.org.il/new/en/article/jerusalem/toc/english-foreword/#.WkdlAd-nGUk

Nathalie Boehler, “A walk through south Tel Aviv to discover the Afro-Israeli rhythm,” i24News, December 17, 2017. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/162898-171217-the-afro-israeli-rhythm-of-south-tel-aviv

Harel Chorev-Halewa, “The Wave of Lone Wolf Attacks in Israel (Oct. 2015 – Sep. 2016) and Palestinian Social Media,” Moshe Dayan Center, December 31, 2017. https://dayan.org/content/wave-lone-wolf-attacks-israel-oct-2015-–-sep-2016-and-palestinian-social-media-0

Haisam Hassanein, “Arabs Must Accept Jerusalem’s Status,” New York Daily News, December 10, 2017. Republished at http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/arabs-must-accept-jerusalems-status

James M. Dorsey, “Transition in the Middle East: Transition to What?” BESA Center, December 13, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/transition-middle-east/

Itamar Eichner, “Despite PM’s foreign trips, Israel remains nearly isolated in UN,” Ynet News, December 27, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5062106,00.html

Daniel K. Eisenbud, “Archeology in Israel as a Political Weapon,” Jerusalem Post, December 4, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archeology-in-Israel-as-a-political-weapon-515922

Oded Eran, “The Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel,” INSS, December 13, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/recognition-jerusalem-capital-israel/?offset=6&posts=1004&type=399

Seth J. Frantzman, “Twitter War Over Israel’s Hummus ‘Cultural Genocide,’” Jerusalem Post, December 27, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Twitter-war-over-Israels-cultural-genocide-of-hummus-520162

Brandon Friedman, “Victory in Iraq and Syria?” Moshe Dayan Center, December 13, 2017.   https://dayan.org/content/victory-iraq-and-syria

Hillel Frisch, “Assessing the Islamic World’s Ho-Hum Response to Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration,” BESA Center, December 28, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/assessing-islamic-worlds-ho-hum-response-trumps-jerusalem-declaration/

Jennifer Greenburg, “Ethiopian-Israeli Singer Tells His Personal Story and that of a Culture,” Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Ethiopian-Israeli-singer-tells-his-personal-story-and-that-of-a-culture-518220

Caroline Glick, “Trump’s great gifts to Israel and America,” Jerusalem Post, December 8, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-World-Trumps-great-and-ingenious-gifts-517417

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, “Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: Resistance as an Expression of Faith,” BESA Center, December 5, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/fatah-hamas-reconciliation/

Azeem Ibrahim, “How Obama’s Iran policy strengthened Hezbollah,” Al-Arabiya, December 29, 2017. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/2017/12/29/How-Obama-s-Iran-policy-strengthened-Hezbollah.html

Jerusalem Post Staff, “Economic Allies: The US and Israel’s Top Partnerships,” Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Jpost-Tech/Economic-allies-The-US-and-Israels-top-partnerships-517145

Debra Kamin, “Israel Government Steers Drive to Bring in Bollywood Shoots,” Variety, December 8, 2017. http://variety.com/2017/film/features/israel-india-filming-location-bollywood-west-1202633933/

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Light and water flow to rural Africa due to Israeli tech,” Israel21c, December 17, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/light-and-water-flow-to-rural-africa-due-to-israeli-tech/

Martin Kramer, “The Fantasy of an International Jerusalem [look back 100 years ago],” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 28, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-fantasy-of-an-international-jerusalem

Yaakov Lappin, “Iron Dome Goes Naval to Defend Gas Rigs,” BESA Center, December 20, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/naval-iron-dome/

Yaakov Lappin, “War Prevention: A Top IDF Goal,” BESA Center, December 18, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/war-prevention-top-idf-goal/

Walter Laqueur, “The Many Lives of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Mosaic, December 2017. https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2017/12/the-many-lives-of-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion/

Shalom Lipner, “5 reasons the Palestinian reaction to Trump’s Jerusalem announcement has been relatively quiet,” Brookings Institute, December 22, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/12/22/5-reasons-the-palestinian-reaction-to-trumps-jerusalem-announcement-has-been-relatively-quiet/

Michal Navoth, “Status of Jerusalem in America’s Foreign Policy,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, October 28, 2015. http://jcpa.org/article/the-status-of-jerusalem-in-americas-foreign-policy-legislation-and-jurisprudence/

Michal Raz-Chaimovich, “Record 3.6m tourists visit Israel in 2017,” Globes, December 27, 2017. www.globes.co.il/en/article-record-36m-tourists-visit-israel-in-2017-1001217309

Paul Rivlin, “What’s happening in the Oil Markets?” Moshe Dayan Center, December 25, 2017. https://dayan.org/content/whats-happening-oil-markets

Arik Rudnitsky and Itamar Radai, “Citizenship, Identity and Political Participation: Measuring the Attitudes of the Arab Citizens in Israel,” Moshe Dayan Center, December 27, 2017.  https://dayan.org/content/citizenship-identity-and-political-participation-measuring-attitudes-arab-citizens-israel

Gabi Sabon and Gal Perl Finkel, “Combat Military Service: The Crisis in Motivation,” INSS, December 12, 2017.  www.inss.org.il/publication/combat-military-service-crisis-motivation/?offset=7&posts=1004&type=399

Abdel-Moneim Said, “Arab Soft Power [reform in Arab world needed], Al-Ahram Weekly, November 30 – 6 December, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/23177.aspx

Shalom Salomon Wald, “India’s Israel Relations, the Middle East and China,” Sino-Israel Global Network and Academic Leadership, 2017.

http://jppi.org.il/new/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Indias-Israel-relations-the-Middle-East-and-China-1.pdf

Robert Satloff, “Mohammed bin Salman Doesn’t Want to Talk About Jerusalem, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 14, 2017,  http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/mohammad-bin-salman-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-jerusalem

Pnina Shavit Baruch and Lior Zur, “The ICC: The Flotilla Case is Closed, Settlements and Operation Protective Edge Remain under Examination,” INSS, December 17, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/icc-flotilla-case-closed-settlements-operation-protective-edge-remain-examination/?offset=4&posts=1004&type=399

Shoshanna Solomon, “To stay credible as free economy, Israel must swallow Teva’s bitter pill,” Times of Israel, December 18, 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/to-stay-credible-as-free-economy-israel-must-swallow-tevas-bitter-pill/

Amy Spiro, “A dramatic, action packed 2018: Hollywood will be taking on at least four thrilling Mossad operations in films slated for next year,” Jerusalem Post, December 26, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/A-dramatic-action-packed-2018-520083

Kenneth W. Stein, “Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has merit,” Center for Israel Education, December 13, 2017, https://israeled.org/trump-recognition-jerusalem-israels-capital/

Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov, “The Need for an Israeli-American Dialogue in Light of the “America First” Strategy,” INSS, December 22, 2017.  www.inss.org.il/publication/need-israeli-american-dialogue-light-america-first-strategy/?offset=3&posts=1004&type=399

Roie Yellnik, “Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem: The View from Beijing,” BESA Center, December 27, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/trumps-recognition-jerusalem-view-from-beijing/

Tamara Zieve, “Veganism set to Top Culinary Trends of 2018, with Israel at the Helm,” Jerusalem Post, December 26, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Veganism-set-to-top-culinary-trends-of-2018-with-Israel-at-the-helm-520093

Raz Zimmt, “Shifting to the Right? President Rouhani Distances Himself from his Reformist Supporters,” INSS, December 26, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/shifting-right-president-rouhani-distances-reformist-supporters/?offset=2&posts=1004&type=399