Contemporary Readings

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

Algemeiner Staff, “Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Releases Virtual Passover Music Medley,” Algemeiner, April 08, 2020. https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/04/08/israel-philharmonic-orchestra-releases-virtual-passover-music-medley/

Moran Azulay, “Netanyahu and Gantz sign deal for unity government,” Ynet News, April 20, 2020. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/Hk2C2rsOL

Joy Bernard, “Locked down? Open up to… rising Israeli musician Oren Lavie,” Times of Israel, April 24, 2020. https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-down-open-up-to-rising-israeli-musician-oren-lavie/

Itai Brun, Yoel Guzansky, Daniel Rakov, Sarah J. Feuer, “Food for Thought during the Corona Crisis: Ten Potential Negative Scenarios in Israel’s Strategic Environment,” INSS, April 1, 2020. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/ten-negative-scenarios/ 

CIE Staff, “A Guide for Streaming Israeli Content,” Center for Israel Education, April 2020. https://israeled.org/a-guide-for-streaming-israeli-content/

Edy Cohen, “Coronavirus and the Arab Culture of Secrecy,” BESA Center, May 1, 2020. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/coronavirus-arab-culture-secrecy/

Mohammed S. Dajani, “Forging a Path to Peace in The Time of Coronavirus,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 1, 2020. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/Peace-Coronavirus-Israel-Palestinians-COVID-19

Sophia Deboick, “Music and hedonism in Tel Aviv,” The New European, April 20, 2020. https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/sophia-deboick-on-music-and-hedonism-in-tel-aviv-1-6610519

Zvi Eckstein, Avihai Lifschitz, and Sarit Menahem-carm, “a Growth Strategy for the Israeli Economy,” Brookings Institute, April 2020. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/FP_20200407_israel_economy.pdf

Oded Eran, “A Gloomy Forecast for the Middle East following the Coronavirus Crisis,” INSS, April 22, 2020. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-coronavirus-crisis-in-the-middle-east/

Benjamin Ferrer, “Next-generation chickpea protein: Israeli start-up InnovoPro nets US$15m funding,” Food Ingredients First, April 24, 2020.  https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/next-generation-chickpea-protein-israeli-start-up-innovopro-nets-us15m-funding.html 

Matti Friedman, “The Last Remnants of the Israeli Left,” New York Times, April 27, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/opinion/labor-likud-knesset-israel.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR0ChkM2x2Z0W-yCLxITDxUHc7Wpf8VbkizXu7ObYB3RtMM3GH2xZXWAOpc

Gershon Hacohen, “A Tale of Two Leaders: Netanyahu During the Coronavirus Crisis and Ben-Gurion During the War of Independence,” BESA Center, April 28, 2020. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/coronavirus-netanyahu-ben-gurion/

Tal Grinfas-David  “Zionism in Israeli Music – Activities, Ideas and Links to Resources,” Center for Israel Education, April 25, 2020. https://israeled.org/zionism-in-israeli-music-activities-ideas-and-links-to-resources/ 

Fleur Hassan Nahoum, “World powers turn to Israel for coronavirus pandemic leadership example,” Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2020. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/world-powers-turn-to-israel-for-coronavirus-pandemic-leadership-example-623399

Anne Herzberg, “UN Treaty Body Promotes BDS at Urging of Norwegian NGO,” BESA Center, April 15, 2020. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/un-treaty-body-promotes-bds-at-urging-of-norwegian-ngo/

Michael Herzog, Ghaith al-Omari, “Coronavirus on the Israeli-Palestinian Scene (Part 2): The Gaza Strip,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 1, 2020.  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/coronavirus-on-the-israeli-palestinian-scene-part-2-the-gaza-strip

Tammy Hoffman, “A Moment of Reckoning for the [Israeli] Education System,” Israel democracy Institute, April 6, 2020. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/31252 

Hussein Ibish, “What Arab TV Says About Evolving Attitudes Toward Israel,” Bloomberg, May 5, 2020. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-05/what-arab-tv-says-about-evolving-attitudes-toward-jews-and-israel

IPC Team, “Is Israel Prepared to Emerge from the Coronavirus Crisis?” IDC Herziliya, April 17, 2020. https://www.idc.ac.il/en/research/ips/pages/insights/insights-17-4-20-ips.aspx 

Israel21c Staff, “Join us on an intimate journey through seven decades of Israel’s history,” Israel21c, April 20, 2020. https://www.israel21c.org/join-us-on-an-intimate-journey-through-seven-decades-of-israels-history/

Israel21c Staff, “Make your own homemade hummus and pita this Independence Day,” Israel21c, April 23, 2020. https://www.israel21c.org/make-your-own-homemade-hummus-and-pita-this-independence-day/

Israel Kasnett, “Israel sells record $25 billion in bonds as investors show confidence in economy,” Jewish News Syndicate, April 30, 2020. https://www.jns.org/israel-sells-record-25-billion-in-bonds-as-investors-show-confidence-in-economy/

Isabel Kershner, “Passover Under Lockdown: Israeli Jews Revise the Rituals,” New York Times, April 7, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/middleeast/coronavirus-passover-israel.html

Anthony Kim, “Israel moving toward greater economic freedom – opinion,” Jerusalem Post, April 13, 2020. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/israel-moving-toward-greater-economic-freedom-opinion-624571

Daniel Kurtzer and Maira Seeley, “The Middle East’s Evolving Security Landscape: Prospects for Regional Cooperation and US Engagement,” Istituto Affari Internazionali, May 2020. https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/middle-easts-evolving-security-landscape-prospects-regional-cooperation-and-us

Yossi Klein Halevi, “How Hebrew music made me an Israeli: 12 seminal songs for Independence Day,” Times of Israel, April 28, 2020. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-hebrew-music-made-me-an-israeli/

Yossi Klein Halevi, “Israel’s Arab Moment,” The Atlantic, April 20, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/israels-arab-moment/610918/

David M. Halbfinger and Isabel Kershner, “Netanyahu’s Power Is Extended as Rival Accepts Israel Unity Government,” New York Times, April 22, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/world/middleeast/netanyahu-israel-government-gantz.html

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israel launches ingenious zero-exposure Covid-19 test kiosks,” Israel21c, April 27, 2020. https://www.israel21c.org/israel-launches-ingenious-zero-exposure-covid-19-test-kiosks/

Ephraim Lavie (et.al), “On the Eve of Ramadan: Arab Society in Israel and the Coronavirus,” INSS, April 23, 2020. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/ramadan-in-times-of-corona/

Kevin Lim, “With COVID-19, Iran’s Dependence on China Grows,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 27, 2020. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/with-covid-19-irans-dependence-on-china-grows

Ronny Linder, “Inside the ultra-Orthodox Hospital at the Center of Israel’s Coronavirus Pandemic,” Haaretz, April 20, 2020. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-inside-the-ultra-orthodox-hospital-at-the-center-of-israel-s-coronavirus-pandemic-1.8781069 

Michael Milshtein, “Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the Face of the Coronavirus Crisis,” IDC Herziliya, April 17, 2020. https://www.idc.ac.il/en/research/ips/pages/insights/michael-milshtein-17-4-20.aspx

Meron Rappaport, “What happened to Israel’s Labor party?” Middle East Eye, April 30, 2020. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-politics-labor-party-what-happened

Asaf Romirovsky, “The Fauda Effect: Israeli Active Defense on the Screen,” BESA Center, April 19, 2020. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/fauda-effect/

Allon Sinai, ” Insights by the Israeli Tech Sector’s Eyes and Ears in the U.S.,” Calcalist, April 24, 2020. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3810570,00.html  

Wendy Singer, “As Countries Mull Exit Strategies, COVID-19 Could Still Undermine Global Food Security: Here’s How Israel’s AgriFood-Tech Can Mitigate Future Shortages,” Forbes, April 22, 2020. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startupnationcentral/2020/04/26/covid19-coronavirus-agritech-food-shortage/#62d9cccf6b78

Shoshanna Solomon, “How Israeli exit strategy aims to save economy while keeping virus under control,” Times of Israel, April 13, 2020. https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-israeli-exit-strategy-aims-to-save-economy-while-keeping-virus-under-control/

Eli Sperling, “Israeli/Hebrew Music Collections—Easily Accessible,” Center for Israel Education, April 2020. https://israeled.org/israeli-hebrew-music-collections-easily-accessible/

Ken Stein, “Dayenu – From Exodus to Contemporary Israel,” Center for Israel Education,   April 2020. https://israeled.org/dayenu-from-exodus-to-contemporary-israel/ 

Ken Stein, “Is Passover a Legacy Moment in Jewish History?” Center for Israel Education, April 12, 2020. https://israeled.org/is-passover-a-legacy-moment-in-jewish-history/   

Yedidia Stern, “Two Hedgehogs and a Hydra,” Israel democracy Institute, April 24, 2020. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/31385 

Eyal Tsir, “Israel’s changing regional landscape in light of COVID-19,” Brookings Institute, April 17, 2020. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/04/17/israels-changing-regional-landscape-in-light-of-covid-19/

Irenen Tsukerman, “Turkey Is Building a Geopolitical Alliance Between Sunni and Shiite Islamists,” BESA Center, April 14, 2020. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkey-is-building-a-geopolitical-alliance-between-sunni-and-shiite-islamists/

Ofir Winter and Tzvi Lev, “Challenges to Egypt from the Coronavirus Pandemic,” INSS, April 22, 2020. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypt-coronavirus-test/

Aaron Y. Zelin and Oula A. Alrifai, “Syria’s Three Governments Confront the Coronavirus,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 1, 2020. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/syrias-three-governments-confront-the-coronavirus 

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

Or Anabi and Prof. Tamar Hermann, “76% of Israelis are Afraid of Getting Coronavirus,” The Israel Democracy Institute, March 31, 2020. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/31155

Tony Badran, “Crisis of the Iranian Order,” Hoover Institution: The Caravan Issue, March 10, 2020. https://www.hoover.org/research/crisis-iranian-order

Benny Begin, “Why Abbas Rejects Trump’s Deal (And Any Other Deal with Israel),” Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd., March 6, 2020. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-why-abbas-rejects-trump-s-deal-and-any-other-deal-with-israel-1.8633745

Laura Brehaut, “In Sababa, Adeena Sussman Showcases the Dazzling Warmth of Israeli Food,” Windsor Star, April 2, 2020. https://windsorstar.com/life/food/in-sababa-adeena-sussman-showcases-the-dazzling-warmth-of-israeli-food/wcm/87075a43-344d-4d6d-8c16-528e6bcbd166/ 

Hannah Brown, “Amid Coronavirus Cancellations, Local Shows Will Go on- Online,” The Jerusalem Post, March 15, 2020. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/amid-coronavirus-cancellations-local-shows-will-go-on-online-621056

Itai Brun and Sarah J. Feuer, “The Calm before the Storm? Coping with Corona in the Middle East,” INSS, March 26, 2020. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/coronavirus-in-the-middle-east/

Itai Brun, Yoel Guzansky, Daniel Rakov and Sarah J. Feuer, “Food for Thought during the Corona Virus: Ten Potential Negative Scenarios in Israel’s Strategic Environment,” INSS, April 1, 2020. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/ten-negative-scenarios/

Brian Clark, “Perpetual Chaos: Why the Middle East Has Been Marred by America’s Presence,” The National Interest, March 4, 2020. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/perpetual-chaos-why-middle-east-has-been-marred-america’s-presence-129602

Anthony H. Cordesman, “Iran and the Changing Military Balance in the Gulf- Net Assessment Indicators,” Center for Strategic & International Studies, March 26, 2020. https://www.csis.org/analysis/iran-and-changing-military-balance-gulf-net-assessment-indicators

Nabil Fahmy, “The Most Severe Threat (Not Enough Water) Facing MENA,” The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Winter 2020. https://www.thecairoreview.com/midan/the-most-severe-threat-facing-mena/

Leehe Friedman and Dr. Gilad Malach, “Curbing the Coronavirus among the Ultra-Orthodox: Explainer,” The Israel Democracy Institute, April 2, 2020. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/31199

Galia Golan, “The History of the Two-State Solution,” Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture Vol. 24 No. 1, 2019. https://pij.org/articles/1946/the-history-of-the-twostate-solution

Jessica Halfin, “Sip the Wines of the Fabulous Judean Hills Terroir,” Israel21C, March 18, 2020.  https://www.israel21c.org/sip-the-wines-of-the-fabulous-judean-hills-terroir/

Sven Herpig, Robert Morgus and Amit Sheniak, “Active Cyber Defense – A comparative study on US, Israeli and German approaches,” Adenauer Foundation (English and German), March 10, 2020. https://www.kas.de/en/analyse/-/content/active-cyber-defense-a-comparative-study-on-us-israeli-and-german-approaches-2

Tsilla Hershco, “Contradictions in France’s Fight Against Antisemitic Violence,” BESA Center, March 16, 2020. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/france-antisemitism-violence/

Tammy Hoffman, “A Moment of Reckoning for the Education System,” The Israel Democracy Institute, April 6, 2020. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/31252

House Foreign Affairs Committee, “The Middle East Peace Process: An Analysis from Former U.S. Negotiators,” YouTube—2 hours, February 12, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzkJ0Tu40m8

Israel21C Staff, “In Q1/2020, Israeli High-Tech Firms Raise a Record $2.74b,” Israel21c, April 6, 2020. https://www.israel21c.org/in-q1-2020-israeli-high-tech-firms-raise-a-record-2-74b/

Dina Kraft, “Lemony, Savory Fusion: Israel’s Brash Food Revolution,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 20, 2020. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2020/0320/Lemony-savory-fusion-Israel-s-brash-food-revolution 

Yossi Kupferwasser, “Zionist Responses to the Trump Peace Plan (1): The Failure of the Old Paradigm,” Fathom Journal, February 11, 2020. https://fathomjournal.org/zionist-responses-to-the-trump-peace-plan-1-the-failure-of-the-old-paradigm/

Sarah Ladislaw, “The End of OPEC or a New Beginning?” Center for Strategic & International Studies, March 30, 2020. https://www.csis.org/analysis/end-opec-or-new-beginning 

Abigail Klein Leichman, “The Strange Story of the Rare Piano That Was Lost and Found,” Israel21C, March 22, 2020. https://www.israel21c.org/the-strange-story-of-the-rare-piano-that-was-lost-and-found/

David Makovsky and Dennis Ross, “Benny Gantz Did the Right Thing by Putting His Country First,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 7, 2020. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/benny-gantz-did-the-right-thing-by-putting-his-country-first

Nate Mason and Jason Pack, “Could Coronavirus Lead to an Arab Spring 2.0?” Middle East Institute, March 25, 2020. https://www.mei.edu/publications/could-coronavirus-lead-arab-spring-20

Aaron David Miller, “Gulliver’s Troubles: America in a Violent and Dysfunctional Middle East,” March 9, 2020, Audio, https://israeled.org/gullivers-troubles-america-in-a-violent-and-dysfunctional-middle-east/

Aaron David Miller, “Strike Three: How a Ruling Coalition Still Eludes Israel’s Netanyahu,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 5, 2020. https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/03/05/strike-three-how-ruling-coalition-still-eludes-israel-s-netanyahu-pub-81220

Talya Minsberg, “An Israeli Mom Ranted about Online Learning, and the Internet Replied: ‘Same,’” The New York Times, March 26, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/parenting/israeli-mom-coronavirus-remote-learning.html

Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud and Tamara Cofman Wittes, “Is Israel in Democratic Decline?” Brookings, March 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/research/is-israel-in-democratic-decline/

Sari Nusseibeh, “The One-State Reality,” Tablet, March 8, 2020. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/299871/the-one-state-reality

Meir Orbach, “Tourism Crash Threatens Survival of Israeli Travel Tech Companies,” Calcalist, April 2, 2020. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3805596,00.html

Marcy Oster, “BDS Founder: An Israel-Invented Coronavirus Vaccine Would Be Ok for Boycotters to Use,” The Forward, April 6, 2020. https://forward.com/fast-forward/443374/bds-founder-an-israel-invented-coronavirus-vaccine-would-be-ok-for/

Ali al-Shihabi, “Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Aramco: The end of OPEC+,” Al Arabiya English, March 15, 2020. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2020/03/15/The-end-of-OPEC-

Michael Singh, “U.S. Policy in the Middle East Amid Great Power Competition,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 2020. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/u.s.-policy-in-the-middle-east-amid-great-power-competition

Kenneth Stein, “Using Transcripts, Interviews and Conference Proceedings to Write History,” Compilations of recollections by diplomats and politicians who worked the Arab-Israeli issue in the 1970s and 1980s, March 18, 2020, https://israeled.org/23610-2/  and https://israeled.org/16-july-1992-ken-stein-interview-with-ambassador-roy-atherton-washington-dc/

Kenneth Stein, “Zionist Land Acquisition: A Core Element in Establishing Israel,” in Michael J Cohen, The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920-1948, Routledge, 2020, pp. 189-204. http://ismi.emory.edu/home/documents/Zionist%20Land%20Aquisition.pdf

Kristen Tauer, “Israeli Actress Shira Haas Streams into the U.S. with ‘Unorthodox,’” WWD, March 19, 2020. https://wwd.com/eye/people/shira-haas-actress-unorthodox-netlix-show-1203532073/

Tobias Von Lossow, Luca Miehe, Stephan Roll, “Nile Conflict: Compensation Rather Than Mediation, How Europeans Can Lead an Alternative Way Forward,” SWP Berlin, March 2020.  https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/nile-conflict-compensation-rather-than-mediation/

Luke Tress, “Bank of Israel to Buy NIS 50 Billion in Bonds to Steady Sinking Economy,” The Times of Israel, March 23, 2020. https://www.timesofisrael.com/bank-of-israel-to-buy-nis-50-billion-in-bonds-to-steady-sinking-economy/

Shalom Salomon Wald, “China’s Rise, US Opposition, and the Implications for Israel,” The Jewish People Policy Institute Ltd., February 2020. http://jppi.org.il/new/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/China_2020E.pdf

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

Mohamed Abdelaziz, “Arab Reactions to the Trump Peace Plan: An Analysis and Recommendation,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 31, 2020. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/arab-reactions-to-trumps-peace-plan-an-analysis-and-recommendation

AFP, “Israel Awaits ‘Pragmatic’ Abbas Heir, But May Be Disappointed,” Ynet, February 13, 2020.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/HJAGIPG78

Sarah Amandolare, “In the Heart of Israel’s ‘Start-Up Nation,’ an Exclusive Scene Opens Up,” The New York Times, February 15, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/travel/14TelAviv-israel-technology.html

Naama Barak, “Sunny Eilat and Nice Join Forces to Become Smart Cities,” Israel21C, February 25, 2020.
https://www.israel21c.org/sunny-eilat-and-nice-join-forces-to-become-smart-cities/

Adrian Bridgwater, “How Israel Became A Technology Startup Nation,” Forbes, February 21, 2020.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2020/02/21/how-israel-became-a-technology-startup-nation/#3de3cae9780e

Udi Dekel, Anat Kurz and Noa Shusterman, “The Deal of the Century: Where Does it Lead?” INSS, February 24, 2020.
https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/special-publication-24022020.pdf

Dan Diker (editor), “Israelophobia and the West: The Hijacking of Civil Discourse on Israel and How to Rescue It,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2020.
https://jcpa.org/israelophobia-and-the-west/

Dan Diker, “The U.S. Peace Plan: A Return to the Rabin Doctrine of Defensible Borders,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Vol. 20, No.2, February 4, 2020.
https://jcpa.org/article/the-u-s-peace-plan-a-return-to-the-rabin-doctrine-of-defensible-border/

Shmuel Even, “Military Intelligence Directorate Recommends Stepping Up Attacks on the Iranians in Syria- A Different View,” INSS Insight No. 1259, February 13, 2020.
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-israeli-intelligence-recommendation/

David Friedman, “[You Tube] The Trump Plan: A Changing Diplomatic Paradigm for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” February 9, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emop2XzFOvE and transcript, https://jcpa.org/video/the-trump-plan-the-new-american-approach/

Matti Friedman, “Israel’s Rihanna is Arab and Jewish,” The New York Times, February 26, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opinion/sunday/israel-nasrin-kadry-mizrahi-pop-music.html

Dr. Amir Fuchs, “Prime Minister on Trial- Explainer,” The Israel Democracy Institute, March 4, 2020.
https://en.idi.org.il/articles/30924

Galia Golan, “The History of the Two-State Solution,” Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture Vol. 24 No.1, 2019.
https://www.pij.org/articles/1946/the-history-of-the-twostate-solution

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, “The 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Tel Hai…and the Election Results,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, March 5, 2020.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/tel-hai-battle-anniversary/

Sasson Hadad, “Israel Needs to Urgently Execute Advanced Contracts in the Framework of American Aid as a Security Solution for Israel’s Critical Needs,” INSS Insight No. 1260, February 16, 2020.
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/us-foreign-aid-to-israel/

Eytan Halon, “Israel Counts the Climbing Cost of Coronavirus,” The Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2020.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-counts-the-climbing-cost-of-coronavirus-619136

Eytan Halon, “Israel’s Economic Growth Has Left Most People Behind- Study,” The Jerusalem Post, February 20, 2020.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-economic-growth-has-left-most-people-behind-618152

Dr. Eran Lerman, “Breaking the ‘Everybody Knows Paradigm,’” Israel Hayom, January 30, 2020.
https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/breaking-the-everybody-knows-paradigm/

David Makovsky, “Israel’s Electoral Marathon: Coalition Scenarios and Policy Implications,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 28, 2020.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-electoral-marathon-coalition-scenarios-and-policy-implications

Jonah Mandel, “Ancient Jewish Dish of Cholent is Now a Melting Pot of Israeli Cuisine,” The times of Israel, February 11, 2020.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-jewish-dish-of-cholent-is-now-a-melting-pot-of-israeli-cuisine/

Dr. Emmanuel Navon, “The ‘Deal of the Century’ and Israel’s European Challenge,” The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, February 6, 2020.
https://jiss.org.il/en/navon-the-deal-of-the-century-and-israels-european-challenge/

Rachel Neiman, “How Israel Became B- Movie Central,” Israel21C, February 12, 2020.
https://www.israel21c.org/how-israel-became-b-movie-central/

Kat Odell, “Michael Solomonov’s New Philly Restaurant is an Ode to the Israeli Grill House,” Food & Wine, February 7, 2020.
https://www.foodandwine.com/travel/restaurants/michael-solomonovs-laser-wolf-philadelphia

Paul Pillar, “Cold War Containment and the Middle East,” The National Interest, February 19, 2020. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/cold-war-containment-and-middle-east-125116

David Pollock, “Palestinian Majority Rejects Two-State Solution, But Backs Tactical Compromises,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 25, 2020. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/palestinian-majority-rejects-two-state-solution-but-backs-tactical-compromi
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, “Evaluating the Trump Administration’s Policies on Iran, Iraq and the Use of Force,” House Iran Hearing Testimony, February 28, 2020. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20200228/110573/HHRG-116-FA00-Wstate-PompeoM-20200228.pdf

Omar H. Rahman, “The Real Threat to Palestine is a Crisis of Leadership,” Brookings Institute, February 13, 2020.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/02/13/the-real-threat-to-palestine-is-a-crisis-of-leadership/

Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research “Public Opinion Poll No (75) Press-Release,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, February 11, 2020.
https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/797

Rachel Ringler, “Russian Comfort Food is Making a Comeback in Israel,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 12, 2020.
https://www.jta.org/2020/02/12/food/russian-comfort-food-is-making-a-comeback-in-israel

Christopher Robinson, “U.S-Libya Policy,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony, February 12, 2020.
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021220_Robinson_Testimony.pdf or watch the video, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/us-libya-policy-021220

Arik Rudnitzky, “A New Political Card,” The Israel Democracy Institute, February 26, 2020.
https://en.idi.org.il/articles/30882

Natan Sachs, “Israel is Back on the Brink,” Brookings Institute, March 3, 2020.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/03/03/israel-is-back-on-the-brink/

Tal Schneider, “China Trade is a National Security Issue,” Globes, Israel Business News, February 3, 2020.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-control-your-business-with-china-1001317192

David Schenker, “U.S-Libya Policy,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony, February 12, 2020. https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021220_Schenker_Testimony.pdf

Gilead Sher, “Comparing the ‘Deal of the Century’ with Previous Plans,” INSS Insight No. 1255, February 2, 2020.
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/trump-deal-comparative-review/?offset=2&posts=1258&type=399

Joel Singer, “President Trump’s Plan to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Some ‘Big Picture’ Observations,” Joel Singer, February 26, 2020.
https://www.joelsinger.org/president-trumps-plan-to-end-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-some-big-picture-observations/

Ken Stein, “Political Statements on a Two-State Solution to Resolve the Arab (Palestinian)-Israeli Conflict, 1937–Present,” Center for Israel Education, February 2020. https://israeled.org/political-statements-on-a-two-state-solution/

Jessica Steinberg, “How Eden Alene Became the 1st Israeli of Ethiopian Descent Bound for Eurovision,” The Times of Israel, February 7, 2020.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-eden-alene-became-first-israeli-of-ethiopian-descent-to-go-to-eurovision/
Sue Surkes, “Monopoly Nation: How a Handful of Firms Control Prices, Hold Israelis Ransom,” The Times of Israel, February 26, 2020.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/monopoly-nation-how-a-handful-of-firms-control-prices-hold-israelis-to-ransom/

Rich Tenorio, “Real-Life Fertility Saga Bears Fruit When Israeli Director Reproduces It in Film,” The Times of Israel, February 13, 2020.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/real-life-fertility-saga-bears-fruit-when-israeli-director-reproduces-it-in-film/

Yohanan Tzoreff, “The Palestinians at a Crossroads- Following the Presentation of the ‘Deal of the Century,’” INSS Insight No. 1261, February 23, 2020.
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-palestinians-are-on-a-cross-roads/

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

Dana Blander, “Is Prime Minister Netanyahu Setting a Global Precedent?” Israel Democracy Institute, January 6, 2020. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/29550

Brian Blum, “Top reasons 2019 was a record-breaking year for Israel’s economy,” Israel21c, January 15, 2020. https://israeled.org/top-reasons-2019-was-a-record-breaking-year-for-israels-economy/

Itai Brun and Itai Shapira “2020 Strategic Overview: Growing Challenges to Israel’s Current Strategy,” INSS Strategic Assessment, January 2020. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/2020-strategic-overview-growing-challenges-to-israels-current-strategy/

Itai Brun and Itai Shapira, “The Operational Environment: New Capabilities of the Radical Shiite Axis,” INSS Strategic Assessment, January 2020. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-operational-environment-new-capabilities-of-the-radical-shiite-axis/

Shaul Chorev, Beni Shpeinner, Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, “Turkey maneuver could block Israel’s access to the sea,” Ynet News, December 28, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryg47F1yI

Tamara Cofman Wittes and Adrianna Pita, “[Podcast] What does Trump’s Middle East plan mean for Israel and Palestine?” Brookings Institute, January 29, 2020. https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/what-does-trumps-middle-east-plan-mean-for-israel-and-palestine/

Udi Dekel, Noa Shusterman, and Anat Kurz, “The Palestinian System: Weakened and Close to Escalation,” INSS Strategic Assessment, January 2020. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-palestinian-system-weakened-and-close-to-escalation/

Udi Dekel, Carmit Valensi, and Orna Mizrahi, “The Northern Arena: Toward a Large-Scale Conflict,” INSS Strategic Assessment, January 2020. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-northern-arena-toward-a-large-scale-conflict/

Meir Elran, Carmit Padan, Pnina Sharvit Baruch, Sason Hadad, Zipi Israeli, Shmuel Even, and Yehuda Ben Meir, “Israeli Society: Challenges to Societal Resilience,” INSS Strategic Assessment, January 2020. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/israeli-society-challenges-to-societal-resilience/

Sarah Feuer, Itai Brun, Gallia Lindenstrauss, Oded Eran, Yoram Schweitzer, Ofir Winter, Yoel Guzansky, Remi Daniel, Eldad Shavit, and Ari Heistein, “The Regional System: Struggling for the Shape of the Middle East,” INSS Strategic Assessment, January 2020. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-regional-system-struggling-for-the-shape-of-the-middle-east/

Manfred Gerstenfeld, “The Soleimani Killing and Left-Liberals,” BESA Center, January 14, 2020. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/soleimani-killing-leftists/

Eytan Gilboa, “Why, despite similar interests, did the US kill Qasem Soleimani?” Jerusalem Post, January 6, 2020. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Why-despite-similar-interests-did-the-US-kill-Qasem-Soleimani-613340

Roman Gokhman, “Israeli duo Lola Marsh definitively back with ‘Someday Tomorrow Maybe,'” Riff Magazine, January 20, 2020. https://riffmagazine.com/features/lola-marsh-someday-tomorrow-maybe/

Raz Greenberg, “In 2019, Israel Turned Japanese,” Tablet, January 7, 2020.  https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/296472/in-2019-israel-turned-japanese

Gershon Hacohen, “A Historic Opportunity that Must Be Seized,” BESA Center, January 30, 2020. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/trump-plan-historic-opportunity/   

Kasim Hafeez, “Who was Qassim Soleimani?” Jewish Policy Center, January 26, 2020. https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2020/01/16/who-was-qassim-soleimani/

Jessica Halfin, “The delicious reemergence of freekeh in Israeli cuisine,” Israel21c, January 27, 2020. https://www.israel21c.org/the-delicious-reemergence-of-freekeh-in-israeli-cuisine/

Tamar Hermann, Or Anabi, William Cubbison and Ella Heller, “Israel Democracy Institute: 2019 Democracy Index,” Israel Democracy Institute, January 7, 2020. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/29494

Efraim Inbar, “Jordan will not impede the US Peace Plan,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, January 31, 2020.  https://jiss.org.il/en/inbar-jordan-will-not-impede-us-peace-plan/   

Martin Indyk, John Allen, Barbara Leaf, Richard Haass, Joseph Votel and Amos Yadlin, “The “Deal of the Century” and the United States in the Region (An INSS Panel Discussion),” INSS, January 28, 2020. https://www.inss.org.il/the-day-after-soleimani-a-new-middle-east/

Ben Kenigsberg, ‘Incitement’ [Israeli Film] Review: A Tense, Angry Reckoning With [PM Rabin’s] Assassination,” New York Times, January 30, 2020.  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/movies/incitement-review.html

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli woman makes history, winning Directors Guild Award,” Israel21c, January 30, 2020. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-woman-makes-history-winning-directors-guild-award/

Martin Kramer, “How does Trump’s partition plan compare?” Times of Israel, January 29, 2020. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-does-trumps-partition-plan-compare/

Michael Knights, “Does Soleimani’s Death Matter? Findings from an [early] 2019 Workshop,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 3, 2020. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/does-soleimanis-death-matter-findings-from-a-2019-workshop

Abdel Moneim Said, “Egypt weathered the storms of the Arab Spring,” al-Ahram Online, December 26, 2019. http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/4/358289/Opinion/Egypt-.aspx

Frank Musmar, “The Leviathan Natural Gas Field Could Be a Game-Changer for Israel-EU Relations,” BESA Center, January 19, 2020. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/leviathan-gas-israel-europe/

Jacques Neriah, “A Scorecard on the First Decade after the Arab Spring,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 31, 2019. https://jcpa.org/article/a-scorecard-on-the-first-decade-after-the-arab-spring/

Assaf Orion, Eldad Shavit, Shahar Eilam, and Rotem Oreg, “The International System: Superpower Competition and Functional Difficulties,” INSS Strategic Assessment, January 2020. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-international-system-superpower-competition-and-functional-difficulties/

Yoram Peri, “The Widening Military–political Gap in Israel,” SWP Berlin, January 2020. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/the-widening-military-political-gap-in-israel/

Dennis Ross, “Why Soleimani’s Killing Is a Gift to Vladimir Putin,” Washington Post, January 11, 2020. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-soleimanis-killing-is-a-gift-to-vladimir-putin

Natan Sachs, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Bruce Riedel, and Hady Amr “Around the halls: Brookings experts on the Middle East react to the White House’s peace plan,” Brookings Institute, January 29, 2020. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/01/29/brookings-experts-react-to-the-white-houses-middle-east-peace-plan/

Jonathan Schanzer, “Where the US-Iran shadow war goes from here,” Pundicity, January 10, 2020. http://schanzer.pundicity.com/23680/where-the-us-iran-shadow-war-goes-from-here

Sima Shine, Raz Zimmt, and Emily B. Landau, “Iran: Defiance and Audacity, alongside Internal Challenges,” INSS Strategic Assessment, January 2020. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/iran-defiance-and-audacity-alongside-internal-challenges/

Times of Israel Staff, “Israeli pop stars Static & Ben El drop new song with US rapper Pitbull,” Times of Israel, January 12, 2020. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-pop-stars-static-ben-el-drop-new-song-with-us-rapper-pitbull/

Rich Tenorio, “In film ‘Crescendo,’ an Israeli-Palestinian orchestra struggles to get in tune,” Times of Israel, January 16, 2020. https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-film-crescendo-an-israeli-palestinian-orchestra-struggles-to-get-in-tune/

Nathan Thrall, “Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan Exposes the Ugly Truth,” New York Times, January 29, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opinion/trump-peace-plan.html 

Flora Tsapovsky, “Coming to a Hotel Near You: Israeli Cuisine” Tablet Magazine, January 13, 2020. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/295878/hotels-israeli-cuisine

David M. Weinberg, “15 reasons to embrace the Trump Plan,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, January 31, 2020. https://jiss.org.il/en/weinberg-15-reasons-to-embrace-the-trump-plan/

Amos Yadlin, “Net Assessment and Policy Recommendations for 2020,” INSS Strategic Assessment, January 2020. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/conclusion-net-assessment-and-policy-recommendations-for-2020/

Amos Yadlin, “The Trump Plan: What’s Next?” INSS, January 28, 2020. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-trump-plan-whats-next/

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

Ron Ben-Yishai, “Israel and Iran’s game of cat and mouse,” Ynet News, December 23, 2019.  https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SJwc3f00S

Hannah Brown, “Cultural Affairs: The curious emergence of Israeli film and TV,” Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Cultural-Affairs-The-curious-emergence-of-Israeli-film-and-TV-611507 

Mordechai Chaziza, “China in the Middle East: Tourism as a Stealth Weapon,”
Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2019. https://www.meforum.org/59293/mordechai-chaziza-china-in-the-middle-east

Congressional Research Service, “U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress,” Congressional Research Service, December 19, 2019. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R44891.pdf

Barry Davis, “Lady Rada takes on Holiday: Israel’s beloved star vocalist performs Lady Day in her own way,” Jerusalem Post, December 4, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Lady-Rada-takes-on-Holiday-609922 

Oded Eran and Shimon Stein, “A New Leadership at the European Union: A Chance for Better EU Ties with Israel?” INSS, December 19, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/a-new-leadership-at-the-european-union-a-chance-for-better-eu-ties-with-israel/?offset=4&posts=1244&type=399 

Sarah J. Feuer and Carmit Valensi, “Arab Spring 2.0? Making Sense of the Protests Sweeping the Region,” INSS, December 1, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/arab-spring-2-0-making-sense-of-the-protests-sweeping-the-region/

Ezra Friedman, “Gas and foreign policy: how Israel is leveraging energy to stabilize the region and advance geostrategic objectives,” Fathom Journal, December 2019. http://fathomjournal.org/gas-and-foreign-policy-how-israel-is-leveraging-energy-to-stabilise-the-region-and-advance-geostrategic-objectives/

Miriam Groner, Meet An Israeli Version Of Prince Who Fuses Arabic, Hebrew, Jazz & Soul Music,” Jewish Week, December 17, 2019. https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-israeli-version-of-prince-who-fuses-arabic-hebrew-jazz-soul-music/

Judah Ari Gross, “IDF chief warns Israelis: The next war will hit our home front extremely hard,” Times of Israel, December 25, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-israel-alone-in-the-fight-against-iran-in-syria-iraq/

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, “Getting Iran Out of Syria: The Dayan Formula,” BESA Center, December 10, 2019. https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1368-Getting-Iran-Out-of-Syria-Hacohen-English-final.pdf

Hagay Hacohen, “The best of Russian [dance] culture,” Jerusalem Post, December 26, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/The-best-of-Russian-culture-612232

Eytan Halon, “Alternative’ poverty report: Over 1m. Israeli children living in poverty,” Jerusalem Post, December 9, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Alternative-poverty-report-Over-1m-Israeli-children-living-in-poverty-610314

Ruth Halperin-Kadri and Einat Ofer, “One hundred years of patriarchy,” Ynet News, December 14, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/Hybq7r6ar

Michael Harvey, “Judaism is not a Nationality,” Times of Israel, December 11, 2019. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/judaism-is-not-a-nationality/

Mark A. Heller, “The United States and Israel: The Risk of Growing Apart,” SWP Berlin, December 2019. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/the-united-states-and-israel-the-risk-of-growing-apart/

Simon Henderson, “The Obstacles Still Facing Israel’s Leviathan Gas Field,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy,” December 31, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-obstacles-still-facing-israels-leviathan-gas-field 

Arthur Herman, “China and the US-Israel Special Relationship,” Tikvah Fund, December 2019. https://tikvahfund.org/library/podcast-arthur-herman-on-china-and-the-u-s-israel-special-relationship/

Arthur Herman, “The Impasse Obstructing US-Israel Relations, and How to Remedy it,” Mosaic, December 2019. https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/politics-current-affairs/2019/12/its-time-for-a-common-market-in-defense-trade/

Israel Democracy Institute Staff, “Two Economies – One Society [conference proceedings],” The Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society, Jerusalem, Israel, December 17-18, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/media/13595/two-economies-one-society.pdf?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_12_25_2019_12_38)

Michael Klein, “An early look at Laser Wolf, Mike Solomonov’s Israeli skewer restaurant,” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 24, 2019. https://www.inquirer.com/food/laser-wolf-kensington-mike-solomonov-steve-cook-israeli-skewers-restaurant-20191223.html

Middle East Institute, “2019 Year in Review: Uprising, elections, and international contestation [twelve short essays],” December 23, 2019. https://www.mei.edu/blog/2019-year-review

MITVIM Staff, “The 2019 Israeli Foreign Policy Index of the Mitvim Institute,” MITVIM Institute, November 2019. http://mitvim.org.il/images/English_Report_-_The_2019_Israeli_Foreign_Policy_Index_of_the_Mitvim_Institute.pdf

Kyle Orton, “Obama, Trump and the collapse of the American position in the Middle East,” Fathom Journal, November 2019.  http://fathomjournal.org/obama-trump-and-the-collapse-of-the-american-position-in-the-middle-east/

Adam Rasgon, “EU, including Germany’s Merkel, pressures Palestinians to hold elections,” Times of Israel, December 27, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/eu-including-germanys-merkel-pressuring-palestinians-to-hold-elections/

Paul Rivlin, “The Iranian Empire Cracks, at Home and Abroad,” Moshe Dayan Center, December 31, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/iranian-empire-cracks-home-and-abroad

Gregg Roman, “A Likud Primary on Palestinian Defeat,” The Times of Israel, December 25, 2019. https://www.meforum.org/60161/a-likud-primary-on-palestinian-defeat

Yuval Shany and Amir Fuchs, “Immunity for the Prime Minister: Explainer,” Israel Democracy Institute, December 31, 2019.  https://en.idi.org.il/articles/29509

Eldad Shavit, Sima Shine and Bat Chen Feldman, “Political Instability in Iraq: A Serious Threat to Iran’s Interests,” INSS, December 24, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/political-instability-in-iraq-a-serious-threat-to-irans-interests/?offset=2&posts=1244&type=399

Cathy Siegner, “Israeli startup Sufresca gets $500K to develop edible produce packaging,” Food Dive, December 20, 2019. https://www.fooddive.com/news/israeli-startup-sufresca-gets-500k-to-develop-edible-produce-packaging/569474/ 

Jessica Steinberg, “With Jewish and Arab musicians, Nazareth conservatory puts on first festival,” Times of Israel, December 7, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-jewish-and-arab-musicians-nazareth-conservatory-puts-on-first-festival/ 

Times of Israel Staff, “Israeli musician Dennis Lloyd [Nir Tibor] says global success caught him by surprise,” Times of Israel, December 20, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-musician-dennis-lloyd-says-global-success-caught-him-by-surprise/

Eric Tlozek, “Israel’s food tech scene experiments with insects and computer-designed sweeteners,” ABC News, January 2, 2019. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-03/israeli-companies-innovate-for-the-future-of-food/11757680

Eyal Tsir Cohen and Kevin Huggard, “What can we learn from the escalating Israeli raids in Syria?” Brookings INstitute, December 6, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/12/06/what-can-we-learn-from-the-escalating-israeli-raids-in-syria/ 

Paul Tugwell, “Leaders from Israel, Cyprus, Greece Sign EastMed Gas Pipe Deal,” Bloomberg, January 1, 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-02/leaders-from-israel-to-greece-set-to-sign-eastmed-gas-pipe-deal

Mira Tzoref, “ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi’s “Rehabilitation of Anwar al-Sadat,”” Dayan Center, December 15, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/abd-al-fattah-al-sisis-rehabilitation-anwar-al-sadat

Bilal Wahab, “What Will It Take to Repair Middle Eastern Economies?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Winter 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/opeds/Wahab20191209-SevenPillars-bookchapter.pdf

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

Tamuz Avivi, “Female Representation in Israeli Politics,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 19, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/female-representation-in-israeli-politics

Shlomo Ben-Ami, “The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Conundrum,” Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Fall 2019. https://www.international.ucla.edu/israel/currents 

Barukh Binah, ” US Policies toward Israel and the Middle East,” MITVIM, November 2019. http://mitvim.org.il/images/English_-_US_Policies_towards_Israel_and_the_Middle_East_October_2019.pdf 

Hannah Brown, “Making sweet music in southern bomb shelters as the rockets rained down,” Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Making-sweet-music-in-southern-bomb-shelters-as-the-rockets-rained-down-607858  

Patrick Clawson, “Khamenei’s Domestic and Foreign Response Options to the Protests,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 21, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/khameneis-domestic-and-foreign-response-options-to-the-protests

Congressional Research Service, “U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress,” Congressional Research Service, November 18, 2019. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R44891.pdf 

Matthew Continetti, “Democrats and Israel: Nothing but Daylight,” Commentary, December 2019. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/democrats-and-israel-nothing-but-daylight/ 

Doron Ella, “A Regulatory Mechanism to Oversee Foreign Investment in Israel: Security Ramifications,” INSS, November 19, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/?ptype=399 

Meir Elran, Carmit Padan, Sason Hadad, and Shmuel Even, “The Recent Round of Fighting with Islamic Jihad: Lessons for the Civilian Front,” INSS, November 27, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-recent-round-of-fighting-with-islamic-jihad-lessons-for-the-civilian-front/?offset=3&posts=1238&type=399   

Sarah J. Feuer and Carmit Valensi, “Arab Spring 2.0? Making Sense of the Protests Sweeping the Region,” INSS, December 1, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/arab-spring-2-0-making-sense-of-the-protests-sweeping-the-region/

Adrian Filut, “Israel’s Income Polarization Just Keeps Growing,” Calcalist, November 28, 2019. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3774790,00.html 

Marcus B Gilban, “Thousands of Brazilians trill along with Israeli initiative Koolulam,” Times of Israel, December 2, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-brazilians-trill-along-with-israeli-initiative-koolulam/ 

Dore Gold, “U.S. Policy Change on Israeli Settlements: A Long Awaited Correction,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, November 19, 2019. http://jcpa.org/article/u-s-policy-change-on-israeli-settlements-a-long-awaited-correction/ 

Shalom Golman, “Ray Charles in Israel When the ‘Genius of Soul’ sang ‘Hava Nagila’ with David Ben-Gurion,” Tablet, November 4, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/293059/ray-charles-in-israel 

Daniel Gordis, “Podcast: Daniel Gordis on the Rift Between American and Israeli Jews,” Tikva Fund, April 3, 2019. https://tikvahfund.org/library/podcast-daniel-gordis-on-the-rift-between-american-and-israeli-jews/

Eli Greenbaum, “Impact of export control law on the Israeli economy,” Jerusalem Post, November 27, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Impact-of-export-control-law-on-the-Israeli-economy-609220 

Yoel Guzansky and Sima Shine, “A Possible Thaw in Iranian-Saudi Tensions: Ramifications for the Region and for Israel,” INSS, November 2, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/a-possible-thaw-in-iranian-saudi-tensions-ramifications-for-the-region-and-for-israel/?offset=14&posts=1238&type=399 

Eytan Halon, “50% of Israel’s children are receiving a ‘third world education’,” Jerusalem Post, November 15, 2019.  https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Israeli-Society-Ringing-the-demographic-alarm-bells-607913

Tamar Herman, “After Indictment – 59% of Israelis Think Netanyahu Should Step Aside,” Israel Democracy Institute, November 28, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/28984 

Israel Democracy Institute, “Prime Minister under Investigation – A Guide for the Perplexed,” Israel Democracy Institute, February 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/25944 

Ephraim Kam, “Iranian Stakes in Syria,” INSS, November 12, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/iranian-stakes-in-syria/

Michael Kaminer, “This Israeli Chef Found Michelin Starred Restaurants ‘F*ing Boring.’ So He Turned To Kosher,” Forward, November 6, 2019. https://forward.com/food/434214/this-israeli-chef-found-michelin-starred-restaurants-to-be-fucking-boring/ 

King Abdullah II and Robert Satloff, “Jordan’s King Abdullah II Addresses Key Mideast Issues in Exclusive Washington Institute Interview,” Washington institute for Near East Policy, November 27, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/press-room/view/jordans-king-abdullah-ii-addresses-key-mideast-issues-in-exclusive-washingt

Abigail Klein Leichman, “2 albums from bands led by Israelis get Grammy nominations,” Israel21c, November 24, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/2-albums-from-bands-led-by-israelis-get-grammy-nominations/ 

Sivan Klingbail and Lior Dattel, “Israeli Economist Proposes Mandating Paternity Leave to Close Gender Gaps,” Haaretz, November 8, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-economist-proposes-mandating-paternity-leave-to-close-gender-gaps-1.8094971

Michael Knights, “U.S. Interests and the Unsustainable Status Quo in Iraq,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 12, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/u.s.-interests-and-the-unsustainable-status-quo-in-iraq

Ivan Levingston, “Israel’s Mossad Is Recruiting More Ultra-Orthodox Men,” Bloomberg, November 19, 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-19/israel-s-mossad-is-recruiting-more-ultra-orthodox-men

Michael Oren, “The Coming Middle East Conflagration,” The Atlantic, November 4, 2019. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/israel-preparing-open-war/601285/

Adi Pick, “Japanese Interest in Israeli Tech Continues to Surge,” Calcalist, December 1, 2019. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3774920,00.html

Paul Rivlin, “he Politics of Lebanon’s Economic Collapse,” Moshe Dayan Center, November 28, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/politics-lebanons-economic-collapse

Natan Sachs and Adrianna Pita, “What does Netanyahu’s indictment mean for Israel?” Brookings Institute, November 22, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/what-does-netanyahus-indictment-mean-for-israel/

Felicia Schwartz, “‘It’s So Easy to Live Here.’ Jewish Settlements Go Mainstream in Israel,” Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2019. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-jewish-settlers-israelis-chasing-a-suburban-dream-in-the-west-bank-11573409035

Marc Shulman, “Israel’s Political System is Gridlocked—but the Economy Happily Ticks Along,” Newsweek, November 4, 2019. https://www.newsweek.com/israel-politics-paralyzed-economy-tech-fine-1469659 

Shoshana Solomon, “Michigan eyes Israeli tech to tackle water, mobility, cybersecurity challenges,” Times of Israel, November 21, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/michigan-eyes-israeli-tech-to-tackle-water-mobility-cybersecurity-challenges/

Jonathan Spyer, “Hizballah’s Deep State in Lebanon,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, November 7, 2019. https://jiss.org.il/en/spyer-hizballahs-deep-state-in-lebanon/

Yedidia Stern, “Assault on Israel’s Judicial System: The Angel of History is Watching Us,” Israel Democracy Institute, November 6, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/28856 

Maddy Sweitzer-Lamme, “Michael Solomonov’s New Midtown Village Restaurant Is a Celebration of Israeli Street Food,” Philadelphia Magazine, November 25, 2019. https://www.phillymag.com/foobooz/2019/11/25/solomonov-merkaz-opening/ 

Yohanan Tzoreff and Yoram Schweitzer “Cracks in the Palestinian Resistance Camp?” INSS, November 27, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/cracks-in-the-palestinian-resistance-camp/?offset=2&posts=1238&type=399 

Stefan Wolfrum, “Israel’s Contradictory Gas Export Policy,” SWP Berlin, November 2019. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/israels-contradictory-gas-export-policy/

Raul Wootliff, “‘A time of unprecedented darkness’: Rivlin passes coalition-building buck to MKs,” Times of Israel, November 21, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-time-of-unprecedented-darkness-rivlin-passes-coalition-building-buck-to-mks/

Jim Zanotti and Clayton Thomas, “Turkey: Background, U.S. Relations, and Sanctions In Brief,” Congressional Research Service, November 8, 2019. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/R44000.pdf

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David Adesnik and Aykan Erdemir, “Trump’s first mistake in Syria was ever trusting Erdogan at all,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, October 17, 2019. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/17/trumps-first-mistake-in-syria-was-ever-trusting-erdogan-at-all/

Jawad Anani and Shimon Shamir, “Jordan-Israel Peace at Twenty-Five: Past, Present, and Future,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 17, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/jordan-israel-peace-at-twenty-five-past-present-and-future

Rami Ayyub, “Young maestro takes baton as Israel Philharmonic’s Zubin Mehta ends 50-year tenure,” Reuters, October 24, 2019. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-classicalmusic/young-maestro-takes-baton-as-israel-philharmonics-zubin-mehta-ends-50-year-tenure-idUSKBN1X31N4

BBC, “Turkey’s Syria offensive explained in four maps,” BBC News, October 14, 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49973218

Ilan Ben Zion, “Israel’s Oscars pick explores mind of Rabin’s assassin,” Al-Monitor, October 30, 2019. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/10/israels-oscar-pick-explores-mind-of-rabins-assassin.html

Sandee Brawarsky, “The Cultural Blender That Is Israeli Food,” The New York Jewish Week, October 3, 2019. https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/the-cultural-blender-that-is-israeli-food/

Myron Brilliant, “Deepening the US-Israel relationship through business,” The Hill, October 23, 2019. https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/467014-deepening-the-us-israel-relationship-through-business

Soner Cagaptay, “Turkey’s Syria Incursion: What Spurred It, and What’s Next?” Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy, October 11, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/turkeys-syria-incursion-what-spurred-it-and-whats-next

Dani Charles, “Chutzpah meets Monozukuri: A Look at the Japanese-Israeli Cyber Relationship,” Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, September 24, 2019. https://spfusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Chutzpah-meets-Monozukuri-FINAL-1.pdf

Edy Cohen, “The Crisis of Violence in Israeli Arab Society,” BESA Center, October 29, 2019.  https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/crisis-violence-israeli-arab-society/

Barry Davis, “It’s ‘Quarter To Africa’ Time In Israel,” The Jerusalem Post, October 6, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Its-Quarter-to-Africa-time-in-Israel-603890

Gadi Eisenkot and Gabi Siboni, “Guidelines for Israel’s National Security Strategy,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyFocus160-EisenkotSiboni.pdf

Ben Fishman and Ghaith al-Omari, “The Jordan Exception in U.S. Foreign Assistance,” The Washington Institute, March 7, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-jordan-exception-in-u.s.-foreign-assistance

Daniel Gordis, “Podcast on the Rift Between American and Israeli Jews,” Tikvah, April 3, 2019. https://tikvahfund.org/library/podcast-daniel-gordis-on-the-rift-between-american-and-israeli-jews/

Gershon Hacohen, “A Strategic View of the Turkish Campaign Against the Kurds,” BESA Center, October 31, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkey-campaign-against-kurds/

Amos Harel, “The Mideast Trump Leaves Behind: A Resurgent ISIS, an Arab Spring Comeback,” Haaretz, October 13, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/.premium-the-mideast-trump-leaves-behind-a-resurgent-isis-an-arab-spring-comeback-1.7966335

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “A Majority of Israelis Prefer a Unity Government,” The Israel Democracy Institute, October 2, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/28718

Kevin Huggard and Natan Sachs, “Israel’s government formation: Answering the key questions,” Brookings, October 25, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/10/25/israels-government-formation-answering-the-key-questions/

James Jeffrey, “Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Assessing the Impact of Turkey’s Offensive in Northeast Syria,” US Department of State, October 22, 2019. https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/102219_Jeffrey_Testimony.pdf

Kayla Koontz, “Borders Beyond Borders,” Middle East Institute, October 2019. https://www.mei.edu/sites/default/files/2019 10/Borders%20Beyond%20Borders_Oct.%2025%2C%202019.pdf

Gallia Lindenstrauss and Eldad Shavit, “Turkey’s Offensive in Northeastern Syria: The Expected, the Surprising, and the Still Unknown,” INSS, October 23, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/turkeys-offensive-in-northeastern-syria-the-expected-the-surprising-and-the-still-unknown/?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=INSS%20Insight%20No.%201217

David Makovsky, “Netanyahu Era Likely Coming to an End Amid Post-Election Standoff,” The Washington Institute, October 21, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/netanyahu-era-likely-coming-to-an-end-amid-post-election-standoff

David Makovsky and Dennis Ross, “What Israel’s Past Leaders Can Teach Us About Its Current Problem,” The Washington Institute, October 23, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/what-israels-past-leaders-can-teach-us-about-its-current-problem

Orna Mizrahi, “The Mass Demonstrations in Lebanon: What Do They Portend?” INSS, October 25, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-mass-demonstrations-in-lebanon-what-do-they-portend/

Jacques Neriah, “Was the American Decision to Abandon the Kurds a Surprise?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. October 23, 2019. http://jcpa.org/article/was-the-american-decision-to-abandon-the-kurds-a-surprise/ 

Smadar Perry, “The slow death of a promising peace,” Ynet News, October 27, 2019.

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Bruce Riedel, “25 years on, remembering the path to peace for Jordan and Israel,” Brookings, October 23, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/10/23/25-years-on-remembering-the-path-to-peace-for-jordan-and-israel/

Dennis Ross, “Trump’s aversion to alliances is making the world a more dangerous place,” The Hill, October 20, 2019. https://thehill.com/opinion/international/466619-trumps-aversion-to-alliances-is-making-the-world-a-more-dangerous-place

Ben Shapiro, “The US can learn from Israel’s social cohesion,” Globes, October 25, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-the-us-can-learn-from-israels-social-cohesion-1001304843

Natan Sharansky and Alan Dershowitz, “Behind the Mask,” Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy, September 2019. https://4il.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/MSA-report-Behind-the-Mask.pdf

Shahar Smooha, “Israeli bargain hunters flock to West Bank,” Globes, September 21, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-bargain-hunters-flock-to-west-bank-1001301478

Ken Stein, “The Jordanian-Israeli treaty at 25: Geography, Location and Mutual Interest,” Center for Israel Education, October 2019. https://israeled.org/the-jordanian-israeli-treaty-at-25-geography-location-and-mutual-interest/

Irina Tsukerman, “Why No Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran Will Ever Last,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, October 24, 2019, https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-deals-wishful-thinking/

Avi Waksman, “A Third Election Cycle Can Only Be Bad News for Israel’s Economy,” Haaretz, October 3, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-a-third-election-cycle-can-only-be-bad-news-for-israel-s-economy-1.7927452

Danny Zaken, “Israel will reopen economic agreements with Palestinians,” Globes, October 10, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-will-reopen-economic-agreements-with-palestinian-authority-1001303483

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Einat Admony, “How Celebrity Chef Einat Admony Learned to Love Israeli Food,” Daily Beast, September 17, 2019. https://www.thedailybeast.com/an-essay-from-chef-einat-admonys-new-book-shuk

Tony Badran, “Welcome to the End of the Process,” The Caravan Journal, September 26, 2019. https://www.hoover.org/research/welcome-end-process

Dany Bahar and Zvi Eckstein, “Israeli Voters Don’t Care About the Economy. They Should,” Foreign Policy Magazine, September 12, 2019. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/12/israeli-voters-dont-care-about-the-economy-they-should-netanyahu-gantz-lieberman/

Katherine Bauer, “The Economics of Calm,” The Caravan Journal, September 26, 2019. https://www.hoover.org/research/economics-calm

Ilan Berman, “China in the Middle East: Reshaping Regional Politics,” Middle East Forum, Fall 2019. https://www.meforum.org/59279/ilan-berman-china-in-the-middle-east

BICOM Staff, “Netanyahu fails to win 61 seat majority,” BICOM, September 18, 2019. www.bicom.org.uk/news/netanyahu-fails-to-win-61-seat-majority/ 

Aya Chajut, “Film That Tells Story of Rabin’s Assassin Wins Israeli Oscars,” Haaretz, September 23, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/.premium-film-that-tells-story-of-yitzhak-rabin-s-killer-wins-israeli-oscars-1.7876699

Barry Davis, “A Tale of Two Musicians,” The Jerusalem Post, September 15, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/A-tale-of-two-musicians-601785

Alex Fishman, “Electoral deadlock distracts Israel from growing threat in Gaza,” Ynet News, September 25, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5596924,00.html

Reulel Marc Gerecht, “The Israeli-Palestinian Struggle, Continued,” The Caravan Journal, October 1, 2019. https://www.hoover.org/research/israeli-palestinian-struggle-continued

Gershon Hacohen, “Israel’s New Existential Challenge,” BESA, September 4, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-existential-challenge/

John Hannah, “Israel Should not worry about Ilhan Omar. It Should Worry About Xi Jinping,” Foundation for Defense of Democracy, September 19, 2019. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/09/19/israel-shouldnt-worry-about-ilhan-omar-it-should-worry-about-xi-jinping/5, 2019 | Commentary Magazine

Charles Hill, “The Unbalanced,” The Caravan Journal, September 17, 2019. https://www.hoover.org/research/unbalanced

Allison Kaplan Sommer, “Israel Election Results: Fewer Women and LGBT People — but Lots of Ex-generals — in New Knesset,” Haaretz, September 24, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-election-results-fewer-women-and-lgbt-people-in-new-knesset-1.7889656

Ofer Kenig, “Farewell Elections, Hello 35th Government,” Israel Democracy Institute, September 22, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/28659

Israel Democracy Institute Staff, “Conditional Partnership 2019: Relations between Jews and Arabs in Israel,” Israel Democracy Institute, September 22, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/28654

JISS Staff, “Might at a Critical Moment,” JISS, September 2019. https://jiss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/mitve-book-eng_web.pdf

Yossi Kuperwasser, “A U.S.-Israeli Defense Pact: How to Ensure That its Advantages Outweigh its Disadvantages,” JCPA, September 19, 2019. http://jcpa.org/article/a-u-s-israeli-defense-pact-how-to-ensure-that-its-advantages-outweigh-its-disadvantages/

Guillaume Lavallée, “Israeli economic growth overshadows struggles of working poor,” The Times of Israel, September 11, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-economic-growth-overshadows-struggles-of-working-poor/

Jonathan Lis, “Israeli President Delivers Rare Rebuke After Netanyahu Gov’t Approves Cameras in Ballots,” Haaretz, September 8, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-everyone-films-netanyahu-convenes-government-to-push-placing-cameras-in-ballots-1.7809321

David Makovsky, “The Premier Who Cried Gevalt: Why Netanyahu Lost His Majority,” The Washington Institute, September 19, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-premier-who-cried-gevalt-why-netanyahu-lost-his-majority

Ghaith al-Omari, “How Will Palestinians Respond to Netanyahu’s Annexation Announcement?” The Washington Institute, September 11, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-will-palestinians-respond-to-netanyahus-annexation-announcement

Assaf Orion and Shahar Eilam, “The American Jewish Community and Israel’s National Security- A Call for Action,” INSS, August 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-american-jewish-community-and-israels-national-security-a-call-for-action/

Emanuele Ottolenghi, “From Latin America to West Africa: Hezbollah’s Complex Web of Connections is fueling its terrorist Activity,” Foundation for Defense of Democracy, August 29, 2019. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/08/29/from-latin-america-to-west-africa-hezbollahs-complex-web-of-connections-is-fuelling-its-terrorist-activity/

David Pollock and Tamar Hermann, “The Increasingly Right Stuff: Religious Parties in Israel’s Upcoming Election,” The Washington Institute, September 5, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/the-increasingly-right-stuff-religious-parties-in-israels-upcoming-election

Itamar Rabinovich, “The Meager Prospects Of Progress On The Palestinian Issue,” The Caravan Journal, September 19, 2019. https://www.hoover.org/research/meagre-prospects-progress-palestinian-issue

Paul Rivlin, “Iran attacks Saudi Arabia,” The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, September 26, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/iran-attacks-saudi-arabia

Dennis Ross, “How to Think About Israeli-Palestinian Peace,” The Caravan Journal, September 24, 2019. https://www.hoover.org/research/how-think-about-israeli-palestinian-peace

Natan Sachs, “The end of Netanyahu’s unchecked reign,” Brookings, September 20, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/09/20/the-end-of-netanyahus-unchecked-reign/

Jonathan Schanzer, “Israel and China,” Foundation for Defense of Democracy, August 27, 2019.   https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/08/27/israel-is-americas-unlikely-ally-in-the-trade-war-with-china/  

Tal Schneider, “Who will be charged with putting together a ruling coalition? A lot will depend on President Reuven Rivlin,” Globes, September 18, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-four-scenarios-for-forming-a-coalition-1001301243

Liza Schoenfein, “Everything Is ‘Sababa’ In Adeena Sussman’s Long-Awaited Israeli Cookbook,” Forward, September 2, 2019. https://forward.com/food/430507/everything-is-sababa-in-adeena-sussmans-long-awaited-israeli-cookbook/

Yoram Schweitzer and Orna Mizrahi, “The Complexity behind Hezbollah’s Response to Israel’s Attacks,” INSS, September 4, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-complexity-behind-hezbollahs-response-to-israels-attacks/?offset=3&posts=1216&type=399

Chemi Shalev, “Election Countdown On Election Day, It’s the Prince of Darkness vs. Israel’s Very Soul,” Haaretz, September 17, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-election-day-is-a-referendum-on-israel-s-very-soul-1.7854165

Simona Shemer, “Israeli Musical Trio A-WA Rocks NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert,” nocamels, September 5, 2019. https://nocamels.com/2019/09/israel-music-trio-yemen-awa-npr-tiny-desk/

Lee Smith, “The Great Demystifier,” Tablet, September 10, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/290944/the-great-de-mystifier

Mike Smith, “Israeli tech looks to the future — whoever wins the election,” The Times of Israel, September 10, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-hi-tech-looks-to-future-whoever-wins-election/

Allison Kaplan Sommer, “Israeli Baseball’s Fantastic Voyage to the 2020 Olympics,” Haaretz, September 30, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-baseball-s-fantastic-voyage-to-the-2020-olympics-1.7915437

Jessica Steinberg, “Upcoming Piano Festival is about more than the piano,” The Times of Israel, September 4, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/upcoming-piano-festival-is-about-more-than-the-piano/

Samuel Tadros, “The Peace Fantasy,” The Caravan Journal, September 19, 2019. https://www.hoover.org/research/peace-fantasy

Avi Waksman, Hagai Amit and Ronny Linder, “Israel’s Next Government Has a Long Economic to-do List and Little Time to Start on It,” Haaretz, September 18, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-israel-s-next-government-has-a-long-to-do-list-and-little-time-to-start-on-it-1.7857102

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Morsi Abu Mokh, “Between the Rational and the Emotional: Factors Influencing the Political Participation of Arab Citizens in Israel,” Moshe Dayan Center, August 12, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/between-rational-and-emotional-factors-influencing-political-participation-arab-citizens

Ofer Aderet, “Israeli Tech Pioneer Who Made It Possible to Talk on Skype and Watch YouTube Dies,” Haaretz, August 23, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-born-tech-pioneer-who-had-enormous-impact-on-ushering-in-digital-era-dies-1.7733708

Yoni Ben Menachem, “Abbas Tries to Convince the Palestinian Public He’s Not Corrupt,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 27, 2019. http://jcpa.org/abbas-tries-to-convince-the-palestinian-public-hes-not-corrupt

Uri Berkovitz, “Germans flock to Israel seeking technology,” Globes, August 12, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-germans-flock-to-israel-seeking-technology-1001296949

BICOM Staff, “September 17 Israeli Elections – Everything You Need to Know,” BICOM, September 2, 2019. www.bicom.org.uk/analysis/september-17-israeli-elections-everything-you-need-to-know/

Stewart Clarke, “Yitzhak Rabin Assassination Film ‘Incitement’ Coming to Market at TIFF,” Variety, August 13, 2019. https://variety.com/2019/film/news/incitement-yitzhak-rabin-toronto-film-festival-1203299224/

Manfred Gerstenfeld, “Contemporary Jewish Academics and the Masochist Tradition,” Begin Sadat Center, August 20, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/jewish-academics-masochism/

Gilad Cohen, “Lowering the cost of living in Israel,” Times of Israel, August 20, 2019. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/lowering-the-cost-of-living-in-israel/    

Shlomi Eldar, “Israel, PA find creative ways to save West Bank from economic collapse,” Al-Monitor, August 29, 2019. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/08/israel-palestinian-authority-taxes-mahmoud-abbas-deduction.html

Oded Eran, “Natural Gas in the Eastern Mediterranean: Will Economic Wisdom Prevail?” INSS, August 26, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/natural-gas-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-will-economic-wisdom-prevail/?offset=7&posts=1213&type=399

Shmuel Even, “Is a New Wind Blowing through the State Comptroller’s Office?” INSS, August 11, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/is-a-new-wind-blowing-through-the-state-comptrollers-office/?offset=10&posts=1213&type=399

David M. Halbfinger, Ben Hubbard and Ronen Bergman, “The Israel-Iran Shadow War Escalates and Breaks Into the Open,” New York Times, August 28, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/world/middleeast/israel-iran-shadow-war.html

Israel Democracy Institute Staff, “The Positions of the Israeli Right-Wing,” Israel Democracy Institute, August 26, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/28392

Chris Jones, “As the musical ‘The Band’s Visit’ heads out on the road, a dilemma: Duplicate the Tony winner or create something new?” Chicago Tribune, August 29, 2019. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-bands-visit-cromer-0901-20190829-n5xppg7rbjdpvjya6hjashwaci-story.html

Roee Kibrik and Nimrod Goren, “Israel’s Foreign Service is Being Wekaened and We are Payiong the Price,” Jerusalem Post, July 31, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-Foreign-Service-is-being-weakened-and-we-are-paying-the-price-597106

Tzvika Klein, “Why Do So Many Israelis Only Connect With Judaism When They Come to America?” Tablet, August 23, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/us/290181/why-israelis-connect-with-judaism-in-america

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli technology chosen to ease Lake Chad water crisis,” Israel21c, August 26, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-technology-chosen-to-ease-lake-chad-water-crisis/

David Koren, “On Demography and Economic Development in Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategic and Security, August 17, 2019. https://israeled.org/on-demography-and-economic-development-in-jerusalem/

Ruth Margalit, “How the Religious Right Transformed Israeli Education,” The New Yorker, August 23, 2019. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-jerusalem/how-the-religious-right-transformed-israeli-education

Rachel Neiman, “The true stories behind 10 best-loved Israeli love songs,” Israel21c, August 13, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/the-true-stories-behind-10-best-loved-israeli-love-songs/

No Camels Staff, “6 Israeli Eateries Nab World Luxury Restaurant Awards,” No Camels, August 13, 2019. http://nocamels.com/2019/08/israel-world-luxury-restaurant-awards/

Assaf Orion and Galia Lavi, “Israel-China Relations: Opportunities and Challenges,” INSS, August 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Memo194_6.pdf

Orit Perlov and Udi Dekel, “Israel in Iraq: Expanding the Campaign against Iran,” INSS, August 27, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-in-iraq-expanding-the-campaign-against-iran/?offset=6&posts=1213&type=399

David Pollock, “Half of Palestinians Still Want All of Palestine – But Most Would Compromise for Less,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 13, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/half-of-palestinians-still-want-all-of-palestine-but-most-would-compromise

Paul Rivlin, “Middle East Demographics to 2030,” Moshe Dayan Center, August 30, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/middle-east-demographics-2030

Dennis Ross and Stuart Eizenstat, “Israel should resist Trump’s efforts to politicize support,” The Hill, August 22, 2019. https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/458388-israel-should-resist-trumps-efforts-to-politicize-support

Shmuel Sandler, “Comparing Netanyahu and Ben-Gurion,” Begin Sadat Center, August 30, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/netanyahu-ben-gurion/

Chemi Shalev, “Israel’s Shining Political Superstar [Liberman] Is a Prime Minister unto Himself,” Haaretz, July 31, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-s-shining-political-superstar-is-a-prime-minister-unto-himself-1.7609259

Zach Sharf, “‘The Spy’ Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen Goes Dramatic in Netflix’s Espionage Limited Series,” IndieWire, August 28, 2019. https://www.indiewire.com/2019/08/the-spy-trailer-sacha-baron-cohen-netflix-1202169293/

Nadav Shragai, “The Unique Status of the Jerusalem Suburb of Wadi Hummus,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 12, 2019. http://jcpa.org/article/the-unique-status-of-the-jerusalem-suburb-of-wadi-hummus/

Tehila Shwartz Altshuler, “The Crossroads between Ethics and Technology,” Israel Democracy Institute, August 6, 2019. https://israeled.org/the-crossroads-between-ethics-and-technology/

Rich Tenoria, “Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker shines the camera on life her community left behind,” Times of Israel, August 9, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ethiopian-israeli-filmmaker-shines-the-camera-on-life-her-community-left-behind/

Dymytro Spilka, “Blueprints for security: how Israel is leading a fight against cybercrime,” Times of Israel, August 15, 2019. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/blueprints-for-security-how-israel-is-leading-a-fight-against-cybercrime/

Ken Stein, “Forming a Nucleus for the Jewish State: 1882-1947,” Center for Israel Education, August 16, 2019. https://israeled.org/forming-a-nucleus-for-the-jewish-state-1882-1947/

Yasmin Yablonko, “Israeli tech cos squeezed by strong shekel,” Globes, August 13, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-tech-cos-squeezed-by-strong-shekel-1001297162

Roie Yellinek, “Israel’s Budding Relationship with the GCC,” Begin Sadat Center, August 25, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-gulf-states-relations/

Raz Zimmt and Tomer Fadlon, “The Economic Crisis and the Protest Movement in Iran: One Year after the Renewal of Sanctions,” INSS, August 28, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-economic-crisis-and-the-protest-movement-in-iran-one-year-after-the-renewal-of-sanctions/

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Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu

Adnan Abu Amer, “How to read Hamas’ visit to Iran,” Al-Monitor, July 26, 2019. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/07/palestine-hamas-iran-relations-visit-delegation-war-us-syria.html 

Mohammed Bani Salameh and Ayman Hayajneh, “How Jordan Can Cope the End of the Syrian Civil War,” Middle East Forum, Summer 2019. https://www.meforum.org/58683/end-syrian-civil-war-jordan 

BICOM Staff, “September 17 Israeli Elections – Everything You Need to Know,” Britain Israel Communications and Research Center, July 18, 2019. www.bicom.org.uk/analysis/september-17-israeli-elections-everything-you-need-to-know/ 

Hannah Brown, “2019 Ophir Award Nominations for Israeli Film Prizes Announced,” Jerusalem Post, July 22, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/2019-Ophir-Award-nominations-for-Israeli-film-prizes-announced-596486

Center for Israel Education, “Scholarly Introductions to The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann: 1885-1952,” Center for Israel Education, July 2019. https://israeled.org/featured-documents/weizmann-letters/

Dan Diker and Sander Gerber, “Lessons Learned in Bahrain,” Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Lessons-learned-in-Bahrain-596828 

Josefin Dolsten, “Elijah Cummings started a program that brings African-American teens to 

Israel,” JTA, August 1, 2019. https://www.jta.org/2019/08/01/united-states/elijah-cummings-program-brings-african-american-teens-to-israel-and-teaches-them-about-the-holocaust

Mark Dubowitz and Saeed Ghasseminejad, “New Sanctions May Deal Heavy Blow to Supreme Leader’s Business Empire,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, July 2, 2019. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/07/02/new-sanctions-may-deal-heavy-blow-to-supreme-leaders-business-empire/

Shira Efron, et al, “The Evolving Israel-China Relationship,” Rand Corporation, 2019. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2641.html 

Karen Elliott House, “Profile of a Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, Promise and Peril in Mohammed Bin Salman’s Vision 2030,” Belfer Center, April 2019. https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/KEH2019/ProfileofaPrince.pdf 

Jonathan Frenkel, “The Israeli startups taking NYC property-tech by storm,” Israel21c, July 21, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/the-israeli-startups-taking-nyc-property-tech-by-storm/ 

Marcus M. Gilban, “Brazilian-Israeli kids’ music video celebrates roots in 2 countries,” Times of Israel, July 25, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/brazilian-israeli-kids-music-video-celebrates-roots-in-2-countries/ 

Shahar Golan, “Ethiopian-Israeli musicians use stage to promote struggles,” Times of Israel, July 12, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ethiopian-israeli-musicians-use-stage-to-promote-struggles/

Daniel Gordis, “Why American Jews Mostly Shrugged Off the Ultimate Insult,” Bloomberg, July 17, 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-17/why-u-s-jews-mostly-shrugged-off-israeli-s-holocaust-insult 

Green Cars Congress, “Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in Israeli technology start-ups MDGo and UVeye,” Green Cars Congress, July 23, 2019. https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/07/20190723-volvo.html 

Eytan Halon, “OECD: Weak Labor Productivity Hampering Growth of Israeli Economy,” Jerusalem Post, July 15, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/OECD-Weak-labor-productivity-hampering-growth-of-Israeli-economy-595633 

Ari Hoffman, “After Seventy Years, Israeli Judaism Is Settling in and Getting Comfortable,” Mosaic Magazine, July 10, 2019. https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/israel-zionism/2019/07/after-seventy-years-israeli-judaism-is-settling-in-and-getting-comfortable/ 

Yaakov Katz, “Why is Israel Outsourcing Its National Infrastructure to China?” Jerusalem Post, August 2, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editors-Notes-Israels-Chinese-folly-597451 

Jeffry Kemp, “American Policy and Changing Alignments in The Middle East,” Center for the National Interest, 2018. https://cftni.org/publications/american-policy-and-changing-alignments-in-the-middle-east/ 

Benjamin Kerstein, “Legendary Conductor Zubin Mehta Retires After 50 Years as Musical Director of Israel Philharmonic,” Algemeiner, July 15, 2019. https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/15/legendary-conductor-zubin-mehta-retires-after-50-years-as-musical-director-of-israel-philharmonic/

Michael J. Koplow, “There’s Something Happening Here, What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear,” Israel Policy Forum, July 18, 2019. https://israelpolicyforum.org/2019/07/18/theres-something-happening-here-what-it-is-aint-exactly-clear/ 

Tal Kra-Oz, “As Jerusalem’s Film Festival Kicks Off, So Does a New Round in Israel’s Culture Wars,” Tablet, July 26, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/288569/jerusalem-film-festival-culture-wars

Joshua Krasna, “The Israel-Jordan Treaty at 25,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, July 26, 2019. https://jiss.org.il/en/krasna-the-israel-jordan-treaty-at-25/ 

P. R. Kumaraswamy, “India’s New Israel Policy,” SWP Berlin, March 2019. https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2019C11_kumaraswamy.pdf 

David Makovsky, “Jared Kushner’s all-or-nothing mistake in the Middle East,” Washington Post, July 1, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/jared-kushners-all-or-nothing-mistake-in-the-middle-east/2019/07/01/f2da1bc2-9c36-11e9-b27f-ed2942f73d70_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.473dce5cb2eb 

Arye Mekel, “A New, Pro-Israel Government in Athens,” BESA Center, July 19, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/greece-pro-israel-government/ 

Michael Oren, “The Three Myths of the Iran Deal,” The Atlantic, July 18, 2019. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/iran-deal-myths-are-pervasive/594208/

Nadav Shragai, “2,000 years, one path: The Pilgrim’s Road being excavated in Jerusalem,” Israel Hayom, July 5, 2019. https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/05/2000-years-one-path/ 

Omar Rahman, “Trump’s economic proposal is an opportunity in disguise,” Brookings Institute, July 26, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/06/26/trumps-economic-proposal-is-an-opportunity-in-disguise/ 

Octavian Report, “State of Israel: an Interview With Michael Oren,” Octavian Report, Summer 2019. https://octavianreport.com/article/michael-oren-israel-world-power/

Paul Rivlin, “The Kushner Plan: Economics of Politics, which Comes First?” Moshe Dayan Center, July 29, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/kushner-plan-economics-or-politics-which-comes-first 

Robert Rockaway, “Yossi and the Mossad: A former Israeli spy describes his life and work in the 1960s and ’70s,” Tablet, June 25, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/286374/yossi-and-the-mossad 

Dennis Ross, “There’s a Deal to Be Had Between the U.S. and Iran,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 20, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/theres-a-deal-to-be-had-between-the-u.s.-and-iran 

Jeff Ruby, “Galit Is a Bridge to Israeli Food,” Chicago Tribune, July 18, 2019. www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2019/Galit-Review/ 

Chemi Shalev, “Israel’s Shining Political Superstar Is a Prime Minister unto Himself,” Haaretz, July 31, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-s-shining-political-superstar-is-a-prime-minister-unto-himself-1.7609259 

Barbara Silverstein, “The Upscale Israeli Food Craze,” Canadian Jewish News, July 10, 2019. https://www.cjnews.com/food/the-upscale-israeli-food-craze 

Shoshana Solomon, “Israel provides $56 million boost for joint Israel-US research projects,” Times of Israel, July 31, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-provides-56-million-boost-for-joint-israel-us-research-projects/ 

Gil Troy, “Center Field: A Negative, Defensive Zionism,” Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Center-Field-A-negative-defensive-Zionism-596606 

Josh Weiss, “‘Entebbe’ Meets ‘Argo’: ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’ Director Declassifies Topical Israeli Spy Film,” Forbes, July 26, 2019.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2019/07/26/entebbe-meets-argo-the-red-sea-diving-resort-director-declassifies-topical-israeli-spy-film/#40a42a8e57ed

Eyal Zisser, “The Many Implications The End of the Syrian Civil War,” Middle East Forum, Summer 2019. https://www.meforum.org/58648/end-of-syrian-civil-war-implications

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

Muriel Asseburg and Nimrod Goren, “Divided and Divisive Europeans, Israel and Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking,” SWP Berlin, 2019. https://www.swpberlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/fachpublikationen/Asseburg_PAX_REPORT_Divided_Divisive.pdf

Laura Adkins, “This 20 year-old Israeli combat soldier is also a drag queen,” Jewish Telegraph Agency, June 28, 2019. https://www.jta.org/2019/06/28/culture/this-20-year-old-israeli-combat-soldier-is-also-a-drag-queen

Ami Ayalon, “Donald Trump’s dangerous deal,” Ynet News, June 23, 2019.  https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5533424,00.html

Tony Badran, “Hezbollah Isn’t Broke. So Why Is Everyone Claiming Otherwise?” Tablet Magazine, May 31, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/285612/hezbollah-isnt-broke

Naama Barak, “Meet the Israeli conductor harmonizing East and West,” Israel21C, June 6, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/meet-the-israeli-conductor-harmonizing-east-and-west/

BBC Staff, “The Arab world in seven charts: Are Arabs turning their backs on religion?,” BBC, June 24, 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48703377

Hannah Brown, “Revealing the Funny Side of the Mossad [Israeli TV],” Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2019.  https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Revealing-the-funny-side-of-the-Mossad-593809

Tamara Cofman Wittes, “Will the Bahrain workshop lead to progress on Middle East peace?” Brookings Institute, June 25, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/will-the-bahrain-workshop-lead-to-progress-on-middle-east-peace/

Amichai Cohen, “For These Do-Over Elections, We are all Smarter,” Israel Democracy Institute, June 16, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/27034 

Anthony Cordesman, “Iran: More War(s) In the Middle East? There Still May Be Options,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 20, 2019. https://www.csis.org/analysis/iran-more-wars-middle-east-there-still-may-be-options

Tyler Cowen, “Israel’s Economic Miracle Most visitors come for the history, but Israel’s economy is also something to marvel at,” Bloomberg, June 6, 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-06/israel-s-economy-shows-that-classical-economic-theory-still-works

James M. Dorsey, “Russian-Iranian Strains Raise Possibility of US-Israel-Russia Deal on Syria,” BESA Center, June 14, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/us-israel-russia-deal-syria/

Giora Eiland, “Before Israel is dragged into a U.S.-Iran war,” Ynet News, June 28, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5538096,00.html

Tomer Fadlon and Sason Hadad, “Economic Prosperity is Not a Recipe for Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” INSS, June 25, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/economic-prosperity-not-recipe-resolution-israeli-palestinian-conflict/?offset=4&posts=1185&type=399

Seth Frantzman, “Military Options for Targeting Iran without Ground Forces,” Middle East Forum, My 23, 2019. https://www.meforum.org/58571/former-intelligence-officer-here-is-how-the-us

Hillel Frisch, “Ahead of the Bahrain Conference, Hamas Casts Its Lot with Iran,” BESA Center, June 18, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/ahead-of-the-bahrain-conference-hamas-casts-its-lot-with-iran/

Manfred Gerstenfeld, “What Hiding One’s Kippa Says About Europe,” BESA Center, June 11, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/what-hiding-ones-kippa-says-about-europe/

Nimrod Goren, Eyal Ronen and Emir Bayburt, “Israel, the EU, and the Mediterranean: Understanding the Perceptions of Israeli Elite Actors,” Peter Lang, 2019. https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783034338196/chapter-08.xhtml

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, “The Six-Day War and the Israeli Dream,” BESA Center, June 13, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/six-day-war-israeli-dream/

Eytan Halon, “Where do Israeli Businesses Stand Amid the Escalating Trade War?” Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Where-do-Israeli-businesses-stand-amid-the-escalating-trade-war-592916

Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, “Israel Should Prepare for Another Mass Immigration,” Jerusalem Post, July 1, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-should-prepare-for-another-mass-immigration-report-594262

Nathan Jeffay, “How Israeli Jews are increasingly becoming part of a growing craze for Arab tunes,” The Jewish Chronicle, June 14, 2019. https://www.thejc.com/news/news-features/how-israeli-jews-are-increasingly-becoming-part-of-a-growing-craze-for-arab-tunes-music-1.485428

Emily B. Landau and Shimon Stein, “New US initiative: Creating an Environment for Nuclear Disarmament (CEND),” INSS, June 13, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/new-us-initiative-creating-environment-nuclear-disarmament-cend/?offset=9&posts=1185&type=399

Shauna Lyon, “A Tel Aviv Restaurant Brings Bacchanalia and Technique to Hell’s Kitchen,” New Yorker, June 21, 2019. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/01/a-tel-aviv-restaurant-brings-bacchanalia-and-technique-to-hells-kitchen

Magid, “Bahrain summit puts Jordan in a tough spot,” Middle East Institute, June 12, 2019. https://www.mei.edu/publications/bahrain-summit-puts-jordan-tough-spot

Michael Milshtein, “Seventy Years since the “First Hudna:” The Legacy of the Rhodes Agreements,” Moshe Dayan Center, June 6, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/seventy-years-first-hudna-legacy-rhodes-agreements

Orna Mizrahi and Oded Eran, “The Negotiations between Israel and Lebanon on the Maritime Border,” INSS, June 24, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/negotiations-israel-lebanon-maritime-border/?offset=5&posts=1185&type=399

Daniel Neep, “Why hasn’t the Asad Regime Collapsed? Lessons learned from Syria’s History of Turanny,” Crown Center at Brandeis University, June 2019. https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/meb/meb128.html

Paul Salem, “Thinking Arab Futures: Drivers, scenarios, and strategic choices for an improved Arab World,” The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Summer 2019.  https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/thinking-arab-futures/

Sophie Schulman, “With Tech Talent Too Expensive, Israeli Startups Look to High School,” Algemeiner, June 30, 2019. https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/06/30/with-tech-talent-too-expensive-israeli-startups-look-to-high-school/

Joel Singer, “An Oral Agreement Isn’t Worth the Paper It’s Written On,” Joel Singer.com, June 12, 2019. https://www.joelsinger.org/an-oral-agreement-isnt-worth-the-paper-its-written-on/

Amy Spiro, “Assessing the Gal Gadot Effect on Israel’s Image,” Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2019.  https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Assessing-the-Gal-Gadot-effect-593202

Ken Stein, “Egyptian-Israeli Negotiations’ Documents Reader: 1973-1979,” Center for Israel Education, June 2019. https://israeled.org/product/egyptian-israeli-negotiations-documents-reader-1973-1979/

Jessica Steinberg, “As ‘Shtisel’ mania sweeps US, promoter aims to widen the world’s lens on Israel,” Times of Israel, June 20, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-shtisel-mania-sweeps-us-promoter-aims-to-widen-the-worlds-lens-on-israel/

Bret Stephens, “The Pirates of Tehran If Iran won’t change its behavior, we should sink its navy,” New York Times, June 14, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/opinion/iran-oil-tanker-attack.html

Mehmet Yegin, “Turkey between NATO and Russia: The Failed Balance,” SWP Berlin,  June 2019. https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2019C30_Yegin.pdf

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Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu

Meirav Arlosoroff, “Shabbat Costs Israel Billions of Dollars Every Year,” Haaretz, May 16, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-keeping-shabbat-costs-israel-tens-of-billions-of-shekels-every-year-1.7242501

Shay Atias, “The Barring of Eurovision from Jerusalem Is a Win for the BDS Movement,” BESA Center, May 14, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/barring-eurovision-jerusalem-win-for-bds/

Naama Barak, “South Koreans are flocking to Israel for Bible study… why?” Isreal21c, May 26, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/south-koreans-are-flocking-to-israel-for-bible-study-why/  

Barukh Binah, “US Policies toward Israel and the Middle East,” MITVIM, May 2019. http://mitvim.org.il/images/US_Policies_towards_Israel_and_the_Middle_East_April_2019.pdf

Brian Blum, “Openness to new tech makes Israeli biotech a leader, says Philips exec,” Isreal21c, May 6, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/philips-executive-explains-why-israel-is-tops-in-biotech/

Lee Cahaner, “The Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Conservatism-Modernism Spectrum,” Israel Democracy Institute, May 31, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/26911

Center for Israel Education, “June 1967 War theme page: a collection of multimedia resources and primary source documents,” Israeled.org,https://israeled.org/themes/june-1967-war/

Amichai Cohen, “Israel’s New Elections Are the Latest Symptom of an Assault on Its Institutions,” Israel Democracy Institute, May 31, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/26922

Mohammad Darawshe, “To Close the Rifts, Leadership is Needed,” Dayan Center, May 20, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/close-rifts-leadership-needed

Steven Davidson, “In A-Wa’s New Yemenite-Israeli Hip Hop Album, Home Is Not A Place — It’s A Feeling,” Forward, May 31, 2019. https://forward.com/life/425082/in-a-was-new-yemenite-israeli-hip-hop-album-home-is-not-a-place-its-a/

Udi Dekel and Carmit Valensi, “Russia and Iran: Is the Syrian Honeymoon Over?” INSS, May 27, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/russia-iran-syrian-honeymoon/?offset=1&posts=2187

Gadi Eizenkot, “Israeli Security Today: Facing Multiple Challenges on Multiple Fronts,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 17, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israeli-security-today-facing-multiple-challenges-on-multiple-fronts

Oded Eran, “Concerns for Jordan’s Stability,” INSS, May 21, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/concerns-for-jordans-stability/

Josef Federman, “Tough act to follow: Young maestro leads Israel Philharmonic,” Seattle Times, May 22, 2019. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tough-act-to-follow-young-maestro-leads-israel-philharmonic/ 

Shanna Fuld, “Cuisine to Die for, Tel Aviv Combines Food Fair with Eurovision Events,” Jerusalem Post, May 17, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Cuisine-to-die-for-Tel-Aviv-combines-food-fair-with-Eurovision-events-589968 

Manfred Gerstenfeld, “Anti-Semitic Cartoons in the Anti-Israel Media,” BESA Center, May 24, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/antisemitic-cartoons-media/

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen , “The Meaning of ‘Mamlachtiut,’” BESA Center, May 26, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/mamlachtiut/ 

Tamar Hermann and Or Anabi, “How Jewish Israelis Feel Towards Non-Jews and the Current Conversion Process – Shavuot Survey,” Israel Democracy Institute, June 4, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/26926

Efraim Inbar, “No reason to fear PA economic collapse,” Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/No-reason-to-fear-PA-economic-collapse-588565

ISRAEL21c Staff, “Israel, US science academies sign cooperation agreement,” Isreal21c, May 7, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/israel-us-science-academies-sign-cooperation-agreement/

Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky, “A Memo to Jared,” BESA Center, May 12, 2019.  https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/jared-kushner-palestinians-policy/

Debra Kamin, “Israel’s Best-Kept Secret: This Food City on the Mediterranean,” Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2019. https://www.wsj.com/articles/israels-best-kept-secret-this-food-city-on-the-mediterranean-11557850111

Yaakov Katz, “Israel Destroyed Syria’s Nuclear Potential. What Would The World Look Like Now If They Hadn’t?” Newsweek, May 26, 2019. https://www.newsweek.com/2019/06/07/israel-destroyed-syria-nuclear-reactor-1433940.html

Jared Kushner and Robert Satloff, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Middle East Peace Effort: A Conversation With Jared Kushner,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 2, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/inside-the-trump-administrations-middle-east-peace-effort-a-conversation-wi

Yaakov Lappin, “Egypt and Iran Vie for Influence in Gaza,” BESA Center, May 7, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/egypt-iran-influence-gaza/

David Makovsky, “Israel’s Election Redo: Implications for the Trump Peace Plan,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 31, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-election-redo-implications-for-the-trump-peace-plan

Orna Mizrahi and Yoram Schweitzer, “Does Hezbollah Want a War with Israel Now?” INSS, May 23, 2019 https://www.inss.org.il/publication/hezbollah-want-war-israel-now/?offset=2&posts=2187

Roisin O’Connor, “Israeli heavy metal band Orphaned Land: ‘The boycott is a great excuse for antisemites to jump on board,'” IndependentUK,May 18, 2019. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/orphaned-land-band-israel-palestine-boycott-eurovision-tel-aviv-music-a8919746.html

Arik Rudnitzky, “Arab Voting in the 21st Knesset Elections,” Moshe Dayan Center, May 20, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/arab-voting-21st-knesset-elections

Paul Salem, “Thinking Arab Futures Drivers, scenarios, and strategic choices for an improved Arab World,” The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, May 2019. https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/thinking-arab-futures/

Robert Satloff, “Jared Kushner’s Peace Plan Would Be a Disaster,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 10, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/jared-kushners-peace-plan-would-be-a-disaster

Jonathan Schanzer, “The Gaza Conundrum: Israel has many options, none good,” Commentary, May 2019. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-gaza-conundrum/

Pnina Shavit Baruch, “The Proposed Changes to Judicial Oversight of Government Powers: Justified Measures or an Erosion of Democracy?” INSS, May 19, 2019.  https://www.inss.org.il/publication/proposed-changes-judicial-oversight-government-powers-justified-measures-erosion-democracy/?offset=5&posts=2187

Joel Singer, “Trump’s Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty in the Golan Heights and Netanyahu’s Promise to Annex the Jewish Settlements in the West Bank – Poison Pills to Middle East Peace,” JoelSinger.com,May 19, 2019. https://www.joelsinger.org/trumps-recognition-of-israeli-sovereignty-in-the-golan-heights-and-netanyahus-promise-to-annex-the-jewish-settlements-in-the-west-bank-poison-pills-to-middle-east-peace/

Jonathan Spyer, “Iranian Missiles in the Iraqi Desert,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, May 20, 2019. https://jiss.org.il/en/spyer-iranian-missiles-in-the-iraqi-desert/

Jessica Steinberg, “This year’s Israel Festival dares audiences to challenge artistic boundaries,” Times of Israel, May 27, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/this-years-israel-festival-dares-audiences-to-challenge-artistic-boundaries/

Ryan Torok, “Israeli Culture, Food and Music Celebrated at Israel Festival,” Jewish Journal, May 15, 2019. https://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/community/298648/israeli-culture-food-and-music-at-celebrate-israel-festival/

Eyal Tsir Cohen, “What we can learn from yet another round of conflict in Gaza,” Brookings Institute, May 16, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/05/16/what-we-can-learn-from-yet-another-round-of-conflict-in-gaza/

Amos Yadlin, “Paying for calm on the Gaza front, cannot be our policy,” Ynet News, May 11, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5506434,00.html

Ben-Dror Yemini, “Liberman is blackmailing Netanyahu for the future of Israel,” Ynet News, May 28, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5516775,00.html

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Emory University and Center for Israel Education
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Said Affassi, “First Arab Cultural Center to open in Israel’s largest Bedouin city,” I24News, April 26, 2019. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/1556210665-the-first-arab-cultural-center-to-open-in-israel-s-largest-bedouin-city

Harriet Agnew and Mehul Srivastava, “Israel looks to ultraorthodox to fill tech skills shortage,” Financial Times, April 7, 2019. https://www.ft.com/content/dae642aa-5601-11e9-a3db-1fe89bedc16e

Muriel Asseburg, “The Deal of the Century for Israel-Palestine,” Stiftung fur Wissenschaft und Politik, April 20, 2019.  https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/the-deal-of-the-century-for-israel-palestine/

Julia Bainbridge, “Israeli restaurants, however they’re defined, arrive in Atlanta,” Atlanta Magazine, April 25, 2019. https://www.atlantamagazine.com/dining-news/israeli-restaurants-however-theyre-defined-arrive-in-atlanta/

Naama Barak, “Tel Aviv culinary platform plates up emerging chefs,” Israel21c, April 21, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/tel-aviv-culinary-platform-plates-up-emerging-chefs/

Yossi Beilin, “After Years of undermining judiciary, Netanyahu needs its help,” Al-Monitor, April 29, 2019. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/04/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-justice-minister-coalition-court.html

Raphael G. Bouchik-Chen, “Trump’s Foreign Policy is Not Chaotic,” Begin-Sadat Center, April 25, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/trump-foreign-policy-chaotic/

Rachel Brenner, “Understanding Israeli Business Culture,” Times of Israel, April 30, 2019. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/understanding-israeli-business-culture/

William Cubbison, “What Do Israelis Think About the Golan Heights?” Israel Democracy Institute, March 31, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/26456

Meir Elran, Carmit Padan, “Long-Range Rocket Fire on Israel’s Depth: Lessons for Homefront Defense,” INSS, April8, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/long-range-rocket-fire-israels-depth-lessons-homefront-defense/?offset=5&posts=1165&type=399

Shai Feldman and Khalil Shikaki, “Trump’s Peace Plan: Engagement or Swift Rejection,” Middle East Brief, April 2019. https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/404004211

Alex Fishman, “Israel should prepare for the day China will rule the Middle East,” Ynet News, April 30, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5501134,00.html

Ambassador Avi Gil, “The Evolving World Order: Implications for Israel and the Jewish People,” Jewish people Policy Institute, April 16, 2019. http://jppi.org.il/new/en/article/evolovingworldorder/#.XMhJvy-ZNTZ

Nimrod Goren and Merav Kahana-Dagan, “The Israeli Election Results and Israel’s Foreign Policy,” MITVIM, April 2019. http://mitvim.org.il/images/The_Israeli_elections_results_and_Israels_foreign_policy_-_April_2019.pdf

Michael Gurfinkiel, “Winner in Israel Turns Out to Be New Voting Law,” New York Sun, April 14, 2019. https://www.nysun.com/foreign/winner-in-israel-turns-out-to-be-new-voting-law/90646/ 

Richard N. Haass, “The Structure of a Diplomatic Revolution,” Project Syndicate, April 18, 2019. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/middle-east-israel-diplomatic-paradigm-shift-by-richard-n-haass-2019-04

Gershon HaCohen, “The West Bank’s Area C: Israel’s Eastern Line of Defense,” Begin-Sadat Center, April 19, 2019. https://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/west-bank-area-c-israel/

Pinhas Inbari, “The Palestinian Authority’s New Prime Minister, Muhammed Shtayyeh,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 16, 2019. http://jcpa.org/the-palestinian-authoritys-new-prime-minister-muhammed-shtayyeh/

Ofer Kenig, “Farewell Elections, Hello Government,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 10, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/26510

Abigail Klein Leichman, “The edgy creator gallery in a Jerusalem back alley,” Israel21c, April 29, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/the-edgy-creator-gallery-in-a-jerusalem-back-alley/

Ivan Levingston, “Bank of Israel Cuts Growth Forecast, Holds Rates Before Election,” Bloomberg, April 8, 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-08/bank-of-israel-holds-rates-steady-day-before-national-elections

Martin Kramer, Alberto Fernandez, Simon Henderson, and others, “Sudden Succession Essay Series,” The Washington institute for Near East Policy, April 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/sudden-succession-essay-series 

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, “Takin’ it to the Streets in Algeria and Morocco,” The American Interest, April 25, 2019. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/04/25/takin-it-to-the-streets-in-algeria-and-morocco/

Michael Milstein, “The Economic Crisis in the Palestinian Authority: Time for a Strategic Alert,” INSS, April 30, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/economic-crisis-palestinian-authority-time-strategic-alert/?offset=0&posts=1165&type=399

Abdel-Monheim Said, “The new great debate (autocracies vs liberal democracies),” al-Ahram Weekly, April 2019. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/26926.aspx

Itamar Radai, “‘On the Deck of the Titanic:’ Arab Politics in Israel and the 2019 Elections,” Moshe Dayan Center, April 17, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/deck-titanic-arab-politics-israel-and-2019-elections

Max Reider, “‘The Passenger’ [Opera] Makes its Israel Debut,” Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/The-Passenger-makes-its-Israel-debut-588220 

Paul Rivlin, “The Oil Market Swings: Shale and Geo-politics,” Moshe Dayan Center, April 30, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/oil-market-swings-shale-and-geo-politics

Liana Saperstein, “Eden Dersso Is the Changing Face of Tel Aviv’s Hip-Hop Scene,” Vogue, April 2, 2019. https://www.vogue.com/vogueworld/article/eden-dersso-israeli-ethiopian-rapper-tel-aviv

Robert Satloff, “Trump Must Not Let Jared Kushner’s Peace Plan See the Light of Day,” The Washington institute for Near East Policy, April 10, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/trump-must-not-let-jared-kushners-peace-plan-see-the-light-of-day

Ken Silverstein, “Israel’s Natural Gas Discoveries Are Bridging Political Divides and Are Forging Economic Ties,” Forbes, April 18, 2019. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2019/04/18/israels-natural-gas-discoveries-are-bridging-political-divides-and-are-forging-economic-ties/#1b8dbd9615aa

Klara Strube, “Rare Israeli-Cultivated Desert Truffles ‘Worth More Than Uranium’ May Soon Be Widely Available,” No Camels, April 21, 2019. https://nocamels.com/2019/04/rare-israel-cultivate-desert-truffles-worth-more-than-uranium/

George N. Tzogopoulos, “A New EastMed Friendship, with US Support,” Begin-Sadat Center, April 10, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/eastmed-pipeline-us-support/

TOI Staff, “Poll: Two-thirds of Israeli Jews support unity government without Haredi parties,” Times of Israel, April 23, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-two-thirds-of-israelis-support-unity-government-without-haredi-parties/

Avi Waksman, “Israelis’ Economic Confidence Growing, Government Survey Finds,” Haaretz, April 11, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-israelis-economic-confidence-growing-government-survey-finds-1.7109325

Ehud Yairi, “Israel’s Armistice with Hamas, Growing Tensions with Abbas,” The Washington institute for Near East Policy, April 24, 2019.  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-armistice-with-hamas-growing-tensions-with-abbas

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Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu

Ghaith Al-Omari, “Oslo’s Mangled Legacy,” The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Winter 2019. https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/oslos-mangled-legacy/

Inball Arieli, “How chaos drives success, from the IDF to Tesla,” Israel21c, March 3, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/how-chaos-drives-success-from-the-idf-to-tesla/

Amb. Allan Baker, “U.S. Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty over the Golan Heights: Some Legal Observations,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 31, 2019. http://jcpa.org/article/u-s-recognition-of-israeli-sovereignty-over-the-golan-heights-march-2019-some-legal-observations/

Louis René Beres, “Beyond Realpolitik: Israel’s Strategic Imperatives,” BESA Center, March 31, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-strategic-imperatives/

Daniel Byman, “Israel’s Four Fronts,” Global Politics and Strategy, March 19, 2019. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2019.1589094?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Mohamed Chtatou, “What Arab Monarchies Should Take Away from their Neighbors’ Instability,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 22, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/what-arab-monarchies-should-take-away-from-their-neighbors-instability

William Cubbison, “What Do Israelis think About the Golan Heights?” Israel Democracy Institute, March 31, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/26456

Barry Davis, “From Electro to Acoustic [Israeli Music],” Jerusalem Post, March 28, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/From-electro-to-acoustic-584985

Dan Diker (Ed.), “Defeating Denormalization: Shared Palestinian and Israeli Perspectives on a New Path to Peace,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 24, 2019. http://jcpa.org/defeating-denormalization/

Economic Times Bureau, “From India to Israel: 3 grand festivals of food, music and fervor you must attend,” Economic Times, March 28, 2019. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/travel/from-india-to-israel-3-grand-festivals-of-food-music-and-fervour-you-must-attend/articleshow/68593597.cms

Ahmed Eleiba, “Balance of Power in the Middle East (Iran, Syria, Iraq),” Al-Ahram Weekly, March 28-April 3, 2019. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/26808.aspx

Daniel Estrin, “Thousands of Israelis Now Call Berlin Home and Make Their Cultural Mark,” NPR, March 7, 2019. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/700356426/thousands-of-israelis-now-call-berlin-home-and-make-their-cultural-mark

Shmuel Even and Sason Hadad, “Is the IDF Ready for War?” INSS, March 25, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/idf-ready-war/?offset=3&posts=1156&type=399

Robert Farley, “Israel’s Air Force Is One of the Best in World For a Reason,” National Interest, March 22, 2019. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/israels-air-force-one-best-world-reason-48612

Eitan Fischberger, “A (Euro)vision for the Future,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 19, 2019. http://jcpa.org/article/a-eurovision-for-the-future/

Manfred Gerstenfeld, “The EU Cannot Fight Antisemitism Effectively,” BESA Center, March 21, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/european-union-antisemitism/

A.J. Goldman, “A Golden Bear [Film Award] for Israel,” Tablet, February 21, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/film/280801/berlinale-nadav-lapid-israel

Dore Gold, “Testimony: Recognizing Israeli Sovereignty on the Golan Heights,” US House of Representatives, July 17, 2018. http://jcpa.org/testimony-recognizing-israeli-sovereignty-on-the-golan-heights/

Toby Greene, “With Gantz, has Israel’s Centre found its feet?” Fathom Journal, March 2019. http://fathomjournal.org/with-gantz-has-israels-centre-found-its-feet/

Eitan Halon, “Bank warns: Economic slowdown without ultra-Orthodox, Arab integration,” Jerusalem Post, March 28, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Bank-warns-Economic-slowdown-without-ultra-Orthodox-Arab-integration-585007

Ephraim Inbar, “What Happens after the “Deal of the Century” is Tabled?” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, March 6, 2019. https://jiss.org.il/en/inbar-what-happens-after-the-deal-of-the-century-is-tabled/

Yusri Khaizran, “Civil Trends in Israel’s Arab Society in Light of the “Arab Spring,” Moshe Dayan Center, March 14, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/civil-trends-israels-arab-society-light-arab-spring

Abigail Klein Leichman, “United Hatzalah opens new emergency response unit in Colombia,” Israel21c, March 20, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/united-hatzalah-opens-new-emergency-response-unit-in-colombia/

Amb. (Ret.) Dr. Haim Koren, “Israel and Egypt: Strategic Partnership, Civil Remoteness?” MITVIM, March 2019. http://www.mitvim.org.il/images/Haim_Koren_-_Israel-Egypt_-_Strategic_cooperation_and_civil_remoteness_-_March_2019.pdf

Yaakov Lappin, “Hamas Is Willing to Risk War to Avoid Economic Collapse,” BESA Center, March 10, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/hamas-is-willing-to-risk-war-to-avoid-economic-collapse/ 

Ivan Levingston, “Even Israel Is Getting the Trump Treatment on Trade,” Fortune, March 9, 2019. http://fortune.com/2019/03/09/israel-trump-trade/

Luca Miehe and Stephan Roll, “Three Scenarios for the Development of the Sisi Regime in Egypt,” SWP Berlin, March 2019. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/sisi-regime-in-egypt-three-scenarios-for-its-development/

Michael Milshtein, “A Middle Eastern “Apocalypse Now:” The Islamic State (IS) as a Social and Cultural Phenomenon,” Moshe Dayan Center, March 6, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/middle-eastern-apocalypse-now-islamic-state-social-and-cultural-phenomenon?fbclid=IwAR33s1-HDi3rAsSU5EoXfCH0quSompWiQyoPChAeONLIKrkUbKAw_DC-8Fs

Hassan Mneimneh, “Another Course Correction Needed: Towards a Better Reception of U.S. Positions in the Middle East,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 25, 2019.  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/another-course-correction-needed-towards-a-better-reception-of-us-positions

Nicu Popescu and Stanislav Secrieru, “Russia’s return to the Middle East Building sandcastles?” Chaillot Paper, July 2018. https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/CP_146.pdf

Mike Richar, “Exploring Israeli Cuisine Through 5 Quintessential Foods,” The Manual, March 4, 2019. https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/quintessential-israeli-cuisine-dishes/

Paul Rivlin, “China: Economy, Energy and the Middle East,” Moshe Dayan Center, March 28, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/china-economy-energy-and-middle-east

Scott Roxborough, “Why the world is watching Israeli TV series,” Deutsche Welle, March 25, 2019. https://www.dw.com/en/why-the-world-is-watching-israeli-tv-series/a-48049546

Elyakim Rubenstein, “The Players of Camp David,” The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Winter 2019. https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/the-players-of-camp-david/ 

Alexander Jacob Shapiro, “Examining Newly-Formed Mixed Arab-Jewish Municipal Coalitions,” Moshe Dayan Center, March 14, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/examining-newly-formed-mixed-arab-jewish-municipal-coalitions

Natan Sachs, “The end is nigh for Netanyahu,” Brookings Institute, March 4, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/03/04/the-end-is-nigh-for-netanyahu/

Assaf Shapira, “Alliance of Interests,” Israel Democracy Institute, March 10, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/26138

Pnina Sharvit Baruch, “The Violent Events along the Gaza-Israel Border: The Report of the Commission of Inquiry of the Human Rights Council,” INSS, March 12, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/violent-events-along-gaza-israel-border-report-commission-inquiry-human-rights-council/?offset=8&posts=1156&type=399

Jagdish N. Singh, “Erdoğan’s Dangerous Ambitions Threaten India and Beyond,” BESA Center, March 27, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/erdogan-turkey-india/ 

Shoshana Solomon, “Clouds gather as Israel emerges from economic ‘golden decade,’” Times of Israel, March 14, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/clouds-gather-as-israel-emerges-from-economys-golden-decade/

Shoshana Solomon, “Japanese investment in Israel blossoms as firms scout for tech,” Times of Israel, April 1, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/japanese-investment-in-israel-blossoms-as-firms-scout-for-tech/   

Amy Spiro, “Israeli DJs React to Renewed Michael Jackson Allegations,” Jerusalem Post, March 10, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-DJs-react-to-renewed-Michael-Jackson-allegations-582992

Jonathan Spyer, “Armed Opposition Groups in Iran,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, March 12, 2019. https://jiss.org.il/en/spyer-armed-opposition-groups-in-iran/

Gil Stein, “Why this Israeli band of disabled musicians said no to Eurovision,” Jewish Weekly, March 13, 2019. https://www.jweekly.com/2019/03/13/why-this-israeli-band-of-disabled-musicians-said-no-to-eurovision/

Ken Stein, “The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty at 40: Lessons Learned and Impacts Sustained,” Center for Israel Education, March 27, 2019. https://israeled.org/the-egyptian-israeli-peace-treaty-at-40-lessons-learned-and-impacts-sustained/

Todd Stein, “Rep. Omar’s comments are worse than you think,” Times of Israel, March 11, 2019. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/rep-omars-comments-are-worse-than-you-think/

Bret Stephens, “Ilhan Omar Knows Exactly What She Is Doing,” New York Times, March 7, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/opinion/ilhan-omar-anti-semitism.html

Shibley Telhami, “Will Israel’s Palestinian Arab citizens turn out to vote?” Brookings Institute, March 25, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/03/25/will-israels-palestinian-arab-citizens-turn-out-to-vote/

Yohanan Tzoreff, “Is the PLO Still the “Sole Representative of the Palestinian People?” INSS, March 18, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/plo-still-sole-representative-palestinian-people/

Adv. Alona Vinograd, “Behind Every Man Stands… Another Man,” Israel Democracy Institute, March 10, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/26137

Ofra Winter and Udi Dekel, “Egypt and Israel: From Peace between Leaders and Armies to Peace between Peoples,” INSS, March 27, 2109.  https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/No.-1153.pdf

Yad Izhak Ben-Tzvi Insititute, “Between Jerusalem and Cairo: 40 Years to the Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement,” INSS, March 14, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/event/jerusalem-cairo-40-years-israel-egypt-peace-agreement/

Amos Yadlin, Zvi Magen, “The Netanyahu-Putin Meeting: What was Agreed, and What are Russia’s Intentions?” INSS, March 18, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/netanyahu-putin-meeting-agreed-russias-intentions/?offset=6&posts=1156&type=399

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Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu

Michael Barak, “Civil War? The rift between Fatah and Hamas, as seen on social media,” Moshe Dayan Center, February 7, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/civil-war-rift-between-fatah-and-hamas-seen-social-media

Naama Barak, “Tel Aviv’s most unlikely nightlife hot spot,” Israel21c, February 19, 2019.  https://www.israel21c.org/tel-avivs-most-unlikely-nightlife-hot-spot/

Amiram Barkat, “Israel’s economic skies darken,” Globes, January 1, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israels-economic-skies-darken-1001267201

Amiram Barakat, “Jerusalem and Tel Aviv both have negative migration,” Globes, February 18, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-jerusalem-and-tel-aviv-both-have-negative-migration-1001273709

BICOM, “Israeli Elections: Everything you need to know,” British Israel Communications and Research Center, February 15th, 2019. www.bicom.org.uk/analysis/israeli-elections-everything-you-want-and-need-to-know/

BICOM, “The Netanyahu investigations: What next after the Attorney General’s announcement?” February 2019. file:///C:/Users/kstein/Downloads/Netanyahu-Investigations-paper%20(1).pdf

Edwin Black, “BDS Prosecution Efforts at UCLA and UCI,” BESA Center, February 5, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/bds-prosecution-university-california/ 

Alan Boyle, “‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites,” Geek Wire, February 21, 2019. https://www.geekwire.com/2019/spacex-launches-israeli-lunar-lander-along-high-flying-satellites/

Itai Brun, Sarah J. Feuer, Itay Haiminis, “Eight Years after the Upheaval: Alternative Approaches to Understanding the Current Middle East,” INSS, February 26, 2019. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/eight-years-upheaval-alternative-approaches-understanding-current-middle-east/?offset=0&posts=1143&type=399

Center for Israel Education, “How Israel Votes Whiteboard Video,” Center for Israel Education, February 28, 2019. https://israeled.org/how-israel-votes/

Udi Dekel, “Obstacles to Israel’s Strategic Objectives: Main Insights from the INSS 12th Annual International Conference,” INSS, February 12, 2019.  http://www.inss.org.il/publication/obstacles-israels-strategic-objectives-main-insights-inss-12th-annual-international-conference/?offset=3&posts=1140&type=399 

Shira Feder, “Mike Solomonov’s New Venture Shows Israeli Food Is More Than Falafel and Hummus,” Forward, February 7, 2019. https://forward.com/food/418860/mike-solomonovs-new-venture-shows-israeli-food-is-more-than-falafel-and/

Brandon Friedman, “The Crisis in Palestinian Politics: From National Consensus to National (Dis)Unity,” Moshe Dayan Center, February 6, 2019. https://dayan.org/content/crisis-palestinian-politics-national-consensus-national-disunity

Sophie Friedman, “L’Chaim: exploring Israel’s burgeoning wine culture,” The Bowdoin Orient, February 22, 2019. https://bowdoinorient.com/2019/02/22/lchaim-exploring-israels-burgeoning-wine-culture/

Jennifer Greenberg, “Why Women are Rocking Tel Aviv’s Electronic Music Scene,” Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Why-women-are-rocking-Tel-Avivs-electronic-music-scene-582013

Tsilla Hershco, “The “Yellow Vests” in France: Social Protest, Violence, and Antisemitism,” BESA Center, February 28, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/yellow-vests-france-antisemitism/

Nick Ismail, “Israel’s tech start-up scene: the heartbeat of the economy,” Information Age, February 19, 2019. https://www.information-age.com/israels-tech-start-up-scene-123479255/

Israel Democracy Institute, “Investigation – A Guide for the Perplexed,” Israel Democracy Institute (explains various possibilities about the indictments presented to PM Netanyahu and what next), February 14, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/25944

Jerusalem Center – Iran Desk, “Iran’s President Rejects Foreign Minister Zarif’s Resignation,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 27, 2019. http://jcpa.org/irans-president-rejects-foreign-minister-zarifs-resignation/

Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky, “Americans’ Two Conceptions of Israel,” BESA Center, February 21, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/americans-conceptions-israel/

Dan Kaken, “Israel agrees to reopen economic agreements with Palestinians,” Globes, February 7, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-agrees-to-reopen-economic-agreements-with-palestinians-1001272404

Israel Kasnett, “Israelis and Palestinians unite to create economic viability,” Jewish News Syndicate, February 28, 2019. https://www.jns.org/israelis-and-palestinians-join-together-to-create-economic-viability/

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli wine, art and music provides ‘cultural foreplay,’” Israel21c, February 3, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-wine-art-and-music-provides-cultural-foreplay/

Martin Kramer, Norman Stillman, Jacob Lassner, “The Enduring Legacy of Professor Bernard Lewis,” ASMEA, November 2018. https://vimeo.com/314561631

Ori J. Lenkinski, “Israel Museum’s Dance: Dancing in the Dark,” Jerusalem Post, February 19, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-Museums-Dance-Dancing-in-the-dark-572302

Yaakov Lapid, “Can Israel Defeat Hamas Without Toppling It?” BESA Center, February 21, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-defeat-hamas/

Ivan Levingston and Michael Arnold, “Israel’s Economy Beats Expectations on Consumer Spending,” Bloomberg, February 17, 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-17/israel-s-economy-grows-3-1-in-4th-quarter-as-consumption-surges

Elior Levy, “Gaza suffers from brain drain as young professionals look for better life,” Y-Net, Jan 18, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5446415,00.html

Lacie Levy, “Israel Is Innovating Its Way To Success,” Business Facilities, February 2019. https://businessfacilities.com/2019/02/israel-innovating-way-success/

David Makovsky, “Dueling Narratives in Israel’s Election Campaign,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 22, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/dueling-narratives-in-israels-election-campaign

David Makovsky, “Israel’s Battle of the ‘Benjamins’: Netanyahu vs. Gantz,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 11, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-battle-of-the-benjamins-netanyahu-vs.-gantz

Elhanan Miller, “The Enigmatic Benny Gantz,” Tablet Magazine, February 11, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/280284/the-enigmatic-benny-gantz

Rachel Neiman, “Israel National Library launches free Israeli music app,” Israel21c, February 11, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/israel-national-library-launches-free-israeli-music-app/

Volker Perthes, “The EU and its members will have to come up with their own policy for the new reality in Syria,” The Security Times, February 2019. www.the-security-times.com/eu-members-will-come-policy-new-reality-syria/

Claire Polansky, “How Exporting Cannabis Will Boost Israel’s Economy,” Times of Israel, February 10, 2019. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-exporting-cannabis-will-boost-israels-economy/

Adi Pick, “Israel and Japan in Talks to Enter a Free Trade Agreement,” Calcaslist, January 15, 2019. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3754321,00.html

Sever Plocker, “Why do Israelis have a soft spot for generals as politicians?” Ynet News, February 7, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5459654,00.html

Haviv Rettig Gur, “Netanyahu and the Kahanists: A moral compromise that may ruin his legacy,” Times of Israel, February 25, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-and-the-kahanists-a-moral-compromise-that-may-ruin-his-legacy/

Paul Rivlin, “Tunisia 2019: The Success and Failures of the Arab Spring,” Moshe Dayan Center, February 28, 2019. https://dayan.org/journal/iqtisadi-middle-east-economy

Itamar Sharon, “Danube days: Hungary launches culture year in Israel with song and dance,” Times of Israel, February 20, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/danube-days-hungary-launches-culture-year-in-israel-with-song-and-dance/

Eldad Shavit, “President Trump versus his Administration,” INSS Insight,February 12, 2019, http://www.inss.org.il/publication/?ptype=399

Nadav Shragai, Lenny Ben-David, “New Waqf Council Managing the Temple Mount,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 28, 2019. http://jcpa.org/new-waqf-council-managing-the-temple-mount/

Amy Spiro, “Band’s Visit to End Its Broadway Run,” Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Bands-Visit-to-end-its-Broadway-run-579730

Jonathan Spyer, “The Rise of Iraq’s Shia Militias: An Emergent Threat to Israel,” The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, February 20, 2019. https://jiss.org.il/en/spyer-berman-the-rise-of-iraqs-shia-militias-and-their-threat-to-israel/

Itay Stern, “Israeli Director’s Film Wins Top Prize at Berlin Festival,” Haaretz, February 16, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/.premium-israeli-director-s-film-wins-top-prize-at-berlin-festival-1.6939066

Ofir Winter, Gallia Lindenstrauss, “Beyond Energy: The Significance of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum,” INSS, February 3, 2019. www.inss.org.il/publication/beyond-energy-significance-eastern-mediterranean-gas-forum/?offset=9&posts=1143&type=399

Raz Zimmt, “The Khamenei Roadmap on the 40th Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution,” INSS, February 20, 2019. www.inss.org.il/publication/khamenei-roadmap-40th-anniversary-islamic-revolution/?offset=3&posts=1143&type=399

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

Amb. (Ret.) Barukh Binah, “US Policies towards Israel and the Middle East,” The Israel Institute for Regional Foreign Relations, January 2019. http://mitvim.org.il/images/US_Policies_towards_Israel_and_the_Middle_East_-_December_2018.pdf

Anat Ben Haim and Udi Dekel, “Israel’s Dilemma over Syrian Reconstruction,” INSS, January 27, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/israels-dilemma-syrian-reconstruction/?offset=0&posts=1133&type=399

Nir Boms and Stephane Cohen, “Iran and the New State of Play in Southwest Syria,” Moshe Dayan Center, January 22, 2019.  https://dayan.org/content/iran-and-new-state-play-southwest-syria

Alan Boyle, “Israeli lunar lander passes tests in preparation for SpaceX launch to the moon,” Geek Wire, January 30, 2019. https://www.geekwire.com/2019/israeli-lunar-lander-passes-tests-preparation-spacex-launch-moon/

Jeffrey Feltman, Samantha Gross, Martin Indyk, Kemal Kirişci, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, Natan Sachs, Amanda Sloat, Angela Stent, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Bruce Jones, “The new geopolitics of the Middle East: America’s role in a changing region,” Brookings Institute, January 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-new-geopolitics-of-the-middle-east-americas-role-in-a-changing-region/

Seth J. Frantzman, “Israeli Strikes in Syria Reveal New Battlefield for Post-civil War Era,” Jerusalem Post, January 21, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-strikes-in-Syria-reveal-new-battlefield-for-post-civil-war-era-578148

Matti Friedman, “There Is No ‘Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,’” New York Times, January 16, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/opinion/israeli-palestinian-conflict-matti-friedman.html

Manfred Gerstenfeld, “Angela Merkel’s Legacy and the Jews,” BESA Center, January 3, 2019. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/angela-merkel-jews/

Cassandra Gomes-Hochberg, “In the Heart of the Negev, Where Musicians and Hikers Meet,”Jerusalem Post, January 22, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/In-the-heart-of-the-Negev-where-musicians-and-hikers-meet-578288

Eytan Halon, “Israel Gives Green Light to Medical Cannabis Exports,” Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-gives-green-light-to-medical-cannabis-exports-578815

Ari Kalker, “Is Zionism Dead?” Jerusalem Post, January 26, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Is-Zionism-dead-578398

Matthew Kalman, “Israel’s “startup nation” is under threat from the tech giants that nurtured it,” MIT Technology Review, January 8, 2019. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612717/israels-startup-nation-is-under-threat-from-the-tech-giants-that-nurtured-it/

Knesset, ” Elections for the Knesset,” The Knesset, January 2019. https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/mk/pages/elections.aspx

Daniel Kurtzer, “Israeli politics: A guide to the perplexed,” New York Daily News, January 22, 2019. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-israeli-politics-a-guide-to-the-perplexed-20190122-story.html

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli jazz musician wins international piano competition,” Israel21c, January 8, 2019. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-jazz-musician-wins-international-piano-competition/

David Makovsky and Dennis Ross, “We need to talk about Iran and Russia in this Israeli election,” Ynet News, January 2, 2019. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5439738,00.html

Haim Malka, “Turbulence Ahead The North African Maghreb in 2019,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 2019. https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/190115_HMalka_commentary_v3.pdf

Judy Maltz, “Nonreligious Israeli Teachers Are Suddenly in High Demand in America,” Haaretz, January 23, 2019. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-nonreligious-israeli-teachers-are-suddenly-in-high-demand-in-america-1.6869217

Yehuda Mersky, “The End of the World that 1948 Made,” Tablet Magazine, January 2, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/277870/the-end-of-the-world-made-in-1948

Emmanuel Navon, “The New Emerging Energy Hub in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, January 18, 2019. https://jiss.org.il/en/navon-the-new-emerging-energy-hub-in-the-eastern-mediterranean/

Margaux Nijkerk, “France’s Role in Syrian Reconstruction, and the Implications for Israel,” INSS, Winter 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nijkerk.pdf

Daniel Pipes, “Europe’s Jews vs Israel,” Israel Hayom, February 2, 2019. www.israelhayom.com/opinions/europes-jews-vs-israel/

Gideon Rahat, “Why Are There so Many Political Parties, and Why Does This Fragmentation Obstruct Governance?” Israel Democracy Institute, January 27, 2019. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/25792 

Rachel Ringler, “The Grand Canvases of Nirit Takele’s Ethiopian-Israeli Experience,” Tablet, January 15, 2019. https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/278904/the-grand-canvases-of-nirit-takeles-ethiopian-israeli-experience

Natan Sachs, “Iran’s revolution, 40 years on: Israel’s reverse periphery doctrine,” Brookings Institute, January 24, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/01/24/irans-revolution-40-years-on-israels-reverse-periphery-doctrine/

Yoram Schweitzer, Aviad Mendelboim and Adi Gozlan, “Suicide Attacks in 2018: Fewer Attacks and Victims in Fewer Countries,” INSS, January 7, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/suicide-attacks-2018-fewer-attacks-victims-fewer-countries/?offset=6&posts=1133&type=399

Meir Shemuel, “Israel and Iran Exchange Blows in Syria: A View From Israel,” Atlantic Council, January 25, 3019. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/israel-and-iran-exchange-blows-in-syria-a-view-from-israel

Michael Singh, “Beijing’s Curious Silence on the Syria Withdrawal,” Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2019. https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijings-curious-silence-on-the-syria-withdrawal-11546908726

Shlomo Slonim, “The Birth of Israel: U.S. Envoy McDonald’s Tireless Efforts,” Middle East Forum, Winter 2019. https://www.meforum.org/7264/the-birth-of-israel-us-envoy-mcdonald-tireless

Shoshana Solomon, “Israeli tech exits decline as ecosystem matures, global uncertainty weighs,” Times of Israel, December 30, 2019. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-exits-decline-as-ecosystem-matures-global-uncertainty-weighs/

Amy Spiro, “Israeli Director’s Shia Labeouf Biopic Wows Sundance,” Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-directors-Shia-LaBeouf-biopic-wows-Sundance-578822

Jiri Valenta and Leni Friedman Valenta, “The Birth of Israel: Prague’s Crucial Role,” Middle East Forum, Winter 2019. https://www.meforum.org/7263/the-birth-of-israel-prague-crucial-role

Washington Institute Staff, “Sending the Right Message in Cairo: Advice for Secretary Pompeo,” January 7, 2019. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/sending-the-right-message-in-cairo-advice-for-secretary-pompeo

Amos Yadlin, “The Strategic Challenges facing Israel,” Britain Israel Communication and Research Centre, January 2019. http://www.bicom.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Yadlin-Jan-2019-1.pdf

Amos Yadlin, Itai Brun, Udi Dekel, “The Ten Leading Challenges Facing the New IDF Chief of Staff,” INSS, January 15, 2019. https://www.inss.org.il/publication/ten-leading-challenges-facing-new-chief-staff/?offset=3&posts=1133&type=399

Abraham B. Yehoshua, “Amos Oz, my brother, my teacher,” Ynet News, January, 1, 2019.  https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5437046,00.html

Yasmin Yablanko, “Japan business chief: We’re building Society 5.0 with Israeli tech,” Globes, January 22, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-japan-business-chief-were-building-society-50-with-israeli-tech-1001269922

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

Major General (res.) Yaacov Amidror, “The Withdrawal of the US from Syria in Broad Perspective,” JISS, December 26, 2018. https://jiss.org.il/en/amidror-the-withdrawal-of-the-us-from-syria-in-broad-perspective/

Hady Amr, Ilan Goldenberg, Kevin Huggard, and Natan Sachs, “Ending Gaza’s perpetual crisis: A new U.S. approach,” Brookings Institute, December 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/research/ending-gazas-perpetual-crisis-a-new-u-s-approach/

Tony Badran, “The Curtain Is Falling on Bibi’s Lebanese Belly Dance,” Tablet, December 13, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/277051/netanyahu-lebanon-hezbollah

Dany Bahar, “Migrants and the Startup Nation: Addressing Israel’s Growing Demand for Skills by Increasing the Country’s Role in the Developing World,” Brookings Institute, December 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/FP_20181221_israel_developing_world1.pdf

Amb. (Ret.) Barukh Binah, “US Policies towards Israel and the Middle East,” MITVIM, December 2018. http://mitvim.org.il/images/US_Policies_towards_Israel_and_the_Middle_East_-_November_2018.pdf

Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Nick Cave: cultural boycott of Israel is ‘cowardly and shameful,'” The Guardian, December 11, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/11/nick-cave-cultural-boycott-israel-brian-eno 

Nicky Blackburn and Abigail Klein Leichman, “35 ways Israel inspired the world in 2018,” Israel21c, December 26, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/35-ways-israel-inspired-the-world-in-2018/

Brian Blum, “The 15 biggest acquisitions in Israeli history,” Israel21c, December 27, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/the-15-biggest-acquisitions-in-israeli-history/

Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, “Turkey at the Eastern Mediterranean Crossroads,” JISS, December 12, 2018. https://jiss.org.il/en/yanarocak-turkey-at-the-eastern-mediterranean-crossroads/

Mike Desimone, “Israel: New World Wines with a Bordeaux Connection,” Wine Enthusiast, December 2018. https://www.winemag.com/2018/10/04/israel-new-world-wines-bordeaux-connection/

Ofir Dror, “Israeli Edtech Companies Inspired by Recent China-Israel Deal,” Calcalist, December 9, 2018. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3751620,00.html

Joanna Dyduch, “The Visegrád Group’s Policy towards Israel: Common Values and Interests as a Catalyst for Cooperation,” SWP Berlin, December 2018. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/the-visegrad-groups-policy-towards-israel/

Alon Einhorn, “21.2% of Israeli Population Lives Below the Poverty Line – New Report,” Jerusalem Post, December 31, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/212-percent-of-Israeli-population-lives-below-the-poverty-line-new-report-575883

Brandon Friedman, “Saudi Arabia: A Future Interrupted,” Moshe Dayan Center, December 18, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/saudi-arabia-future-interrupted

Shuki Friedman, “Two Democracies for Two Peoples,” Israel Democracy Institute, December 12, 2018. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/25271

Caroline Glick, “Why Should Israelis Vote if their Vote is Meaningless?” Jerusalem Post, December 27, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Do-election-results-matter-in-Israel-575663

Shalom Goldman, “David Ben-Gurion Asks 51 Jewish Scholars: ‘Who Is a Jew?’ Tablet, November 30, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/275873/david-ben-gurion-who-is-a-jew   

Haaretz Staff, “Natalie Portman Eulogizes Amos Oz: ‘My Heart Is Broken,'” Haaretz, December 30, 2018. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/natalie-portman-eulogizes-amos-oz-my-heart-is-broken-1.6789649

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, “Lebanon’s Strategic Symbiosis,” BESA Center, December 10, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/lebanons-strategic-symbiosis/

Jessica Haflin, “Best cookbooks for Israeli food,” Israel21c, December 4, 2018.  https://www.israel21c.org/make-gift-giving-easy-with-these-12-tasty-cookbooks-from-israel/

Eytan Halon, “Israeli Food-tech Start-up Produces World’s First ‘cell-grown’ Steak,” Jerusalem Post, December 13, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-food-tech-start-up-produces-worlds-first-cell-grown-steak-574260

Prof. Tamar Hermann, Ella Heller, Or Anabi, Fadi Omar, “The Israeli Democracy Index 2018,” Israel Democracy Institute, December 2018. https://en.idi.org.il/publications/25031

Yaakov Katz, “Elections Will Be Greatest Test of Netanyahu’s Career,” Jerusalem Post, December 28, 2019. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editors-Notes-The-real-reason-Israel-is-going-to-elections-575664

Joshua Krasna, “Israel and the Gulf States: Some Things Change, Some Stay the Same,” JISS, November 29, 2018. https://jiss.org.il/en/krasna-israel-and-the-gulf-states-some-things-change-some-stay-the-same/

Anat Kurz, Kobi Michael, Gabi Siboni, “Six Days, Fifty Years: The June 1967 War and its Aftermath,” INSS, November 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/six-days-fifty-years/

Francis Lam, “Exploring the soul of Israeli food with chef Michael Solomonov,” The Splendid Table, December 28, 2018.  https://www.splendidtable.org/story/exploring-the-soul-of-israeli-food-with-chef-michael-solomonov

Kobi Michael and Udi Dekel, “The Escalation in the West Bank: The Need for a Change in Israeli Strategy and Policy,” INSS, December 18, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/escalation-west-bank-need-change-israeli-strategy-policy/

Fiamma Nirenstein, “Mission Impossible? Repairing the Ties between Europe and Israel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 2018. http://jcpa.org/mission-impossible-repairing-the-ties-between-europe-and-israel/

Emanuele Otteolenghi and Jose Luis Stein, “Trump Should Cut Hezbollah’s Lifeline in the Americas,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, December 13, 2018. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2018/12/13/trump-should-cut-hezbollahs-lifeline-in-the-americas/

Adi Pick, “Supporting Arab Entrepreneurs Is Vital for Israeli Economy, Says Innovation Authority Chief,” Calcalist, December 11, 2018.  https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3751844,00.html

Maxim Reider, “For the Love of [Classical] Music,” Jerusalem Post, December 19, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/For-the-love-of-music-574823

Arik Rudnitzky, “The 2018 Municipal Elections in Arab Localities: an Overview,” Moshe Dayan Center, December 10, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/2018-municipal-elections-arab-localities-overview

Eldad Shavit and Udi Dekel, “The United States Decision to Withdraw Forces from Syria: Significance for Israel,” INSS, December 24, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/united-states-decision-withdraw-forces-syria-significance-israel/

Jessica Steinberg, “In first, Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod performs in Morocco,” Times of Israel, December 26, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-andalusian-orchestra-ashdod-performs-in-morocco/

Dana Stroul and Soner Cagaptay, “As Washington Prepares to Withdraw from Syria, Turkey Is Set to Invade,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 19, 2018.  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/as-washington-prepares-to-withdraw-from-syria-turkey-is-set-to-invade

Times of Israel Staff, “New Bank of Israel governor installed amid economic turmoil,” Times of Israel, December 24, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-bank-of-israel-governor-installed-amid-economic-turmoil/

Vox Tablet, “Amos Oz Still Dreams of Life on the Kibbutz,” Tablet, September 23, 2013. https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/145655/amos-oz-interview

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

Hicham Alaoui “Failed Dream of political Islam,” LeMonde Diplomatique, November 2018. https://mondediplo.com/2018/11/02arab-world

Anadolu Agency, “Israeli saz player gives Jerusalem the sound of Turkey,” Hurriyet Daily News, November 30, 2018.  www.hurriyetdailynews.com/israeli-saz-player-gives-jerusalem-the-sound-of-turkey-139307

Irad Atzmon Schmayer, “Locust Schnitzel? Israeli High-tech Firms Cooking Up the Future’s Meat Alternatives,” Haaretz, November 30, 2018. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-locust-schnitzel-israeli-high-tech-firms-cooking-up-a-meatless-future-1.6701136

Mitchell Bard, “Eighty Years After Kristallnacht, the Murder of Jews Continues,” Algemeiner, November 2, 2018. https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/01/eighty-years-after-kristallnacht-the-murder-of-jews-continues/?utm_content=blog1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/

Dr. Mordechai Chaziza, “Chinese VP Visits Israel Innovation Conference,” BESA Center, November 5, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/china-wang-qishan-israel/

Barry Davis, “Israeli Jazz for the Asking,” Jerusalem Post, November 27, 2018.  https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-jazz-for-the-asking-572966

Edward P. Djerejian, Marwan Muasher, and six others, “Two States or One? Reappraising the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September 18, 2018. 43 pages, https://carnegieendowment.org/2018/09/18/two-states-or-one-reappraising-israeli-palestinian-impasse-pub-77269

Dr. James M. Dorsey, “The Fragility of Middle East Alliances,” BESA Center, November 12, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/frail-middle-east-alliances/

Rachana Dubey, “Ten Israeli films to be screened at IFFI in Goa, India,” Times of India, November 13, 2018. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/hollywood/news/ten-israeli-films-to-be-screened-at-iffi-in-goa/articleshow/66606931.cms

Jospeh Dubroff, “Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 Economic Reforms in Light of Recently Assertive Foreign Policy Choices,” Moshe Dayan Center, November 25, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/saudi-arabias-vision-2030-economic-reforms-light-recently-assertive-foreign-policy-choices

Wilson Fache, “Palestinians fear for their lives as real estate battle rages in Jerusalem,” The National, November 27, 2018. https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/palestinians-fear-for-their-lives-as-real-estate-battle-rages-in-jerusalem-1.796596

Seth J. Frantzman, “How Hamas Brought Israel to the Brink of Election Chaos,” The National Interest, November 16, 2018.  https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/how-hamas-brought-israel-brink-election-chaos-36272

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, “Can Organized Jewry in Germany Behave “Normally?” BESA Center, November 6, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/germany-jews-afd/

Jonathan Gratch, “Millennial musicians breach borders at Tel Aviv Jazz Fest,” i24News, November 29, 2018. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/culture/189882-181129-tel-aviv-jazz-festival-showcases-millennial-musicians

Shaun Ho, “The Future of Sino-Israeli Relations: Optimism or Caution,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, November 27, 2018. http://jcpa.org/article/the-future-of-sino-israeli-relations-optimism-or-caution/

Raymond Kelly, Michael Silber, David Cohen, “NYPD’S Top Cops; This is how we Should Combat Violent Anti-Semitism,” Jerusalem Post, November 21, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/NYPDs-top-cops-This-is-how-we-should-combat-violent-antisemitism-572485

Joshua Krasna, “Israel and the Gulf States: Some Things Change, Some Stay the Same,” JISS, November 29, 2018. https://jiss.org.il/en/krasna-israel-and-the-gulf-states-some-things-change-some-stay-the-same/

Kim Lavi and Udi Dekel, “Looking at the Gaza Strip: From Short Term to Long Term,” INSS, November 20, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/looking-gaza-strip-short-term-long-term/?offset=1&posts=1111&type=399

Derek Lief, “Jordan’s Summer of Discontent and Its Consequences,” Moshe Dayan Center, November 25, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/jordans-summer-discontent-and-its-consequences

Peter Lintl, Stefan Wolfrum, “Israel’s Nation-State Law,” SWP Berlin, November 2018. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/israels-nation-state-law/

David Makovsky, “Why Has Netanyahu Reversed Course on Early Elections?” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 20, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-has-netanyahu-reversed-course-on-early-elections

Sarah Moosazadeh, “Israeli-Iranian Singer Unites Different Cultures,” Jerusalem Post, November 12, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-Iranian-singer-unites-different-cultures-571761

Tarek Osman, “Arabs and Europeans: The way forward,” Al-Ahram Weekly, November 2018. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/25398.aspx

David Pollock, “New Polls Show Most Gazans Want Israeli Jobs, Not Hamas Mobs,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 29, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/new-polls-show-most-gazans-want-jobs-not-mobs

Itamar Rabinovich, “Israel and the Arab World,” (Hazan, et al ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society, Oxford University Press, 2018. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675585.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190675585-e-28

Jennifer Richler, “Finding a New Path: Israel Wakes up to the Nedds of ex-haredim,” Tablet, November 16, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/274033/finding-a-new-path

Armin Rosen, “The BDS Debate Enters its Next Phase (goes to Congress,), Tablet, November 19, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/275442/the-bds-debate-enters-its-next-phase

Nathan Sales, “Tehran’s International Targets: Assessing Iranian Terror Sponsorship,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 13, 2018.  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/tehrans-international-targets-assessing-iranian-terror-sponsorship

Robert Sarner, “At Paris conference, expat Israelis strategize how to empower growing ‘diaspora’,” Time of Israel, November 4, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-paris-conference-expat-israelis-strategize-how-to-empower-growing-diaspora/

Avram Sela, “Israel and the Palestinians,” (Hazan, et al ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society, Oxford University Press, 2018. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675585.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190675585-e-27

Shalom Salomon Wald, “India’s Israel relations, the Middle East and China,” Jewish People’s Policy Institute, November 2018. http://jppi.org.il/new/en/article/english-indias-israel-relations-the-middle-east-and-china/#.XAU94C-ZNTZ

Anita Shapira, “Political History of Israel.” (Hazan, et al ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society, Oxford University Press, 2018. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675585.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190675585-e-5

Shoshana Solomon, “As obesity surges, Israeli startup develops sweet protein to help cut calories,” Times of Israel, November 8, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-obesity-surges-israeli-startup-develops-sweet-protein-to-help-cut-calories/

Amy Spiro, “Several Israel-Themed Films Heading to Sundance,” Jerusalem Post, November 29, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Several-Israel-themed-films-heading-to-Sundance-573137

Kenneth Stein, “US-Israel Relationship,” (Hazan, et al ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society, Oxford University Press, 2018, http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675585.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190675585-e-29

Shimon Stein, Emily B. Landau, “Trump’s Intent to Exit the INF Treaty: Implications for US-Russian Arms Control and Strategic Stability,” INSS, November 18, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/trumps-intent-exit-inf-treaty-implications-us-russian-arms-control-strategic-stability/?offset=2&posts=1111&type=399

Yael Yishai, “Civil Society and Israel Democracy,” (Hazan, et al ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society, Oxford University Press, 2018. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675585.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190675585-e-35

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

Adnan Abu Amer,  “Have Palestinians given up on resistance?” Al-Monitor, October 26, 2018. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/10/palestinian-poll-support-armed-resistance-negotiations.html#ixzz5VfZvi5PS

Entsar Abu Jahal, “How Palestinian Exports of $1 Billion Impact Trade Deficit,” Al-Monitor, October 31, 2018. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/10/palestine-exports-increase-israel-economy-trade-deficit.html

Anna Ahronheim, “The Most Vegan Army in the World,” Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/The-most-vegan-army-in-the-world-568595

Daniel L. Byman, “Will Israel and Iran go to war in Syria?”Brookings, October 5, 2018.  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/10/05/will-israel-and-iran-go-to-war-in-syria/

Omer Dostri, “China-Israel Relations: Growing Cooperation Amidst Conflicting Interests,” JISS, October 25, 2018. https://jiss.org.il/en/dostri-china-israel-relations-growing-cooperation-amidst-conflicting-interests/

Oded Eran, “Israel’s Stake in the Egyptian Natural Gas Pipeline: Strategic and Economic Benefits,” INSS, October 23, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/israels-stake-in-the-egyptian-natural-gas-pipeline-strategic-and-economic-benefits/?offset=5&posts=1103&type=399

Frank Fang, “China’s Growing Economic and Military Interests in Israel Tech investments and military tech transfers aimed at countering US,” Epoch Times, October 28, 2018. https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinas-growing-economic-and-military-interests-in-israel_2701919.html

Shai Feldman, “Forty-Five Years After the 1973 War, Israel Faces Another Year of Decision,” October 15, 2018. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/forty-five-years-after-1973-war-israel-faces-another-year-decision-33551

Daniel Friedman, “An Israeli wedding between an Arab and a Jew,” Ynet News, October 15, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5371760,00.html

Hillel Frisch, “Comparing Hebrew and Arabic Wikipedia Entries on the 1973 War,” Begin Sadat Center,October 31, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/yom-kippur-war-wikipedia/

Jerusalem Media Center: Ceasefire, Confderation and Gender in the Palestinian Community, Poll no. 93, October 16, 2018, http://www.jmcc.org/documentsandmaps.aspx?id=880

Polina Garev, “Is Berlin the new promised land for Israelis?” i24News, October 18, 2018.  https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/culture/186507-181016-is-berlin-the-new-promised-land-for-israelis

Jessica Haflin, “Eyal Shani, Israel’s world-famous roasted-cauliflower king,”Israel21c, October 4, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/eyal-shani-israels-world-famous-roasted-cauliflower-king/

Haisam Hassanein, “Sisi’s Anti-Israel Rhetoric: New Speeches, Old Problems,”Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 17, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/sisis-anti-israel-rhetoric-new-speeches-old-problems

Human Rights Watch, “Palestine: Authorities Crush Dissent,” Human Rights Watch, October 23, 2018. https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/10/23/palestine-authorities-crush-dissent

Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky, “As the US Cuts Funding, UNRWA Employees Flee Gaza,”Begin Sadat Center,October 25, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/unrwa-funding-employees-gaza/

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli named BBC Philharmonic chief conductor,” Israel21c, October 10, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-named-bbc-philharmonic-chief-conductor/

Ariel Koch, “Al-Qaeda’s Propaganda in the Virtual Turkey,” Moshe Dayan Center, October 15, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/al-qaedas-propaganda-virtual-turkey

Melanie Lidman, “New fund utilizes Israeli tech to help small farmers in Africa,” Time of Israel, October 11, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-fund-utilizes-israeli-tech-to-help-small-farmers-in-africa/

Peter Lintl and Stefan Wolfrum, “Israel’s Nation-State Law Netanyahu Government Lays the Foundations for a Majoritarian System,” SWP Berlin, October 2018.  https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/israels-nation-state-law/

Shalom Lipner, “After the midterms, could a threatened, volatile Trump flip on Israel?”Brookings, October 24, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/10/24/after-the-midterms-could-a-threatened-volatile-trump-flip-on-israel

David Mikics, “Ivory Tower Bigots,” Tablet, October 16, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/272512/ivory-tower-bigots?fbclid=IwAR2LRtz8iUjcWlatrmZlDFeezqwlLlsyucKt3zPDiv9FLpBcmY4yNAkoFm0

Tarek Osman, “Arabs and Europeans: The way forward,” al-Ahram Weekly, October 2018. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/25398.aspx

Oren Peleg, “Can California Embrace Israeli Water Technology?” Jewish Journal, October 24, 2018. http://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/240749/can-california-embrace-israeli-water-technology/

Oded Raanan & Vera Michlin-Shapir, “Israel-Russia Relations: Mutual Esteem or Cold-Eyed Utilitarianism?” Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy, October 14, 2018.https://www.eng.arenajournal.org.il/single-post/2018/10/14/raanan-michlin-israel-russia-ENG

Ofek Riemer, “Not by the Media Alone: The Israeli Campaign against the Conversion of Rockets in Lebanon to Precision-Guided Missiles,”INSS, October 23, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/not-media-alone-israeli-campaign-conversion-rockets-lebanon-precision-guided-missiles/?offset=2&posts=1103&type=399

Paul Rivlin, “The Sanctioned States: Economic Crises in Iran and Turkey,” Moshe Dayan Center, October 24, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/sanctioned-states-economic-crises-iran-and-turkey

Asaf Romirovsky, “Normalizing Anti-Semitism in the US,”Begin Sadat Center,October 12, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/antisemitism-united-states/

Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, “If Trump Wants the Ultimate Deal, He Must Not Repeat These Mistakes,”Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 2, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/if-trump-wants-the-ultimate-deal-he-must-not-repeat-these-mistakes

Shoshana Solomon, “Australian-Israeli startup creates water-based fuel for electric vehicles,” Times of Israel, October 30, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-israeli-startup-creates-water-based-fuel-for-electric-vehicles/

Jessica Steinberg, “This balaboosta reigns over her own Israeli food empire, in New York City,” Times of Israel, October 15, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/this-balaboosta-reigns-over-her-own-israeli-food-empire-in-new-york-city/

Aaron Davdi Miller and Hillel Zand, “Progress Without Peace in the Middle East,” The Atlantic, November 1, 2019. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/israeli-arab-cooperation-without-israeli-palestinian-peace/574564/

Gilead Sher and Mor Ben-Kalifa, “Challenge to the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty,” INSS, October 29, 2018.www.inss.org.il/publication/challenge-israel-jordan-peace-treaty/?offset=0&posts=1103&type=399

Meir Y. Soloveichick, “Jimmy Carter: The Sunday-School Years,” Commentary Magazine, October 2018. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jimmy-carter-sunday-school-years/

Rebecca Stadlen Amir, “7 extraordinary Israeli-designed music videos,” Israel21c, October 11, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/7-extraordinary-israeli-designed-music-videos/

Times of Israel Staff, “Co-hosting trade conference with Netanyahu, China’s VP hails Israeli technology,” Times of Israel, October 25, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/co-hosting-trade-conference-with-netanyahu-chinas-vp-hails-israeli-technology/

Times of Israel Staff, “In first, ‘Hatikva’ anthem played at UAE contest as Israeli judoka wins gold,” Times of Israel, October 28, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-hatikva-anthem-played-at-uae-contest-after-israeli-judoka-wins-gold/

Times of Israel Staff, “TV report: Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet,” Times of Israel, October 31, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/tv-report-israel-silent-as-iran-hit-by-computer-virus-more-violent-than-stuxnet/

Dr. George N. Tzogopoulos, “Merkel’s Approach to Israel Has Not Progressed,”Begin Sadat Center,October 15, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/merkel-israel-history/

Amos Yadlin, “How to get out of the Palestinian trap,” Ynet News, October 18, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5373585,00.html

Jim Zanotti, “Israel: Background and U.S. Relations,” Congressional Research Service, July 31, 2018.  https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33476.pdf

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

Adnan Abu Amer, “Economic ties going strong between Israel, Palestine,” Al-Monitor, September 28, 2018. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/09/palestine-israel-telecom-economic-political-relations.html

Dania Akkad, “Pipeline purchase paves way for Israeli gas exports to Egypt,” Middle East Eye, October 1, 2018. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/deal-allow-israeli-gas-exports-egypt-1178922390

Alexander Apfel, “Trump says ‘two-state solution works best,’” YNet News, September 26, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5358627,00.html

Emil Avdaliani, “Battle with Fate: Russia, Geography, and the Historical Cycle,” BESA Center. September 20, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/russia-geography/

Lidia Averbukh and Margarete Klein, “Russia-Israel Relationship Transformed by Syria Conflict,” SWP Berlin, September 2018. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/russia-israel-relationship-transformed-by-syria-conflict/

Yossi Beilin. “Looking Back on Oslo, 25 Years Later,” Al Monitor, September 10, 2018. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/09/israel-us-palestinians-oslo-yitzhak-rabin-shimon-peres-abbas.html

Jamille Bigio. “25 Years Since the Oslo Accords: Tzipi Livni and Zahira Kamal on Women’s Contributions to Peace,” Council on Foreign Relations, September 13, 2018. https://www.cfr.org/blog/25-years-oslo-accords-tzipi-livni-and-zahira-kamal-womens-contributions-peace

Brian Bloom, “VC fund for food-tech in Israel signs Cornell partnership,” Israel21c, September 12, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/vc-fund-for-food-tech-in-israel-signs-cornell-partnership/

Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen, “The Passing of Uri Avnery,” BESA Center. September 24, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/uri-avnery/

Lars Brozus, “While We Were Planning Unexpected Developments in International Politics. Foresight Contributions 2018,” SWP Berlin, September 2018. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/unexpected-developments-in-international-politics/

Dan Diker, “Defeating Denormalization: Shared Palestinian and Israeli Perspectives on a New Path to Peace,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 2018. http://jcpa.org/defeating-denormalization/

Tomer Fadlon and Sason Hadad, “Collateral Damage: How US Sanctions against Iran Harm Iraq,” www.inss.org.il/publication/collateral-damage-how-us-sanctions-against-iran-harm-iraq/?offset=1&posts=1096&type=399

Shlomo Fischer, “The Jewish State at 70,” Jewish People Policy Institute, September 2018. http://jppi.org.il/new/en/article/aa2018/#.W7IyMGaZNTb

Hillel Frisch, “What Is the Right Strategy with Hamas: Make Concessions or Fight?” BESA Center. September 27, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/hamas-concessions-fight/

Tamar Hammerman and Ephraim Yaar, “Is the Two-State Solution Still Relevant?” Israel Democracy Institute, Setpember 5, 2018. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/24478

Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky and Kobi Michael, “The End to US Funding to UNRWA: Opportunity or Threat?” INSS, September 6, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/end-us-funding-unrwa-opportunity-threat/?offset=2&posts=1096&type=399

Efraim Inbar. “Twenty Years to Oslo: Perspectives.” BESA Center, September 10, 2013. http://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/perspectives2131.pdf.

Martin Indyk. “The Day Israeli-Palestinian Peace Seemed Within Reach,” The Atlantic, September 13, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/25-years-oslo-anniversary-israeli-palestinian-peace/570190/

Paula Jacobs, “Israeli Kids Living in the U.S. Find a Classroom of Their Own,” Tablet Magazine, September 26, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/269892/israelis-united-states-classroom

Alex Joffe, “The Anti-Israel Effort Intensifies in Politics and On Campus,” BESA Center, September 11, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/anti-israel-politics-campus/

Efraim Karsh. “The Oslo Disaster Revisited: How it Happened” BESA Center, September 13, 2018. https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/154-Karsh-The-Oslo-Disaster-Revisited-Web.pdf

Herb Keinon, “Russia-Israel Ties: From the Viewpoint of Russi’a Embassy in Tel Aviv,” Jerusalem Post, September 30, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Russia-Israel-ties-From-the-viewpoint-of-Russias-embassy-in-Tel-Aviv-568018

Dana Kessler, “Searching for ‘Real’ Israeli Food,” Tablet Magazine, September 12, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/270598/is-there-such-a-thing-as-israeli-food

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli water filters donated to Cameroon to fight cholera,” Israel21c, September 9, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-water-filters-donated-to-cameroon-to-fight-cholera/

Cnaan Liphshiz, “An Israeli singer in Amsterdam creates the world’s first Ladino pop album,” Times of Israel, September 24, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/an-israeli-singer-in-amsterdam-creates-the-worlds-first-ladino-pop-album/

Sharon Magen, “From Regulation to Relaxation: The Story of Two Start-Up Nations,” Times of Israel, September 2, 2018. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-regulation-to-relaxation-the-story-of-two-start-up-nations/

Linda Menuhin AbdelAziz, “An Israeli Facebook Page ‘In Iraqi Dialect,’” The Washington Institute for Near East Studies, September 24, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/an-israeli-facebook-page-in-iraqi-dialect

Elhanan Miller, “Between War and Peace: an interview with Senior Hamas Leader, Husam Badran,” Tablet Magazine, September 17, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/271017/interview-hamas-leader-husam-badran

Yaakov Peri, “A roaring Gazan economy could silence the booms of conflict,” YNet News, September 30, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5361144,00.html

Ofer Petersburg, “Israeli-Palestinian hi-tech hub heading to West Bank,” YNet News, September 3, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5340253,00.html

David Pollack, “New Saudi Views of Jews—and of Israel,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 12, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/new-saudi-views-of-jewsand-of-israel

Bruce Reidel. “The Oslo Accords at 25: The View from Jordan,” Brookings Institute, September 11, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/09/11/the-oslo-accords-at-25-the-view-from-jordan/

Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch, “Who Will Reconstruct War-Torn Syria? China Might Be a Candidate,” Abba Eban Institute of International Diplomacy, September 28, 2018. https://www.eng.arenajournal.org.il/single-post/2018/09/12/Rosen-China-Syria-ENG 

Jennifer Roskies. “Selling Oslo to the Jewish Community,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 16, 2018. http://jcpa.org/selling-oslo-to-the-jewish-community/

Shmuel Rosner and Camil Fuchs, “From Reckoning to Biking: Israelis Remake Yom Kippur?” The Jewish People Policy Institute, September 13, 2018. http://jppi.org.il/new/en/article/bikeday/#.W7IuTWaZNTa

Dennis Ross, “A Delicate Dance: The Arab World’s Critical Role in the Trump Peace Plan,” Abba Eban Institute of International Diplomacy, September 28, 2018. https://www.eng.arenajournal.org.il/single-post/2018/09/12/Rosen-China-Syria-ENG

Matan Rubin and Beatrice Hasler, “Through the Other’s Eyes: How VR Can Transform Diplomacy,” Abba Eban Institute of International Diplomacy, September 28, 2018. https://www.eng.arenajournal.org.il/single-post/2018/09/28/Through-the-Other’s-Eyes-How-VR-Can-Transform-Diplomacy

Robert Satloff, “The Myth of “Failed” Peace:” Oslo at 25 Looking Ahead,” The American Interest, September 12, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-myth-of-failed-peace

Malina Saval, “Meet Dennis Lloyd, the Israeli Singer Who’s Charting in the Arab World,” Variety, September 7, 2018. https://variety.com/2018/music/news/dennis-lloyd-nevermind-interview-1202924931/

Ben Shalev, “The Ethiopian Music Scene in Israel Begins to Take Center Stage,” Haaretz, September 30, 2018. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-say-it-loud-these-musicians-are-black-and-they-re-proud-1.6511428

Harriet Sherwood, “‘I want to be a doctor, not a rabbi:’ how Israeli ultra-Orthodox are being drawn into work,” The Guardian, September 10, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/10/i-want-to-be-a-doctor-not-a-rabbi-how-israeli-ultra-orthodox-are-being-drawn-into-work

Joel Singer, Dennis Ross, Ghaith al-Omari and David Makovsky. “The Oslo Diaries: Insiders’ Views of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Then and Now,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 13, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hbos-the-oslo-diaries

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/

Tamara Cofman Wittes. “The Oslo Accords at 25: A personal reflection,” Brookings Institute, September 13, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/09/13/the-oslo-accords-at-25-a-personal-reflection/v

Amos Yadlin, “Israel’s war between wars,” Ynet News, September 7, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5342962,00.html

Ynet News Staff, “UAE used Israeli software to spy on Saudi Arabia, Qatar,” Ynet News, September 1, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5339086,00.html

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Emory University and Center for Israel Education
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Anna Ahronheim, “American Students go back to School with Israeli Bulletproof Backpacks,” August 29, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/American-students-go-back-to-school-with-Israeli-bulletproof-backpacks-566069  

Amiram Barkat, “Israel’s economy grew at just 2% in Q2,” Globes, August 16, 2018. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israels-economy-grew-at-just-2-in-q2-1001250399

Tal Becker, “The Claim for Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State,”Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 2011. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyFocus108.pdf

Maj. Nadav Ben-Hour, IDF and Michael Eisenstadt, “The Great Middle Eastern War of 2019,”Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 29, 2018.  https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-great-middle-eastern-war-of-2019

Hannah Brown, “Haifa International Film Festival Also Gets in on the Act,” Jerusalem Post, August 15, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Haifa-International-Film-Festival-also-gets-in-on-the-act-564970

Yitzhak Degani, “The Assad Regime Returns to the Golan,”  Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, August 15, 2018, https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/assad-returns-golan/

Michael de la Merced, “PepsiCo to Buy [Israeli Company] SodaStream for $3.2 Billion, in Push for Healthier Options,” New York Times, August 20, 2018.  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/business/dealbook/pepsi-sodastream.html

Giora Eiland, “What do the three players [Israel, Egypt, & Hamas] stand to gain from the Gaza ceasefire deal?” Ynet News, August 19, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5331489,00.html

Caleb Esrig, “Jordan’s Economy at a Crossroads: Part 2,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies,August 2018. https://dayan.org/content/jordan’s-economy-crossroads-part-2

Shmuel Evan, “Israel’s Credit Rating and National Security,” INSS, August 24, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/israels-credit-rating-national-security/?offset=3&posts=1091&type=399  

Doron Feldman, “The US 2018 Midterms and 2020 Presidential Election: Implications for Israel,” BESA Center, August 20, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/midterm-elections-israel/

Oliver Franklin-Wallace, “The hottest startups in Tel Aviv,” Wired, August 30, 2018.   https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-startups-in-tel-aviv-2018

Yaron Friedman, “The Parallel Universe of Hassan Nasrallah” Y-Net. August 30, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5338317,00.html

Hillel Frisch, “The Gulf States: The Weak Link in Sanctions on Iran,”BESA Center, August 13, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/gulf-states-weak-link-sanctions-on-iran/

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, “The Israel-Hamas Deal: Escape from Oslo,” BESA Center, August 28, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-hamas-oslo/   

Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky, “US-Israel Bilateral Relations and Recent Developments in the UN,”INSS, August 24, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/us-israel-bilateral-relations-recent-developments-un/?offset=8&posts=1091&type=399

David Hazony, “Israeli Identity and the Future of American Jewry,” The Tower, June-July 2017.  www.thetower.org/article/israeli-identity-and-the-future-of-american-jewry/

Abigail Klein-Leichman, “Israeli tech incubator partners with South Korean VC funds,” Israel21c,August 6, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-tech-incubator-partners-with-south-korean-vc-funds/=

Julia Knobloch, “German Girls and Israeli Heartthrobs: ‘Eskimo Limon’ Turns 40,” Tablet Magazine, August 08, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/268146/when-german-girls-learned-to-love-israeli-screen-stars-eskimo-limon-turns-40

David Makovsky and Ghaith al-Omari, “Arab Leaders Need to Step Up to Avert War in Gaza,” Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2018. https://www.wsj.com/articles/arab-leaders-need-to-step-up-to-avert-war-in-gaza-1533596034

Asaf Malchi, “Israel’s wealthiest are abandoning IDF combat units,”The Israel Democracy Institute, August 01, 2018.  https://en.idi.org.il/articles/24325

Stephen Marshal, “The Israeli job market is growing rapidly – career guidance,” Times of Israel, September 4, 2018. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-israeli-job-market-is-growing-rapidly-career-guidance/

Doron Matza, Meir Elran, Khader Sawaed and Ephraim Lavie, “The Arab Society in Israel and the Nation State Law,”INSS, August 24, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/arab-society-israel-nation-state-law/?offset=4&posts=1091&type=399

Amir Mizroch, “Something Big Is Cooking In Israel’s Food Tech Kitchen,” Forbes, September 3, 2018.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/startupnationcentral/2018/09/03/something-big-is-cooking-in-israels-food-tech-kitchen/#1e53d8c96b18

Yohanan Plesner, “Strengthening Jewish Peoplehood in The Diaspora – But Not in Israel,” Israel Democracy Institute, August 7, 2018, https://en.idi.org.il/articles/24366

James Phillips, “Iran’s Economy Can’t be Shielded from US Sanctions,” National Interest, August 16. 2018, https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/irans-economy-cant-be-shielded-us-sanctions-28942

David Pollock, “Seeing Saudi Changes Up Close: A Week’s Worth of Surprises,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 13, 2018.   https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/seeing-saudi-changes-up-close-a-weeks-worth-of-surprises

Dennis Ross, “Iran Is Throwing a Tantrum but Wants a Deal,”Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 15, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/iran-is-throwing-a-tantrum-but-wants-a-deal

Armin Rozen, “Israel’s Top Military Strategist Talks War and Peace,” Tablet Magazine, August 12, 2018. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/middle-east/268149/yaakov-amidror-israel-top-military-strategist

Dr. Assaf Shapira, Avital Fridman and Shahaf Zamir, “Parliamentary Work Index for Israel’s Political Parties,” The Israel Democracy Institute, August 15, 2018. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/24407  

Adi Schwartz, “Is a Historic Decision on UNRWA Imminent?” BESA Center, August 29, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/unrwa-historic-decision/

Joel Singer, “Twenty-five years since Oslo: an insider’s account,” Fathom Journal, August 2018. http://fathomjournal.org/oslo-25-twenty-five-years-since-oslo-an-insiders-account/   

Amy Spiro, “Israeli Cuisine Continues to Conquer the Globe,”Jerusalem Post, August 28, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-cuisine-continues-to-conquer-the-globe-565986

Times of Israel Staff, “Israel to boost security budget by hundreds of millions of dollars,” Times of Israel, August 16, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-boost-security-budget-by-hundreds-of-millions-of-shekels/

The Tower Staff, “Israeli Finance Minister Looks to Improve West Bank Economy as PA Rejects Peace Overtures,” The Tower,August 23, 2018. www.thetower.org/6584-israeli-finance-minister-looks-to-improve-west-bank-economy-as-pa-rejects-peace-overtures/

Yohanan Tzoreff, “The PLO Central Council Meeting and Efforts toward an Arrangement in Gaza: Two Sides of the Same Coin,” INSS, August 27, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/plo-central-council-meeting-efforts-toward-arrangement-gaza-two-sides-coin/?offset=0&posts=1091&type=399

Mark Venables, “Israel Eyeing the Oil And Gas Prize For Its Technology Cluster,” Forbes, August 30, 2018. https://www.forbes.com/sites/markvenables/2018/08/30/israel-eyeing-the-oil-and-gas-prize-for-its-technology-cluster/#1d97d44b65ee

Emily Zemler, “Lana Del Rey Defends Israel Performance: ‘Music Is Universal,’” Rolling Stone, August 20, 2018. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-defends-israel-performance-music-is-universal-713207/

Niri Zilber, “Trump Wants to Help Israel by Cutting Aid to Palestinians. Why Are Some Israelis Worried?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 29, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/trump-wants-to-help-israel-by-cutting-aid-to-palestinians.-why-are-some-isr

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Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu 

Amiram Barkat, “Moody’s Gives Israel a ‘Positive’ Economic Outlook,” Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Moodys-gives-Israel-a-positive-economic-outlook-563202

Nicky Blackburn, “Rescuers Turn to Israeli Tech to Help Save Trapped Thai Boys, Israel21c, July 4, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/rescuers-turn-to-israeli-tech-to-help-save-trapped-thai-boys/

Yonah Jeremy Bob, “U.S. Defense Official Works with Israel on Cutting Edge Anti-Terror Tech,” Jerusalem Post, July 6, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/US-defense-official-works-with-Israel-on-cutting-edge-anti-terror-tech-561797

Edy Cohen, “Saudi Arabia and Israel: Know Thine Enemy,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, July 20, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/saudi-arabia-israel-enemies/

Michelle Divon, “Israeli Jew and Yemenite Muslim: A Musical Match that Could Only Be Made in NY,” The Times of Israel, July 18, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-jew-and-yemenite-muslim-a-musical-match-that-could-only-be-made-in-ny/

Oded Eran and Elia Rettig, “New Obstacles Facing Israeli Natural Gas Exports,” INSS, July 10, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/new-obstacles-facing-israeli-natural-gas-exports/

Yoram Ettinger, “Israel’s high-tech opportunities,” The Ettinger Report, August 2, 2018. http://www.theettingerreport.com/Overseas-Investments/Israel-s-high-tech-opportunities.aspx

Shmuel Even and Sason Hadad, “US Aid to Israel: Budgetary and Strategic Significance,” INSS, July 4, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/us-aid-israel-budgetary-strategic-significance/?offset=9&posts=1081&type=399

Nizan Feldman and Shmuel Even, “The Global Trade War: Scenarios and Significance for Israel,” INSS, July 19, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/global-trade-war-scenarios-significance-israel/?offset=4&posts=1081&type=399

Hillel Frisch, “Why Russia Needs Israel,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, July 16, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/russia-needs-israel/

Jessica Halfin, “Israel’s Most Underrated Food Destination,” The Forward, July 30, 2018. https://forward.com/food/406592/israels-most-underrated-food-destination/

Tamar Herman and Ephraim Ya’ar, “Will Trump’s Peace Plane Gain Traction?” Israel Democracy Institute, July 2, 2018. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/24045

Sarah Hershenson, “Yehoram Ganon and the Israeli Philharmonic – Two Classics Come Together,” Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Yehoram-Gaon-and-the-Israeli-Philharmonic-two-classics-come-together-562714

Kevin Huggard, “An Alternative Vision for Israel [Interview with Israeli MK Yair Lapid],” Brookings Institution, July 3, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/07/03/an-alternative-vision-for-israel/

Josef Jaffe, “Palestinian Sovereignty after Abbas,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, July 13, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/palestinian-sovereignty-abbas/

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli Chef’s Vegan Shakshuka and Shawarma Prove US Hit,” Israel21c, July 31, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-chefs-vegan-shakshuka-shawarma-proves-us-hit/

Yaakov Lappin, “A Failure at State-Building, Hamas Sticks to Military Buildup in Gaza,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, July 23, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/failure-state-building-hamas-sticks-to-military-buildup-in-gaza/

Matthew Levitt, “Hezbollah’s Corruption Crisis Runs Deep,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 20, 2018. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hezbollahs-corruption-crisis-runs-deep

Shalom Lipner, “The summer of Israel’s contentment,” Brookings Institution, July 30, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/07/30/the-summer-of-israels-contentment/

Josh Lurie, “In Valley Village, Café Florentine Is Tweaking Israeli Comfort Food,” Los Angeles Magazine, July 13, 2018. http://www.lamag.com/digestblog/cafe-florentine/

The Media Line, “Match Made in Hi-Tech Heaven: Israel and South Korea, YNet News, July 7, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5304585,00.html

Gil Murciano, “Preventing a Spillover of the Iran Israel Conflict in Syria,” SWP Berlin, July 2018. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/preventing-a-spillover-of-the-iran-israel-conflict-in-syria/

Jeremy Repanich, “The Popularity of Israeli Food in America Began with Chef Michael Solomonov,” Robb Report, July 17, 2018. https://robbreport.com/food-drink/dining/zahav-solomonov-modern-israeli-philadelphia-eg18-2806725/

Yotam Rosner and Adi Kantor, eds. , The European Union in Turbulent Times: Challenges, Trends, and Significance for Israel, INSS, June 2018

http://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Memo177EU_ENG_5.pdf

Max Schindler, “In Sign of Booming Economy, Almost Half of Israelis Going Abroad,” Jerusalem Post, July 2, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/In-sign-of-booming-economy-almost-half-of-Israelis-going-abroad-561367

Amy Spiro, “Israeli Film Industry Furious Over Proposed Funding Changes,” Variety, July 16, 2018. https://variety.com/2018/film/news/israel-film-industry-furious-proposed-funding-changes-1202874074/

Amy Spiro, “Spotify Reveals that Israelis Love Israeli Music,” Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/OMG/Spotify-reveals-that-Israelis-love-Israeli-music-549883

Itay Stern and Nirit Anderman, “Two Israeli Films Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Awards,” Haaretz, July 28, 2018. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-two-israeli-films-nominated-for-the-2018-emmy-awards-1.6317793

Avi Temkin, “Analysis: Few Arabs and Haredim in the Workforce Isn’t Israel’s Only Issue,” Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Analysis-Few-Arabs-and-haredim-in-the-workforce-isnt-Israels-only-issue-561505

David Wainer and Selcuk Gokoluk, “Israel Risks Falling Behind on Inflation in Bid to Weaken Shekel,” Bloomberg, July 26, 2018. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/israel-risks-falling-behind-on-inflation-in-bid-to-weaken-shekel

Joby Warrick, “Papers Stolen in Daring Israeli Raid on Tehran Archive Reveal the Extent of Iran’s Past Weapons Research,” Washington Post, July 15, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/papers-stolen-in-a-daring-israeli-raid-on-tehran-archive-reveal-the-extent-of-irans-past-weapons-research/2018/07/15/0f7911c8-877c-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html?utm_term=.a60f60f66653

Avi Weiss, “Is the Israeli-Arab and Ultra-Orthodox Population Actually Booming?” The Forward, July 5, 2018. https://forward.com/scribe/404509/is-the-israeli-arab-and-ultra-orthodox-population-actually-booming/

Karolina Zielinska and Nir Boms, “Israel and the Southern De-escalation Zone: A Closer Look at the Israeli-Syrian Border,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, July 12, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/israel-and-southern-de-escalation-zone-closer-look-israeli-syrian-border

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Emory University and Center for Israel Education
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Anna Ahronheim, “Israel and Germany Green Light Billion Dollar Killer Drone Deal,” Jerusalem Post, June 14, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-and-Germany-green-light-billion-dollar-killer-drone-deal-559938

American Jewish Committee, “Twenty-Five Essays about the Current State of Israeli-American Jewish Relations,” American Jewish Committee, June 2018. https://tinyurl.com/yafr3rzf

Shimon Arad, “The Revised Arms Export Policy of Israel and the US,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, June 15, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/arms-export-policy-israel/

Yehuda Bauer and Moshe Fox, “On the Perils of “Positive” Anti-Semitism,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, May 17, 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23739770.2018.1473112

Soner Cagaptay, Lisel Hintz, Nick Danforth, and Col. Rich Outzen, “Turkey’s Historic Elections: What to Expect Next?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 29, 2018 http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/turkeys-historic-election-what-to-expect-next

Michael Eppel, “The Kurds and the 2018 Iraqi Parliamentary Elections,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, June 18, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/kurds-and-2018-iraqi-parliamentary-elections

Oded Eran, “Demonstrations in Jordan: A Bona Fide Threat to the Regime?” INSS, June 7, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/demonstrations-jordan-bona-fide-threat-regime/?offset=4&posts=1070&type=399

Forward Staff, “‘The Band’s Visit’ Sweeps Up Tonys,” The Forward, June 11, 2018. https://forward.com/culture/402871/the-bands-visit-sweeps-up-tonys/

Yoel Guzansky, Oded Eran, “The Red Sea: An Old-New Arena of Interest,” INSS, June 24, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/red-sea-old-new-arena-interest/?offset=1&posts=1070&type=399

Gershon Hacohen, “Hamas’s Kite Terrorism: A Threat that Requires a Decisive Response,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, June 20, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/hamas-kite-terrorism/

Hagay Hacohen, “Marching to a Different Beat,” Jerusalem Post, June 28, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Marching-to-a-different-beat-561128

Yagil Henkin, “A High Price for our Blood: Israel’s Security Doctrines,” The Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, June 7, 2018. https://jiss.org.il/en/henkin-high-price-blood-israels-security-doctrines/

Pinhas Inbari, “Erdogan’s Turkey Intensifies Involvement in Gaza and Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 15, 2018. http://jcpa.org/article/erdogans-turkey-intensifies-involvement-in-gaza-and-jerusalem/

Doron Itzchakov, “Iran’s Quds Day: Ideology or Interests?” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, June 27, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-quds-day/

Herb Keinon, “Officials: New Columbian President Will Continue Close Ties with Israel,” Jerusalem Post, June 19, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Officials-New-Colombian-president-will-continue-close-ties-with-Israel-560300

Aharon Klieman, “Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change and the Jewish Origins of Israeli Foreign Policy: A Study in Tradition and Survival,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, May 17, 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23739770.2018.1471644

Abigail Klein Leichman, “10 incredible Israeli techs that are transforming lives worldwide,” Israel 21c, June 5, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/10-incredible-israeli-firms-that-are-transforming-lives-worldwide/

Jared Kushner, “Transcript: Jared Kushner’s Interview with a Palestinian Newspaper [on American-led negotiating process], New York Times, June 24, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/world/middleeast/jared-kushner-interview-transcript.html

Ephraim Lavie, “Integrating the Arab-Palestinian Minority in Israeli Society,” INSS, April 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/INSS_EphraimLavi.pdf

David Lee, “Start-Up Nation’s Underbelly: Israel’s Child Poverty Rate Tops OECD States,” Jerusalem Post, June 19, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Start-up-Nations-underbelly-Israels-child-poverty-rate-tops-OECD-states-560331

Eran Lerman, “Netanyahu’s Visit to Amman: A Timely Reminder of Jordan’s Strategic Importance,” The Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, June 22, 2018. https://jiss.org.il/en/lerman-netanyahus-visit-to-amman-a-timely-reminder-of-jordans-strategic-importance/

Maya Margit, “Chinese Master Chefs Dazzle in Tel Aviv,” Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Chinese-master-chefs-dazzle-in-Tel-Aviv-560922

Gerri Miller, “Israel Film Festival: Celebrating a Dream, 30 Years Later,” Jewish Journal, June 6, 2018. http://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/234879/israel-film-festival-celebrating-dream-30-years-later/

Nasser bin Nasser, “Jordan’s protests: Challenges to long-term stability,” The Middle East Institute, June 19, 2018. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/jordan-must-find-long-term-stability

Paul Rivlin, “Turkey’s pre-election economic crisis,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, June 17, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/turkey’s-pre-election-economic-crisis

Noah Rothman, “The Iran Deal’s Disastrous Legacy Has Nothing to Do with Nukes,” Commentary, May 9, 2018. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/iran/iran-deal-change-the-world-nukes/

Uzi Rubin, “Israel’s Defense Industries: From Clandestine Workshops to Global Giants,” The Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, June 17, 2018. https://jiss.org.il/en/rubin-israel-defense-industries-from-clandestine-workshops-to-global-giants/

Michael Segall, “Iran’s Regime Faces Widespread Economic and Political Unrest,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 27, 2018. http://jcpa.org/irans-regime-faces-widespread-economic-and-political-unrest/

Yossi Shain, “US Jewry and Israel: A growing identity crisis,” YNet News, June 23, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5289696,00.html

Amy Spiro, “Will Next Year’s Eurovision Be Held in Jerusalem?” Jerusalem Post, June 30, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Will-next-years-Eurovision-be-held-in-Jerusalem-561137

Rebecca Stadlen Amir, “12 Israeli songs to get you through the summer heat,” Israel 21c, June 28, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/12-israeli-songs-to-get-you-through-the-summer-heat/

Kenneth Stein, “Reassessing Sadat, Begin and Carter,” Center for Israel Education, June 10, 2018. https://israeled.org/reassessing-sadat-begin-and-carter/

Jessica Steinberg, “Tel Aviv celebrates itself with annual all-nighter,” The Times of Israel, June 28, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-celebrates-itself-with-annual-all-nighter/

SWP Staff, “Actors in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Interests, Narratives and the Reciprocal Effects of the Occupation,” SWP Berlin, June 2018.  https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/actors-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

TOI Staff, “Israeli tech giant boycotts El Al over ‘discrimination against women,’” Times of Israel, June 26, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-giant-boycotts-el-al-over-discrimination-against-women/

Irina Tsukerman, “What Morocco’s Break with Iran Means,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, June 22, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/morocco-iran-relations/

George N. Tzogopoulos, “Cyprus, Greece and Israel Chart a Common Path,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, June 10, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/cyprus-greece-israel-relations/

Michael Yaari, “Israel and Saudi Arabia: From foes to potential friends,” Ynet, June 3, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5269451,00.html

Niri Zilber, “Numbers Versus Narratives in Israel-Palestine,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 30, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/numbers-versus-narratives-in-israel-palestine

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

Wajat Ali, “I Talked to Zionists—Then I Was Disinvited by a Major Muslim Group,” The Atlantic, May 30, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/i-talked-to-zioniststhen-i-was-disinvited-by-a-major-muslim-group/561575/

Jon Alterman, Heather A. Conlet, Haim Malka and Donatienne Ruy, “Restoring the Eastern Mediterranean as a US Strategic Anchor,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 22, 2018. https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/180521_Alterman_RestoringEasternMediterranean_Web.pdf?3Bj0Cb7TeG.alH.R52OTzqyyrk3lH3zR

Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheq, “What America’s Middle East allies want from Pompeo,” Arab News, April 29, 2018. http://www.arabnews.com/node/1293661

Yuval Azulai and Tal Schneider, “Globes Interview with Avigdor Liberman,” Globes, May 21, 2018. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-liberman-defense-cuts-are-harming-security-1001237124

Shmuel Berkowitz, “The Status of Jerusalem in International and Israeli Law,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. May 2018. http://jcpa.org/the-status-of-jerusalem-in-international-and-israeli-law/

Nevo Brand, Pnina Shuker, David Siman-Tov,Nevo Brand, Pnina Shuker, David Siman, ““The March of Return” – Operative Achievement and Strategic Failure: A Test Case for Cognitive Warfare,” INSS, May 30, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/march-return-operative-achievement-strategic-failure-test-case-cognitive-warfare/?offset=0&posts=1064

Hannah Brown, “Reframing Reality and Redefining [Israeli] Film,” Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Reframing-Reality-and-redefining-film-558144

Patrick Clawson, “Tactical Issues Surrounding a U.S. Withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Agreement, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyNote51-FINAL.pdf

Udi Dekel, Assaf Orion, Anat Ben Haim, Zvi Magen, “Potential for a War on the Northern Front that None of the Parties Want: Insights from a War Game,” INSS, May 3, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/potential-war-northern-front-none-parties-want-insights-war-game/

Michael Eisenstadt, “Has the Assad Regime ‘Won’ Syria’s Civil War?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 15, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/has-the-assad-regime-won-syrias-civil-war

Doron Feldman, “Donald Trump’s National Security Doctrine,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, May 11, 2018. https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/830-Trumps-Security-Doctrine-Feldman-English-final-1.pdf

Matti Friedman, “To understand Israel, listen to its pop music,” The Globe and Mail, May 11, 2018. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-to-understand-israel-listen-to-its-pop-music/

Yaron Friedman, “Israel or Iran: Who’s the Arab world’s real enemy?” YNet News, May 17, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5263184,00.html

Andrea Ghiselli, “China and the Middle East: Growing Influence and Divergent Perceptions,” The Middle East Institute, April 17, 2018. http://www.mei.edu/content/map/china-and-middle-east-growing-influence-and-divergent-goals

Nimrod Goren, “The Israel-Turkey crisis and the need for containment,” YNet News, May 23, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5268575,00.html

Yoel Guzansky, “Nuclear Development in the Arabian Peninsula: The United Arab Emirates – A Harbinger of Things to Come?” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, May 16, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/nuclear-development-arabian-peninsula-united-arab-emirates-–-harbinger-things-come-0

Doron Itzchakov, “Iran Faces Economic Challenges as Its Currency Plunges,”Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, May 1, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-currency-decline/

JerusalemCenter for Public Affairs Staff, “Political Dimension: ThePositions of the Principal Parties on the Jerusalem Question,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. http://www.jcpa.org/art/jid-poldim.htm

JTA, “‘The Band’s Visit,’ based on Israeli film, gets 11 Tony nominations,” Times of Israel, May 1, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-bands-visit-based-on-israeli-film-gets-11-tony-nominations/

Allen Keiswetter, “Trump’s national security strategy: Implications for the Middle East,” The Middle East Institute,” January 20, 2018. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/president-trumps-national-security-strategy-implications-greater-middle-east

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Hello or shalom? Half of Israeli kids grow up bilingual,” Israel21c, May 22, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/hello-or-shalom-half-of-israeli-kids-grow-up-bilingual/

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Training the disadvantaged to fill Israel’s high-tech gap,” Israel21c, May 21, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/training-the-disadvantaged-to-fill-israels-high-tech-gap/

Melanie Lidman, “With spotlight on cycling, Giro d’Italia provides much-needed break from reality,” Times of Israel, May 5, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-spotlight-on-cycling-giro-ditalia-provides-much-needed-break-from-reality/

Zvi Magen, Vera Michlin-Shapir, Udi Dekel, “Russia as Restraining Factor in the Iranian-Israeli Confrontation in Syria,” INSS, May 29, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/russia-restraining-factor-iranian-israeli-confrontation-syria/

Kobi Michael, “Time to Reach a Settlement with Functional and Restrained Entity in the Gaza Strip,” INSS. May 22, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/time-reach-settlement-functional-restrained-entity-gaza-strip/

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

No Camels Staff, “US Aerospace Giant Lockheed Martin To Open Science-Focused Preschool In Jerusalem,” No Camels, May 27, 2018. http://nocamels.com/2018/05/lockheed-martin-preschool-jerusalem/

Assaf Orion, Amos Yadlin, “Iran in the Nuclear Realm and Iran in Syria: A New State of Play,” INSS, May 14, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/iran-nuclear-realm-iran-syria-new-state-play/?offset=9&posts=1064

Joel Parker, “Hizballah’s Influence in Lebanon and the Syrian Refugee Crisis,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, May 30, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/hizballahs-influence-lebanon-and-syrian-refugee-crisis

Volker Perthes, “Europeans should Negotiate with Iran without the US,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, May 22, 2018. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/point-of-view/2018/europeans-should-negotiate-with-iran-without-the-us/

Ansel Pfeffer, “Iran Spends Billions on Proxy Wars Throughout the Mideast. Here’s Where its Money is Going,” Haaretz, January 2, 2018. https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran-spends-billions-on-proxy-wars-here-s-where-its-money-is-going-1.5630081

Robert Philpot, “Meet Sajid Javid, UK’s top Muslim, pro-Israel politician, who just may become PM,” Times of Israel, May 13, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-sajid-javid-uks-top-muslim-pro-israel-politician-who-just-may-become-pm/

Abdul Rahman Al-Rasheed, “If Israel is lying about Iran Tehran must offer real proof,” Arab News, May 4, 2018. http://www.arabnews.com/node/1296576

Paul Rivlin, “Gaza in Crisis,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, May 29, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/gaza-crisis

Asaf Romirowsky, “Zionism and the Wedge Between US and Israeli Jews,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, May 24, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/zionism-israel-us-jews/

Armin Rosen, “The State of Israel Confronts Anti-Semitism. But What Is It?” Tablet, March 2018. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/262247/global-anti-semitism

Shira Rubin, “Israel’s Millenia-Old ‘Biblical Diet,’” BBC, May 9, 2018. http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180508-israels-millennia-old-biblical-diet

Bruce K. Rutherford, “Egypt’s New Authoritarianism under Sisi,” The Middle East Journal, Spring 2018. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mei/mei/2018/00000072/00000002/art00002;jsessionid=1cm1u2xcc2ks4.x-ic-live-01

Hiddai Segev, “Sino-Israeli Security Relations: In America’s Shadow,” The Middle East Institute, May 15, 2018. http://www.mei.edu/content/map/sino-israeli-security-relations-americas-shadow

Assaf Shapira, Ofer Kenig, Reut Izkovitch, “The Representation of Women in Israeli Politics,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 2016. https://en.idi.org.il/media/4123/the-representation-of-women-in-israeli-politics.pdf

Elidad Shavit, “The Parliamentary Elections in Lebanon: Hezbollah’s Victory within the Political Status Quo,” INSS, May 10, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/parliamentary-elections-lebanon-hezbollahs-victory-within-political-status-quo/

Nadav Shragai, “The US Embassy Prepares to Move to Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 7, 2018. http://jcpa.org/article/the-u-s-embassy-prepares-to-move-to-jerusalem/

Tom Sietsema, “Sababa brings Israeli ‘cool’ to Cleveland Park [Washington, DC],” Wahsington Post, May 30, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/sababa-brings-israeli-cool-to-cleveland-park/2018/05/29/2a3d83c8-52e7-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f390398b62f4

Anav Silverman, “Israel’s Book Surfing phenomenon is making global waves,” Israel21c, May 31, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/israels-booksurfing-phenomenon-is-making-global-waves/

Max Singer, “The “Game” Israel and Iran Must Play in Syria,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, May 8, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-iran-in-syria/

Jonathan Spyer, “Game on: The New Strategy of the US and its allies in the Middle East,” Middle East Forum, May 24, 2018. https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/game-on-the-new-strategy-of-the-us-and-its-allies

Jessica Steinberg, “A one-woman band: How Israel’s Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai rose to fame,” Times of Israel, May 13, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/eurovision-star-netta-barzilai-was-always-destined-for-greatness/

TLVI Staff, “This Week’s Israeli Soundtrack,” TLV1, May 31, 2018. https://tlv1.fm/music/kol-cambridge/2018/05/31/this-weeks-israeli-soundtrack-10/

Sue Surkes, “IMF says Israeli economy robust but social gaps threaten long-term stability,” Times of Israel, May 1, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/imf-says-israeli-economy-robust-but-social-gaps-threaten-long-term-stability/

Richard Vines, “Israel Is the World’s New Dining Hotspot,” Bloomberg, April18, 2018. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-18/israel-s-best-restaurants-by-ottolenghi-and-eyal-shani

David Wainer and Yaacov Benmeleh, “Israel’s $10 Billion Island Project Sparks European Interest,” Bloomberg, May 29, 2018. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-29/israel-s-10-billion-island-project-sparks-european-interest

David Weinberg, “Gaza prejudice and perfidy: What is Western support for “Israel’s right to exist within secure and recognized borders” worth if those borders cannot be defended?” The Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, May 21, 2018. https://jiss.org.il/en/weinberg-gaza-prejudice-and-perfidy/

Michael Wildes, “E Visas: Economic & Cultural Exchange,” Times of Israel, May 22, 2018. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/e-visas-economic-cultural-exchange/

Amos Yadlin, “Hamas incites violence to hide its own shortcomings,” Ynet News, May 14, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5260612,00.html

Ben-Dror Yemini, “Gazans are victims of an ideology of hatred,” Ynet News, May 11, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5252626,00.html

Jim Zanotti, “US Foreign Air to the Palestinians,” Congressional Research Service, May 18, 2018. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS22967.pdf

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

Anna Ahronheim, “Russian Supply of S-300 Systems to Syria Major Threat to IAF,” Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Russian-supply-of-S-300-systems-to-Syria-major-threat-to-IAF-549837 

Shehab al-Makahleh, “Jordan Between Regional Threats and Internal Pressures: The Economic Key,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 11, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/jordan-between-regional-threats-and-internal-pressures-the-economic-key

Shimon Arad, “Israel and United States Military Assistance to Egypt,” INSS, April 29, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-united-states-military-assistance-egypt/?offset=0&posts=1049&type=399

Amiram Barkat, “OECD Exposes a Bipolar Israel,” Globes, March 12, 2018. https://www.globes.co.il/en/article-oecd-exposes-a-bipolar-israel-1001227320

Mordechai Beck, “Classical music gets eastern spice: Israel is embracing sounds from the Arab world,” The Jewish Chronicle, April 17, 2018. https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/arts/classical-music-gets-eastern-spice-1.462571

Burak Bekdil, “Erdoğan vs. the Free Press,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, April 27, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/erdogan-vs-free-press/

Ron Ben-Yishai, “The lessons of the Holocaust and Syria,” YNet News, April 11, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5227509,00.html

Patrick Clawson, “Tactical Issues Surrounding a U.S. Withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Agreement,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/tactical-issues-surrounding-a-u.s.-withdrawal-from-the-iran-nuclear-agreeme

Barry Davis, “Avital’s Bass Flow,” Jerusalem Post, April 25, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Avitals-bass-flow-552693

James Dorsey, “Natural Gas: An Underrated Driver of Saudi Hostility Towards Iran and Qatar,” International Policy Digest, March 28, 2018. https://intpolicydigest.org/2018/03/28/natural-gas-an-underrated-driver-of-saudi-hostility-towards-iran-and-qatar/ 

Shmuel Even, “What Happened to Israel’s Policy of Ambiguity vis-à-vis Syria?” INSS, April 24, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/happened-israels-policy-ambiguity-vis-vis-syria/?offset=2&posts=1049&type=399

Greer Fay Cashman, “Grapevine: Moufleta Politics,” Jerusalem Post, April 10, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Grapevine-Moufleta-politics-549419

Dror Feuer, “Israeli hospitals provide care to thousands of Syrians,” Globes, March 26, 2018. https://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-becomes-health-center-for-syrian-children-1001229351

Chuck Freilich and James F. Jeffrey, “Beyond ‘Mowing the Grass;’ U.S. and Israeli Strategy in the Middle East,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 24, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/beyond-mowing-the-grass-us-and-israeli-strategy-in-the-middle-east

Hillel Frisch, “The Palestinian Way of War: The March of Return in Gaza,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, March 27, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/gaza-march-return/

Yitzhak Gal, “Fruit of Israeli-Jordanian peace still on the tree,” YNet News, March 30, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5209464,00.html

Linda Gradstein, “Why Food Critics Are Obsessing Over Israeli Cuisine,” The Forward, April 18, 2018. https://forward.com/food/399068/why-food-critics-are-obsessing-over-israeli-cuisine/

Michael Herzog, “Israel’s 2007 Strike on Syrian Nuclear Reactor: Lessons Learned for Iran,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 25, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-2007-strike-on-syrian-nuclear-reactor-lessons-learned-for-iran 

Michael Herzog, “The International De-Legitimization Campaign Against Israel: Analysis and Counter Strategy,” Jewish People Policy Institute, March 29, 2018. http://jppi.org.il/new/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/JPPI-De-legitimization_eng.pdf

House of Lords, “The Middle East: Time for New Realism,” House of Lords: Select Committee on International Relations, April 24, 2018 (conclusions, p.92). https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201617/ldselect/ldintrel/159/159.pdf

Efraim Karsh, “How Harry Truman Crossed His Own State Department to Recognize Israel in 1948,” Mosaic, April 16, 2018. https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2018/04/how-harry-truman-crossed-his-own-state-department-to-recognize-israel-in-1948/

Can Kasapoğlu, “Control of the Syrian Airspace: Russian Geopolitical Ambitions and Air Threat Assessment,” SWP Berlin, April 2018. https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2018C14_kpu.pdf

Martin Kramer, “The May 1948 Vote that Made the State of Israel,” Mosaic, April 2, 2018. https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2018/04/the-may-1948-vote-that-made-the-state-of-israel/

Lexi Leban, “10 modern Israeli films to watch on Israel’s 70^th birthday,” J. The Jewish News of Northern California, April 6, 2018. https://www.jweekly.com/2018/04/06/10-modern-israeli-films-watch-israels-70th-birthday/

Liel Leibovitz, “The Seven Quintessentially Israeli Movies,” Tablet, April 19, 2018. http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/260207/the-seven-quintessentially-israeli-movies

Ido Levy, “These 4 Israeli Startups Are Leading Sustainability Efforts In The Food Sector,” No Camels, April 9, 2018.http://nocamels.com/2018/04/4-israeli-startups-sustainability-food/

Avigdor Liberman, “Between Syria and Gaza: Urgent Challenges for Israel’s Security A Discussion with Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 27, 2018. www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/between-syria-and-gaza-urgent-challenges-for-israels-security

Steve Linde, “Israeli, Polish Presidents Fail to Resolve Polish ‘Holocaust Law’ Crisis,” Jerusalem Post, April 13, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Israeli-Polish-presidents-fail-to-resolve-Polish-Holocaust-law-crisis-549706

Michael Margalit, “Israel’s economy strong, gaping inequality remains,” YNet News, March 11, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5156387,00.html

Vibha Maru, “Celebrating 70 years of Israeli Independence in Delhi,” Times of India, April 23, 2018. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/delhi/celebrating-70-years-of-israeli-independence-in-delhi/articleshow/63868907.cms

Guy Plopsky, “Enhancing the IAF’s Qualitative Edge: The Air-Launched Cruise Missile Option,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, April 16, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/enhancing-iafs-qualitative-edge/

Mauro Primavera, “Rami Makhlouf and the Syrian war economy,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, April 25, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/rami-makhlouf-and-syrian-war-economy

Haim Ramon, “It’s Time to end policy of coexistence with Hamas,” YNet News, April 13, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5225030,00.html

Paul Rivlin, “Syria: towards reconstruction or deconstruction?” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, March 2018. https://dayan.org/content/syria-towards-reconstruction-or-deconstruction

Margy Rochlin, “An Israeli chef rediscovers his roots, plus a recipe for shakshouka,” Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2018. http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-fo-co-alon-shaya-cookbook-20180411-htmlstory.html

Neil Rogachevsky, “Self-Portrait (Moshe Arens) of a Zionist Statesman and Thinker,” Mosaic, March 28, 2018. https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2018/03/self-portrait-of-a-zionist-statesman-and-thinker/

Max Schindler, “On 70^th Anniversary, Israel’s Economy Growing as Some Sectors Lag Behind,” Jerusalem Post, April 20, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israels-70th-anniversary/On-70th-anniversary-Israels-economy-growing-as-some-sectors-lag-behind-551303

Penny Schwartz, “7 Treasures from the Library of Congress celebration of Leonard Bernstein,” Times of Israel, April 26, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/7-treasures-from-the-library-of-congress-celebration-of-leonard-bernstein/

Avi Shilon, “Ben-Gurion’s Pragmatic Approach to Borders,” Mosaic, April 23, 2018. https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2018/04/ben-gurions-pragmatic-approach-to-borders/

Phillip Smyth, “Lebanese Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance in Syria,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 26, 2018. www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/lebanese-hezbollahs-islamic-resistance-in-syria  

Shoshana Solomon, “From 1950s rationing to modern high-tech boom: Israel’s economic success story,” Times of Israel, April 18, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/from-1950s-rationing-to-21st-century-high-tech-boom-an-economic-success-story/

Amy Spiro, “Spotify Reveals that Israelis Love Israeli Music,” Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/OMG/Spotify-reveals-that-Israelis-love-Israeli-music-549883

Rebecca Stadlen Amir, “17 Israeli songs to get your Independence Day party moving,” Israel21c, April 12, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/17-israeli-songs-to-get-your-independence-day-party-moving/

Gil Troy, “The Continuing Promise of American Zionism,” Commentary, April 16, 2018. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/continuing-promise-american-zionism/

Yohanan Tzoreff, “From the First Intifada to the ‘March of Return,’” INSS, April 11, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/first-intifada-march-return/?offset=8&posts=1049&type=399

Ehud Yaari, “Bracing for an Israel-Iran Confrontation in Syria,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 30, 2018. www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/bracing-for-an-israel-iran-confrontation-in-syria 

Neri Zilber and Ghaith al-Omari, “State with no Army, Army with no State: Evolution of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces 1994-2018,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/state-with-no-army-army-with-no-state

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

Raphael Ahren, “As Israel fetes Air India flight over Saudi airspace, El Al cries foul,” Times of Israel, March 26, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-israel-fetes-air-india-flight-over-saudi-airspace-el-al-cries-foul/

Meirav Arlossoroff, “When Ben-Gurion saved Israel’s Economy at any Price,” Haaretz, March 23, 2018. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-when-ben-gurion-saved-israel-s-economy-at-any-price-1.5936686

Amoz Asa-El, “Yair Lapid’s Shot at Bringing the Political Center to the Forefront,” Jerusalem Post, March 24, 2018. http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Yair-Lapid-and-the-forbidden-journey-546689

Muhanned Al-Azawi, “Iraq’s Nexus of Sectarianism and Corruption,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 7, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/iraqs-nexus-of-sectarianism-and-corruption

Burak Bekdil, “Turkey’s Syrian Battleground,” March 21, 2018. Middle East Forum, March 21, 2018. https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/turkey’s-syrian-battleground

Ronen Bergman, “Mossad and Syrian reactor: Sometimes you just need a little luck,” YNet News, March 23, 2018.  https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5188268,00.html

Nathalie Boehler, “A collective: The triumph of Israeli independent music,” i24News, March 25, 2018. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/culture/170725-180325-acollective-the-triumph-of-israeli-independent-music

Anna Borchchevskaya, “Moscow and the Middle East After Russia’s Election,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 12, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5176724,00.html

Hannah Brown, “[Movie] 7 Days in Entebbe Misfires,” Jerusalem Post, March 27, 2018. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/7-Days-in-Entebbe-misfires-547261

Daniel L. Byman, “Why Israel is stuck with Hamas,” Brookings Institute, March 19, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/03/19/why-israel-is-stuck-with-hamas

Dan Cattler, “A Survey of the Near East: Implications for U.S. National Security,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy March 13, 2018.  http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/a-survey-of-the-near-east-implications-for-u.s.-national-security

Patrick Clawson, “Expect Assad, Iran, and Russia to Exploit Trump’s Cabinet Changes,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 19, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/expect-assad-iran-and-russia-to-exploit-trumps-cabinet-changes

Barry Davis, “Music Back in the Day, Today,” Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2018.  www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Music-back-in-the-day-today-546849

Oded Eran, Elai Rettig, Ofir Winter, “The Gas Deal with Egypt: Israel Deepens its Anchor in the Eastern Mediterranean,” INSS, March 12, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/gas-deal-egypt-israel-deepens-anchor-eastern-mediterranean/?offset=4&posts=1038&type=399

Shmuel Even, “The Ministry of Defense Budget for 2019: Major Issues,” INSS, March 18, 2018. www.inss.org.il/publication/ministry-defense-budget-2019-major-issues/?offset=2&posts=1038&type=399

Ben Fishman and Ghaith al-Omari, “The Jordan Exception in U.S. Foreign Assistance,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 7, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-jordan-exception-in-u.s.-foreign-assistance

Shai Feldman and Tamara Cofman Wittes, “Why everyone loves Israel now,” Brookings Institute, March 26, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/03/26/why-everyone-loves-israel-now/

Seth Frantzman, “Pompeo’s challenge: After Tillerson, a consistent US policy in the Middle East,” Middle East Forum, March 16, 2018. https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/pompeo-s-challenge-after-tillerson,-a-consistent

Assaf Kamar, “Turning the desert green and red,” Ynet News, March 22, 2018.  https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5187505,00.html

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Capitol Records signs $5m deal with Israeli singing duo,” Israel21c, March 26, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/capitol-records-signs-5m-deal-with-israeli-singing-duo/

Shalom Lipner, “Israel’s broken (political) system needs to be fixed,” Brookings Institute, March 22, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/03/22/israels-broken-system-needs-to-be-fixed/

Michal Margalit, “Israel’s economy strong, gaping inequality remains,” Ynet News, March 11, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5156387,00.html

Margaux Nijkerk, “Why it is Time for a Stronger French-Israeli Connection,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 15, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/why-it-is-time-for-a-stronger-french-israeli-connection

Smadar Perry, “The Americans, the Saudis and the irrelevant Palestinian leader,” YNet News, March 20, 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5176724,00.html

Daniel Pipes, “Why Palestinians Need an Israel Victory,” Middle East Forum, March 24, 2018. https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/why-palestinians-need-an-israel-victory

Itama Radai, “Al-Madaniyyat: A New Civil Agenda for Arabs in Israel?” Bayan, The Dayan,” March 2018. https://dayan.org/content/al-madaniyyat-new-civil-agenda-arabs-israel

Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch, “Turkey-Iran Rivalry: The Middle East’s Great New Game,” EastWest.ngo, March 14, 2018. https://www.eastwest.ngo/idea/turkey-iran-rivalry-middle-east%E2%80%99s-new-great-game

Uzi Rubin, “The Strategic Implications of Effective Population Defense Against Ballistic Missiles,” BESA Center, March 21, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/strategic-ballistic-missile-defense/

Bassel F. Salloukh, “The Arab Uprisings and the Geopolitics of the Middle East,” The International Spectator, June 2013. http://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/salloukh.pdf

Max Schindler, “Trump’s Tariffs Pose Destabilizing Threat to Israeli Economy,” Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2018. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Trumps-tariffs-pose-destabilizing-threat-to-Israel-economy-544635

Ariel Shapira, “Tech Talk: South Korea Invests in Israeli Technology,” Jerusalem Post, March 20, 2018. www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/Tech-Talk-South-Korea-invests-in-Israeli-technology-546618

Shoshana Solomon, “Arab Israeli women make inroads in education, job market, study says,” Times of Israel, March 4, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-israeli-women-make-inroads-in-education-job-market-study-says/

Amy Spiro, “At 70: From Jaffa Oranges to Gourmet Shakshuka,” Jerusalem Post, March 11, 2018. www.jpost.com/Opinion/At-70-From-Jaffa-oranges-to-gourmet-shakshuka-544623

Shimon Stein, “German-Israel Relations,” INSS, March 7, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/germany-israel-relations-unique-normal/

Kenneth Stein, “Two State Solution: Why Not Now? Center for Israel Education, March 2, 2018. http://www.peaceindex.org/indexMonthEng.aspx?num=330&monthname=March

Luke Tress, “As ‘Day Zero’ looms, South Africa open to Israeli water tech, researcher says,” Times of Israel, March 8, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-day-zero-looms-south-africa-open-to-israeli-tech-researcher-says/

Benjamin Weinthal and Asaf Romirowksy, “Iran’s Role in the Boycott Israel,” National Interest, March 15, 2018. http://nationalinterest.org/feature/irans-role-the-boycott-israel-campaign-24931?page=show

Amos Yadin, “The Begin Doctrine: The Lessons of Osirak and Deir ex-Zor,” INSS, March 21, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-begin-doctrine-the-lessons-of-osirak-and-deir-ez-zor/

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

Shimon Arad, “Trump’s National Security Strategy: US and Israeli Viewpoints Converge,” BESA Center, February 4, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/trump-security-strategy-israel/

Brian Blum, “‘Netflix for virtual reality’ targets your living room,” Israel 21c, February 8, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/netflix-for-virtual-reality-targets-your-living-room/

Hannah Brown, “Israel Film Fund Director Schory Celebrated at Berlin Film Festival,” Jerusalem Post, February 24, 2018. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israel-Film-Fund-director-Schory-celebrated-at-Berlin-film-festival-543513

Eric Cortellessa and TOI Staff, “US Embassy in Jerusalem to open in May – In time for Israel’s 70^th Anniversary,” Times of Israel,  February 24, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-to-move-embassy-to-jerusalem-on-may-14-day-of-independence-declaration/

Michael Curtis, “Failing Support for Israel among U.S. Democrats,” American Thinker, February 1, 2018. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/failing_support_for_israel_among_us_democrats.html

Udi Dekel, “Israel at 70: Strategic Advantages with Narrow Margins of Security,” INSS, February 8, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-70-strategic-advantages-narrow-margins-security/?offset=11&posts=1029&type=399

Udi Dekel, “The War in Syria: Advancing Toward a New Stage?” INSS, February 21, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/the-war-in-syria-advancing-toward-a-new-stage/?offset=3&posts=1029&type=399

Jackson Doering, “Washington’s Militia Problem in Syria is an Iran Problem,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 19, 2018.  http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/washingtons-militia-problem-in-syria-is-an-iran-problem

Giora Eiland, “To Prevent a war, Israel must create an Assad-Iran rift,” Y-Net, February 20, 2018.  https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5114884,00.html

Avner Golov, “Trump Administration Policy and American Public Opinion: Implications for Israel,” INSS, February 19, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/trump-administration-policy-american-public-opinion-implications-israel/?offset=5&posts=1029&type=399

Gerson Hacohen, “Mahmoud Abba’s Speech: Who was the Real Audience?” BESA Center, February 12, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/mahmoud-abbas-speech/

Simon Henderson, “Saudi Nuclear Power Plants and the Danger of Proliferation,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 28, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/saudi-nuclear-power-plants-and-the-danger-of-proliferation

Pinhas Inbari, “Can Palestinian Ports Be Developed in Gaza to Relieve the Humanitarian Crisis,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 6, 2018. http://jcpa.org/article/can-palestinian-ports-developed-gaza-relieve-humanitarian-crisis/

Dr. Doron Itzchakov, “Iran’s New Anti-Israel ‘Resistance Axis,’” BESA Center, February 20, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-anti-israel-resistance/

Ephraim Kam, The Iranian Military Intervention in Syria: A Look to the Future,” Strategic Assessment INSS, January 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/adkan21-1ENG_3-21-32.pdf

Mara Karlin, “Israel’s Coming War With Hezbollah: A New Conflict May Be Inevitable,” Foreign Affairs, February 21, 2018. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/israel/2018-02-21/israels-coming-war-hezbollah

Yocheved Laufer, “Quality Culture Comes to Eilat with the International Chamber Music Festival,” Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2018. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Quality-culture-comes-to-Eilat-with-the-International-Chamber-Music-Festival-540768

Abigail Klein Leichman, “14 Israelis making a mark on London’s tech scene,” Israel 21c, February 21, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/14-israelis-making-a-mark-on-londons-tech-scene/

Ido Levy, “Kibbutz Economy: How Israeli Collective Communities Near Gaza Are Becoming High-Tech Hubs,” No Camels, February 7, 2018. http://nocamels.com/2018/02/kibbutz-becoming-high-tech-hubs/

Zvi Magen, “Israel’s Engagement in Syria: Cause and Significance,” INSS, February 14, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/No.-1020.pdf

David Makovsky, “The Netanyahu Probe and the Court of Public Opinion,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 15, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-netanyahu-probe-and-the-court-of-public-opinion

Clifford May, “Israel, the Palestinians, and the Administration’s Peace Plan,” House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Hearings, February 14, 2018. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA13/20180214/106859/HHRG-115-FA13-Wstate-MayC-20180214.pdf

Kobi Michael and Ofir Winter, “Has the Palestinian Authority Abandoned the Principle of the Two State Solution,” Tel Aviv Notes, Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, February 14, 2018. https://dayan.org/content/has-palestinian-authority-abandoned-principle-two-state-solution

Kobi Michael and Yoel Guzansky, “The Dangers of Failing Middle East States,” The Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2018. http://www.meforum.org/7222/failing-middle-east-states

Amir Mizroch, “What The World’s Top 10 Tech Firms Have In Common,” Forbes, February 20, 2018. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startupnationcentral/2018/02/20/what-the-worlds-top-10-tech-firms-have-in-common/#1548aba22b3a

Hassan Al-Mustafa, “Change in Saudi Arabia is a fact and not just wishes,” al-Arabiya, February 5, 2018. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2018/02/05/Change-in-Saudi-Arabia-is-a-fact-and-not-just-wishes.html

Ghaith al-Omari, “Abbas at the Security Council,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 20, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/abbas-at-the-security-council

Kadira Pethiyagoda, “Is it time for India to play a role in Israeli-Palestinian peace?” Brookings Institution, February 22, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/02/22/is-it-time-for-india-to-play-a-role-in-israeli-palestinian-peace/

Pew Research Center, “Republicans and Democrats Grow Even Further Apart in Views of Israel, Palestinians,” January 23, 2018. http://www.people-press.org/2018/01/23/republicans-and-democrats-grow-even-further-apart-in-views-of-israel-palestinians/

Daniel Pipes, “The US-Israel Honeymoon May Not Last,” Washington Times, February 6, 2018. http://www.danielpipes.org/18202/the-us-israel-honeymoon-may-not-last?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=bf21ca4325-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-bf21ca4325-33581441

Louis Rene Beres, “Surviving Donald Trump: Israel’s Strategic Options,” BESA Center, February 2, 2018., https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/144-Monograph-Beres-Surviving-Donald-Trump-cover-and-text.pdf

Dennis Ross, “After the Weekend’s Iran-Israel Attacks, a Burden on Trump to Confront Russia and Engage Europe,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 12, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/after-the-weekends-iran-israel-attacks-a-burden-on-trump-to-confront-russia

Natan Sachs, “The two things that will determine Netanyahu’s fate,” Brookings Institution, February 15, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/02/15/the-two-things-that-will-determine-netanyahus-fate/

Daniel Shapiro, Ghaith al-Omari, “Israel, the Palestinians and the Administration’s Peace Plan,” House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Hearings, February 14, 2018. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA13/20180214/106859/HHRG-115-FA13-Wstate-al-OmariG-20180214.pdf

Amy Spiro, “Paul McCartney Among 9 Wolf Prize Recipients,” Jerusalem Post, February 12, 2018. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Paul-McCartney-among-9-Wolf-Prize-recipients-542404

Rebecca Stadlen Amir, “Israeli star Shiri Maimon is headed for Broadway,” Israel 21c, February 4, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-star-shiri-maimon-is-headed-for-broadway/

Nathan Stock, “The Palestinian president’s predicament,” Middle East Institute, February 14, 2018. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/palestinian-presidents-predicament

Adeena Sussman, “It’s Not Just Salad, It’s Salatim,” Taste, January 30, 2018. https://www.tastecooking.com/not-just-salad-salatim/

TOI Staff, “David Grossman, critic of Israeli policies, awarded Israel Prize for literature,” Times of Israel, February 12, 2018.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/renowned-author-david-grossman-wins-israel-prize-for-literature/

U.S Department of State, Opening of US Embassy in Jerusalem, February 23, 2018, https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/02/278825.htm

Neil Zilber and Gaith Al-Omari, “The Hush-Hush Deal That Keeps the Middle East From Exploding,” Daily Beast, February 12, 2018. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hush-hush-deal-that-keeps-the-middle-east-from-exploding

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

Taisir Amre, “A Palestinian Offer to Share Jerusalem,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 17, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/is-dividing-jerusalem-the-key-to-peace

Shimon Arad, “Getting to the Table: Key Elements of the US Approach to Restart the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations.” INSS, January 16, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/getting-table-key-elements-us-approach-restart-israeli-palestinian-peace-negotiations/

Dany Bahar and Natan Sachs, “How much does BDS threaten Israel’s economy?” Brookings Institute, January 26, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/01/26/how-much-does-bds-threaten-israels-economy/

Michael Barak, “’The New Balfour Declaration:’ Trump’‎s Speech as Reflected in Palestinian Discourse,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, December 2017. https://www.wsj.com/articles/hezbollah-has-destroyed-the-lebanon-i-once-knew-1517175520

Heidi Basch-Harod, “#Ana Kaman [the effect of the #MeToo movement on the Middle East],” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, January 10, 2018.  https://dayan.org/content/anakaman

Brian Blum, “Israeli Auto-Tech, Robotics, Photonics Light up Las Vegas,” Jerusalem Post, January 15, 2018.  http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-auto-tech-robotics-photonics-light-up-Las-Vegas-536828

Nir Boms and Shayan Arya “The Unraveling Islamic Republic,” US News and World Report, January 18, 2018. https://www.usnews.com/opinion/world-report/articles/2018-01-18/iran-is-crumbling-from-the-inside?src=usn_fb

Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, “The Unity of Jerusalem in the Shadow of Corruption Charges” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, December 2017.  https://dayan.org/content/unity-jerusalem-shadow-corruption-charges

James M. Dorsey, “Iranian Protests Reveal Leadership Fault Lines in the Muslim World,” BESA Center, January 16, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iranian-protests-leadership-fault-lines-muslim-world/

Michael Eisenstat, “Regional Pushback, Nuclear Rollback A Comprehensive Strategy for an Iran in Turmoil,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/regional-pushback-nuclear-rollback-a-comprehensive-strategy-for-an-iran-in

Florence Fabricant, “Eyal Shani, an Israeli Celebrity Chef, Makes His New York Debut,” New York Times, January 8, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/dining/eyal-shani-miznon-restaurant-nyc.html

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, “Religion in the IDF: The Struggle over Israeli Public Space,” BESA Center, January 22, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/idf-religion/

Peter Huessy, “Will the Mullahs’ Missiles Backfire?” BESA Center, January 26, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/ballistic-missiles-iran/

i24News Staff, “Record-breaking 3.6 million tourists visited Israel in 2017,” i24News, January 2, 2018. http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/164187-180102-record-breaking-3-6-million-tourists-visited-israel-in-2017

INSS Staff, “Now is Not the Time to Withdraw from the Nuclear Agreement, Rather, the Time to Demand its Full Implementation,” INSS, January 11, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/now-not-time-withdraw-nuclear-agreement-rather-time-demand-full-implementation/

Avi Issacharoff, “As [Gaza] economy crumbles and with ‘nothing to lose,’ war in Gaza grows likely,” Times of Israel, January 4, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-economy-crumbles-and-with-nothing-to-lose-war-in-gaza-grows-likely/

Jewish News Syndicate, “Israel’s Annual Exports Expected to Pass $100 Billion for First Time,” The Algemeiner, January 4, 2018. https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/01/04/israels-annual-exports-expected-to-pass-100-billion-for-first-time/

Debra Kamin, “New generation of Arabic-singing Israelis move charts,” al-Monitor, January 2, 2018. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/01/arabic-singing-israelis-move-charts.html

Efraim Karsh,  “Turks and Arabs Welcomed the Balfour Declaration “A Jewish National Home,” 100 Years On,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2017, http://www.meforum.org/6991/turks-arabs-welcomed-the-balfour-declaration

Abigail Klein Leichman, “7 Israeli Singer to Watch in 2018,” Jerusalem Post and Israel21c, January 10, 2018. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/7-Israeli-singers-to-watch-in-2018-533415

Abigail Klein Leichman, “Why Israel rocks at commercializing academic innovations,” Israel21c, January 18, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/why-israel-rocks-at-commercializing-academic-innovations/

Lifeway Research, “Evangelical Attitudes Toward Israel Research Study Evangelical Attitudes Towards Israel and the Peace Process,” Lifeway Research, December 2017 (full survey). http://lifewayresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Evangelical-Attitudes-Toward-Israel-Research-Study-Report.pdf

Lifeway Research, “Support of Israel Wanes Among Younger Evangelicals,” Lifeway Research December 4, 2017. http://lifewayresearch.com/2017/12/04/support-of-israel-among-younger-evangelicals/

Shalom Lipner, “Forget the ultimate deal. The Mideast needs the status quo.” Brookings Institute, January 24, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/01/24/forget-the-ultimate-deal-the-mideast-needs-the-status-quo/

David Makovsky, “Abbas Still Faces Unattractive Alternatives to Peacemaking,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 16, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/abbas-still-faces-unattractive-alternatives-to-peacemaking

Grigory Melamedov, “Russia’s Entrenchment in Syria Moscow’s Middle East Resurgence,” The Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2018. http://www.meforum.org/7058/russia-entrenchment-in-syria

Mohamed Mokhtar Qandil, “How Terrorist Groups Use Jerusalem,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 25, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/how-terrorist-groups-use-jerusalem

Magnus Norell, “Is there a Coherent EU Policy Towards the Iran Crisis?” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 5, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/is-there-a-coherent-eu-policy-towards-the-iranian-crisis

Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Raphael Ofek, “Egypt’s Nuclear Deal with Russia,” BESA Center, January 8, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/egypts-nuclear-deal-russia/

S. Samuel C. Rajiv, “India and Israel: Strategic Partners on the Move,” BESA Center, January 20, 2018. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/india-israel-strategic-partners/

Paul Rivlin, “What Saudi Arabia, Iran and Tunisia have in common: The Economy, Stupid!” Iqtisadi, January 25 2018. https://dayan.org/content/what-saudi-arabia-iran-and-tunisia-have-common-economy-stupid

Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch, “The Islamic Scramble for Jerusalem,” Australian Strategic Policy Institute, January 16, 2018. https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/islamic-scramble-jerusalem/

Robert Satloff, “A Historic Holocaust Awareness Awakening in Saudi Arabia, of All Places,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and New York Daily News, January 26, 2018. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/a-historic-holocaust-awareness-awakening-in-saudi-arabia-of-all-places

Pnina Sharvit Baruch, “Implications of the Application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria,” INSS, January 8, 2018. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/implications-application-israeli-sovereignty-judea-samaria/

Mohamed Soliman, “Cairo and the Reconfiguration of the Palestinian Landscape,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 8, 2017 http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/cairo-and-the-reconfiguration-of-the-palestinian-landscape

Eli Sperling and Ken Stein, “Cooperation Continues Between Saudis, Israel,” Atlanta Jewish Times, January 9, 2018. http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/cooperation-continues-between-saudis-israel/

Ken Stein, “Remarks by American Officials on Zionism, Israel, and the US-Israel Relationship, 1947-2018,” January 2018. https://israeled.org/american-officials-zionism-israel-us-israeli-relationship-1947-2018/

Amy Spiro, “[Israeli Film] ‘Foxtrot’ Director: Oscar Snub was Painful,” Jerusalem Post, January 24, 2018. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Foxtrot-director-Oscar-snub-was-painful-539697

Rebecca Stadlen Amir, “New nanomedicine could prevent progression of pancreatic cancer,”

Israel21c, January 21, 2018. https://www.israel21c.org/new-nanomedicine-could-prevent-progression-of-pancreatic-cancer/

Amarelle Wenkert, “[Israeli] Lab-Grown Meat Startup SuperMeat Raises $3 Million,” Ctech, January 3, 2018.  https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3728817,00.html

Einat Wilf, “Anti-Feminism and Anti-Zionism,” Tablet, January 9, 2017. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/252810/anti-feminism-and-anti-zionism

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

 

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

Adam Abrams, “Israeli Economy Flexes its Muscle: Shekel Deemed World’s 2nd-Strongest Currency,” Algemeiner, November 15, 2017.https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/11/15/israeli-economy-flexes-its-muscle-shekel-deemed-worlds-2nd-strongest-currency/

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, “The U.S. Must Rethink its Yemen Policy,” Middle East Forum, November 24, 2017.  http://www.meforum.org/7038/us-must-rethink-yemen-policy

Muriel Asseburg, “The Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation Agreement of October 2017,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Berlin, November 2017. https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2017C44_ass.pdf

Michael Barak, “The Demise of Islamism in Egypt? – The Dissolution of al-Gamaʿa al-Islamiyya’s ‘Building and Development’ Party,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, November 17, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/demise-islamism-egypt-dissolution-al-gamaʿa-al-islamiyya’s-building-and-development-party  

Ron Ben Yishai, “The real Iranian threat on Israel’s northern borders,” Y-Net News, November 16, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5043700,00.html

Howard Blum, “What Trump Really Told Kislyak After Comey was Canned [Israeli sources compromised?,]” Vanity Fair, November 22, 2017. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Yohanan Branski, “Integrating without Changing: Military Service as a Catalyst for Haredi Integration in Israeli Society,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, October 31, 2017. http://jiss.org.il/en/haredi-integration/

Ben Brantley, “Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ is a Ravishing Musical that Whispers with Romance,” New York Times, November 9, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/theater/the-bands-visit-review-broadway-tony-shalhoub.html

Richard L. Cravatts, “Normalizing Anti-Semitism on Campus,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, November 12, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/campus-antisemitism/

Udi Dekel and Zvi Magen, “Israel’s Red Lines on Iran’s Foothold in Syria,” INSS, November 22, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/israels-red-lines-irans-foothold-syria/

James M. Dorsey, “As Saudi Arabia Reels, the Middle East will Only Get Worse,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, November 10, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/saudi-arabia-arrests-reform/

Meir Elran, Muhammaed Abu Nasra, Eran Yashiv, Morsi Abu Moche, “Two Years into the Five-Year Plan for Economic Development of the Arabs in Israel,” INSS, November 23, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/two-years-five-year-plan-economic-development-arabs-israel/?offset=2&posts=995

Oded Eran, “Will Changes in Riyadh lead to new era in Israel-Saudi relations,” Ynet News, November 10, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5040673,00.html

Sarah Feuer (ed.), Beyond Islamists and Autocrats Prospects for Political Reform Post Arab Spring, a compiled series, introduction with chapters Overview, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Bahrain, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Libya, Palestinians, Syria , Kuwait, and Conclusion. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/beyond-islamists-and-autocrats-prospects-for-political-reform-post-arab-spr

Alex Fishman, “Why Russia must take Israel’s interests into account [in Syria],” Ynet News, November 22, 2017.  https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5046414,00.html

Yaron Friedman, “Why is Saudi Arabia so determined to destroy Hezbollah,” Ynet News, November 12, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5041615,00.html

Yaron Friedman, “Iranian military force taking shape right under Israel’s nose,” Ynet News, November 14, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5042133,00.html

Hanin Ghaddar, “Lebanon’s Prime Minister Resigns: What Next? Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 6, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/lebanons-prime-minister-resigns-whats-next

Jessica Halfin, “Jewish Israeli songster cuts first album-all in Arabic,” Israel 21C, November 23, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/jewish-israeli-songster-cuts-first-album-all-in-arabic/

Simon Henderson, “How the War in Yemen Explains the Future of Saudi Arabia,” The Atlantic, November 8, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/saudi-arabia-iran-yemen-houthi-salman/545336/

Tamar Herman, “IDF Report Card – The Israelis Still believe that the IDF should be the People’s Army and Want Ultra-orthodox People to Enlist,” Israel Democracy Institute, November 8, 2017. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/18949

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, “Should the U.S. Military Stay in Syria after ISIS?” Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2017. www.meforum.org/7050/should-us-military-stay-in-syria-after-isis

Alex Joffe, “Palestinians and Internationalization: Means and Ends,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, November 26, 2017.https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/palestinians-internationalization-means-ends/

Efraim Karsh, “Arabs and Turks Welcomed the Balfour Declaration,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, November 8, 2017. https://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/arabs-turks-balfour-declaration/

Mordechai Kedar, “The Ten Commandments for Israeli negotiations with Saudi Arabia,” Arutz Sheva, November 20, 2017. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/21287

Isabel Kershner, “Sabbath Railway Work in Israel Shakes Netanyahu’s Coalition,” New York Times, November 26, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/world/middleeast/israel-government-benjamin-netanyahu.html?_r=0

Hilal Khashan, “For Saudi Arabia, All Politics Is Local,” Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2017. www.meforum.org/7035/for-saudi-arabia-all-politics-is-local

Rachel Khong, “Why Modern Israeli Food is America’s New Favorite Cuisine,” Thrillist, November 6, 2017. https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/israeli-food-americans

Martin Kramer, “Who Saved Israel in 1947? [Stalin],” Mosaic, November 2017. https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2017/11/who-saved-israel-in-1947/

Martin Kramer, “Why the 1947 UN Partition Resolution Must Be Celebrated,” Mosaic, November 2017. https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2017/11/the-un-partition-vote-in-november-1947-was-important-but-not-crucial/

Yaakov Lappin, “With Iran on Its Doorstep, Israel Quietly Readies Game-Changing Air Power, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, November 21, 2017.  https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-doorstep-israel-readies-air-power/

Eran Lerman, “Israeli Sovereignty in Jerusalem as a Key to Regional Stability,” The Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, October 31, 2017. http://jiss.org.il/en/lerman-israels-sovereign-status-jerusalem-key-regional-stability/

David Makovsky, “When International Guarantees Utterly Failed,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 4, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/when-international-guarantees-utterly-failed

Ahmad Majidyar, “After ISIS, Fatemiyoun Vows to Fight with “Axis of Resistance” to Destroy Israel,” Middle East Institute, November 22, 2017. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/io/after-isis-fatemiyoun-vows-fight-axis-resistance-destroy-israel

David Makovsky and Dennis Ross, “Toward A New Paradigm for Addressing The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 2017.   http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/Transition2017-MEPP.pdf

Thomas R. McCabe, “Are Returning Jihadists a Major Threat? Jihad in the West,” Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2017. www.meforum.org/6895/are-returning-jihadists-a-major-threat

Obi Michael, Omer Dostri, “Destroying the Tunnel: Preserving Deterrence while Preventing Escalatation,” INSS, November 9, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/destroying-tunnel-preserving-deterrence-preventing-escalation/?offset=6&posts=995

Michał Prawdzik, “The Iran – Russia Nexus Development of Bilateral Relations (2012-2017),” Deutsches Orient Institut, April 2017. http://www.deutsche-orient-stiftung.de/index.php/en/publications/studien/cat_view/165-dos/166-publikationen/168-doi-kurzanalysen?orderby=dmdate_published&ascdesc=DESC&limitstart=0

Paul Rivlin, “The Saudi Sheikh Up,” Moshe Dayan Center, November 27, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/saudi-sheikh

Arik Rudnitzky, “The Palestinian Arabs in Israel: Reconceptualizing the Past,” Moshe Dayan Center, October 30, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/palestinian-arabs-israel-reconceptualizing-past-0

Arik Rudnitzky, “The National Stream and the Jewish State: A Picture of the Current Situation (with Israel’s Arab population),” Moshe Dayan Center, October 15, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/national-stream-and-jewish-state-picture-current-situation

Abdel-Moneim Said, “Realities on the Ground (two states will come),” Al-Ahram Weekly, October 26-November 1, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/22804.aspx

Liza Schoenfein, “In Search of Israeli Cuisine? Now You Can Find it on Netflix,” Forward, November 1, 2017. https://forward.com/food/386695/in-search-of-israeli-cuisine-now-you-can-find-it-on-netflix/

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, “The “Ottoman Balfour Declaration” “A Jewish National Home,” 100 Years On,” Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2017. www.meforum.org/7017/the-ottoman-balfour-declaration

Eldad Shavit and Yoel Guzansky, “The Hariri Resignation:  Lebanon in the Shadow of the Saudi-Iranian Conflict, INSS, November 6, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/hariri-resignation-lebanon-shadow-saudi-iranian-conflict/

Shoshanna Solomon, “Israel paves way to boost energy ties to Africa,” Times of Israel, November 28, 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-paves-way-to-boost-energy-ties-to-africa/

Eli Sperling, “[Israeli] Music Showcase Highlights Jewish Cultural Traditions,” Atlanta Jewish Times, November 28, 2017. http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/music-showcase-highlights-jewish-cultural-traditions/

Jonathan Spyer, “Tehran is Winning the War for Control of the Middle East,” Foreign Policy, November 21, 2017.  http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/21/tehran-is-winning-the-war-for-control-of-the-middle-east-saudi-arabia/

Sheetal Srivastava, “Israeli technology to transform Indian agriculture,” Economic Times, November 22, 2017. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/israeli-technology-to-transform-indian-agriculture/articleshow/61752914.cms

Ken Stein, “Sadat’s Leadership Included the Jerusalem Visit,” Times of Israel, November 21, 2017. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/sadats-leadership-included-the-jerusalem-visit-2/

Timeout Staff, “Five questions with Ethiopian-Israeli musician Abae Barihun,” Timeout, November 21, 2017. https://www.timeout.com/israel/blog/five-questions-with-ethiopian-israeli-musician-abate-barihun-112117

Dr. George N. Tzogopoulos, “AFD: A New Hurdle in the German-Israeli Relationship?” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, November 28, 2017.https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/afd-germany-israel-antisemitism/

Moshe Ya’alon, “United States Policy in the Middle East: The Need for a Grand Strategy,” INSS, November 28, 2017.  http://www.inss.org.il/publication/united-states-policy-middle-east-need-grand-strategy/?offset=0&posts=995

Amos Yadlin, Yoel Guzansky, “Saudi Arabia in an Accelerated and Risky Process of Transformation,” INSS, November 14, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/saudi-arabia-accelerated-risky-process-transformation/?offset=5&posts=995