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#56 Contemporary Readings, October 2017
November 2, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Gwen Ackerman, “In Israel Ultra-Orthodox Women Emerge as Tech Entrepreneurs,” Bloomberg, October 16, 2017. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-17/in-israel-ultra-orthodox-women-emerge-as-tech-entrepreneurs
Raphael Ahren, “UNESCO-Affiliated Scholars Slam Agency’s Anti-Israel Bias, Plead for Rethink,” The Times of Israel, October 22, 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/unesco-affiliated-scholars-slam-agencys-anti-israel-bias-plead-for-rethink/
David Albright, “Confronting the Full Range of Iranian Threats,” Institute for Science and International Security testimony to House Foreign Affairs Committee, October 11, 2017. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20171011/106500/HHRG-115-FA00-Wstate-AlbrightD-20171011.pdf
Dan Arbell, “The Domestic Considerations Behind Israel’s Support of Iran Deal de-certification,” Brookings, October 13, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/10/13/the-domestic-considerations-behind-israels-support-of-iran-deal-de-certification/
Ami Ayalon, Gilad Sher, Orni Petruschka, “Fatah-Hamas reconciliation: Both challenge and opportunity,” Y-Net, October 19, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5030871,00.html
Nahum Barnea, “Trump’s Iran strategy presents new kind of challenge for Israel, Y-Net, October 15, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5028415,00.html
Yoni Ben Menachem, “A Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation. Has Anything Changed?”
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, October 3, 2017. http://jcpa.org/publication/jerusalem-issue-briefs/
Ron Ben-Yishai, “Intentional Syrian fire aimed at deterring Israel without waging war,” Y-Net, October 23, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5032357,00.html
Eyal Bino, “Introducing the New Generation of Israeli VC,” Forbes, October 3, 2017. https://www.forbes.com/sites/eyalbino/2017/10/03/introducing-the-new-generation-of-isaeli-vc/#bf2085bcc0bc
Shlomo Brom, “The New Reconciliation Agreement: A Turning Point in the Palestinian Arena?,” INSS, October 17, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/new-reconciliation-agreement-turning-point-palestinian-arena/?offset=6&posts=986&type=399
Omer Carmi, “Deconstructing and Countering the Iran Threat Network,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy analysis/view/deconstructing-and-countering-irans-threat-network
Udi Dekel and Carmit Valensi, “The Iranian Threat in Syria: As Bad as It Seems,” INSS, August 23, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/iranian-threat-syria-bad-seems/
Khaled Elgindy, “What’s different about the latest Palestinian reconciliation effort?” Brookings, October 9, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/10/09/whats-different-about-the-latest-palestinian-reconciliation-effort/
Shmuel Even, “New Rewards for IDF “Spearhead Fighters” in Mandatory Military Service,” INSS, October 1, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/new-rewards-idf-spearhead-fighters-mandatory-military-service/?offset=10&posts=986&type=399
Hanin Ghaddar, “Shia Unrest in Hezbollah’s Beirut Stronghold,” Washington
Institute for Near East Policy, October 30, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/shia-unrest-in-hezbollahs-beirut-stronghold
Jennifer Greenberg, “In the Blink of an Eye,” Jerusalem Post, October 10, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/In-the-blink-of-an-eye-507152
Olli Heinonen, Mark Wallace and Philip Gordon, “The President’s Iran Decision: Next Steps,” Testimony to House Foreign Affairs Committee, Middle East Subcommittee Hearing, October 25, 2017. https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-presidents-iran-decision-next-steps/
Israel 21c Staff, “Israeli capital-raising reaches quarterly record of $1.44b,” Israel 21c, October 25, 2017.https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-capital-raising-reaches-quarterly-record-of-1-44b/
James E. Jeffrey, “Confronting The Full Range of Iranian Threats,” Testimony to House Foreign Affairs Committee, October 11, 2017. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20171011/106500/HHRG-115-FA00-Wstate-JeffreyJ-20171011.pdf
Vinay Kaura, “The Dynamics of Saudi-Russian Relations,” BESA Center, October 22, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/dynamics-saudi-russian-relations/
Richard Kemp, “Hezbollah’s Terror Army: How to Prevent a Third Lebanon War,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 27, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hezbollahs-terror-army-how-to-prevent-a-third-lebanon-war
Michael Knights, “How to Contain and Roll Back Iranian-Backed Militias,” October 4, 2017, http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20171004/106468/HHRG-115-FA18-Wstate-KnightsM-20171004.pdf
Shalom Lipner, “Is Trump Ruining the U.S.-Israeli Relationship?” Brookings, October 10, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/10/10/is-trump-ruining-the-u-s-israeli-relationship/
Zvi Magen, “King Salman’s Visit to Moscow: Affirmation of Russian Influence in the Middle East,” INSS, October 18, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/king-salmans-visit-moscow-affirmation-russian-influence-middle-east/?offset=5&posts=986&type=399
David Makovsky, “The U.S. Role in Palestinian Reconciliation: Three Scenarios,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 20, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-u.s.-role-in-palestinian-reconciliation-three-scenarios
Gil Murciano, “Israel vis-à-vis Iran in Syria: The Perils of Active Containment,” SWP Comments, October 2017. https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2017C41_mco.pdf
Laurie Mylroie, “Ankara’s Muted Response to the Kurdistan Region’s Independence Referendum and the International and Regional Context,” Dayan Center, October 23, 2017. http://dayan.org/file/20413/download?token=32BnXtfw
David Pollock, “Egyptians Surprisingly Open to Key Trump Policies, New Poll Shows,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 12, 2017, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/egyptians-surprisingly-open-to-key-trump-policies-new-poll-shows
Kenneth M. Pollack, “Facing the Iranian Challenge in the Middle East: The Role of Iranian-Backed Militias, October 4, 2017, http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20171004/106468/HHRG-115-FA18-Wstate-PollackK-20171004.pdf
Cathryn Prince, “New York’s Power Plants Now Protected, Using Israel’s Iron Dome Technology,” The Times of Israel, October 29, 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-yorks-power-plants-now-protected-using-israels-iron-dome-technology/
Eitan Regev, “Get a Degree, Find a Job? Not so Fast,” The Times of Israel, October 23, 2017. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/get-a-degree-find-a-job-not-so-fast/
Paul Rivlin, “Kurdistan’s Economic Woes,” The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, October 30, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/kurdistan-economic-woes
Arik Rudnitzky, “The Palestinian Arabs in Israel: Conceptualizing the Past,” The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, September 5, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/palestinian-arabs-israel-reconceptualizing-past-0
Abdel-Momen Said, “Realities on the Ground, (resolution to Palestinian-Israeli Conflict is all but inevitable),” Al Ahram Weekly, October 26 – 1 November 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/22804.aspx
Robert Satloff, “Operation Torch and the Birth of the American Middle East Policy, 75 Years On,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 9, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/operation-torch-and-the-birth-of-american-middle-east-policy-75-years-on
Jonathan Schanzer, “Ending America’s Paralyzed Iran Policy,” The Atlantic, October 11, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/iran-nuclear-deal-trump-decertification/542520/
Max Schindler, “Israel Sets up First Hi-Tech Accelerator Program in China,” Jerusalem Post, October 2, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-sets-up-first-hi-tech-accelerator-program-in-China-506526
Yaron Schneider, “The Limits of Restraint: Hamas in Gaza and a Confrontation with Israel,” INSS, October 30, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/limits-restraint-hamas-gaza-confrontation-israel/?offset=0&posts=986&type=399
Yona Schnitzer, “Thousands Flock to Israel’s Largest Independent Music Festival,” The Jewish Voice, October 25, 2017. http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19416:thousands-flock-to-israel-s-largest-independent-music-festival&catid=107&Itemid=773
Eitan Shamit, “The Source of the ‘Metal Detector Crisis’ on the Temple Mount: Israeli Policy on the Mount as Shaped by Moshe Dayan in 1967,” The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, October 2, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/source-metal-detector-crisis-temple-mount-israeli-policy-mount-shaped-moshe-dayan-1967
Kenneth Stein, “Facts Don’t Shake Fixed Views on Israel’s Birth,” Atlanta Jewish Times, October 20, 2017. http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/facts-dont-shake-fixed-views-on-israels-birth/
Jake Sullivan, “Confronting the Full Range of Iranian Threats,” Carnegie Endowment, House Foreign Affairs Committee, October 11, 2017. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20171011/106500/HHRG-115-FA00-Wstate-SullivanJ-20171011.pdf
General Charles F. Wald, “Confronting the Full Range of Iranian Threats,” The Gemunder Center Iran Task Force – The Jewish Institute for National Security of America testimony to House Foreign Affairs Committee, October 11, 2017. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20171011/106500/HHRG-115-FA00-Bio-WaldC-20171011.pdf
Bilal Wahab, “Why Israel Is Cheering On Iraqi Kurds’ Push for Independence,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 4, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-israel-is-cheering-on-iraqi-kurds-push-for-independence
Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov, “Preparing an Alternative Strategy before Withdrawing from the Nuclear Agreement with Iran,” INSS, October 10, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/preparing-alternative-strategy-withdrawing-nuclear-agreement-iran/
Iyad Zahalka, “A Female Qadi Appointed in the Sharia Court: Religious Law and Public Opinion,” The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, September 11, 2017.
http://dayan.org/content/female-qadi-appointed-sharia-court-religious-law-and-public-opinion
Neri Zilber, “Why Israel is Giving Syrians Free Spaghetti (and Health Care), Politico, October 28, 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/28/why-israel-is-providing-thousands-of-syrians-with-humanitarian-aid-215754
Raz Zimmt, “Soul Searching in Iranian Politics: Conservatives and Reformists after the Presidential Elections,” INSS, October 25, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/soul-searching-iranian-politics-conservatives-reformists-presidential-elections/?offset=2&posts=986&type=399

#55 Contemporary Readings, September 2017
October 6, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Raphael Ahren, “Urging end to Iran Deal, Netanyahu envisions march of the sanctions,” Times of Israel, September 20, 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/urging-end-to-iran-deal-netanyahu-envisions-march-of-the-sanctions/
Alan Baker, “Hijacking the Laws of Occupation,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 3, 2017. http://jcpa.org/article/hijacking-laws-occupation/
Howard Blas, “Israeli Designer Makes Splash At New York Fashion Week,” Jerusalem Post, September 26, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-designer-makes-splash-at-New-York-Fashion-Week-506041
Brian Blum, “Valuable lessons to learn from the crash of Better Place,” Israel 21c, September 28, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/valuable-lessons-to-learn-from-the-crash-of-better-place/
Mordechai Chaziza, “China and the Independent Kurdish State,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, September 18, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/china-independent-kurdistan/
David Chinitz, “How Israel Got Universal Health Care 20 Years Ago, And Why It’s Working,” Tablet Magazine, September 27. 2017. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/245989/israel-universal-health-care
Barry Davis, “A Look Back At The Israeli Rock Group,” Jerusalem Post, September 9, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/A-look-back-at-the-Israeli-rock-group-504629
Udi Dekel, Zvi Magen and Sima Shine, “Russia in Syria: Between Iran and Israel,” INSS, September 3, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/iran-israel-russia-syria/?offset=6&posts=976&type=399
Deutsche-Orient-Stiftung Staff, “DOI-Kurzanalysen (DOI Institute’s Brief Analyses of Middle Eastern Issues),” Deutsche-Orient-Stiftung, 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
Jonathan Ferziger, “Evangelical Christians Head to Jerusalem to Rally Behind Israel,” Bloomberg, September 19, 2017. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/zionist-evangelicals-trail-trump-to-holy-land-with-cash-in-hand
Alex Fishman, “Israel’s Missed Opportunity with Sunni States,” Y-Net News, September 13, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5016070,00.html
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, “Pragmatic Options for Gaza,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 14, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/pragmatic-options-for-gaza
Gabe Friedman, “Cello goddes Maya Beiser wants classical music to rock like Janis Joplin,” Times of Israel, September 7. 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/cello-goddess-maya-beiser-wants-classical-music-to-rock-like-janis-joplin/
Shona Ghosh, “‘It’s underhyped’: An investor explains his crazy promise to invest in every Israeli blockchain startup,” Business Insider, September 1, 2017. http://www.businessinsider.com/moshe-hogeg-blockchain-startup-and-ico-interview-2017-8?r=UK&IR=T
Avner Golov and Amos Yadlin, “The Trump-Netanyahu Meeting: An Opportunity for Policy Coordination on Iran in Light of the North Korean Crisis,” INSS, September 14, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/trump-netanyahu-meeting-opportunity-policy-coordination-iran-light-north-korean-crisis/?offset=5&posts=976&type=399
Jennifer Greenberg, “Infected Mushroom Returns To Israel For Boombox Festival,” Jerusalem Post, September 17. 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Get-infected-505343
Judah Ari Gross, “In first, US establishes permanent military base in Israel,” Times of Israel, September 18, 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-us-establishes-permanent-military-base-in-israel/
Alexandra Gutowski, “Israel Completes Largest Exercise in 20 Years Setting Sights on Hezbollah,” Foundation for Defense of Democracy, September 19, 2017. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/israel-completes-largest-exercise-in-20-years-setting-sights-on-hezbollah/
Yoel Guzansky, “Saudi Foreign Policy: Change of Direction Required,” INSS, September 26, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/saudi-foreign-policy-change-direction-required/?offset=3&posts=976&type=399
Gershon Hacohen, “Israeli Identity: What Has Changed This Year?” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, September 29, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israeli-identity/
Efraim Inbar, “Israel’s Costs vs. Its Benefits The Six-Day War,” Middle East Forum, Summer 2017. http://www.meforum.org/6727/israel-costs-vs-its-benefits
Avi Issacharoff, “Sick of running Gaza, Hamas may be aiming to switch to a Hezbollah-style role,” Times of Israel, October 1, 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/sick-of-running-gaza-hamas-may-be-aiming-to-switch-to-a-hezbollah-style-role/
Dorn Itzchakov, “Iran and the Kurdish Challenge,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, September 30, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-kurdish-challenge/
The Jewish People Policy Institute, Annual Assessment “The Situation and Dynamics of the Jewish People,” The Jewish People Policy Institute, September 2017. http://jppi.org.il/new/wp-content/uploads/2017/JPPIAA2017.pdf
Alex Joffe, “Palestinian Settler-Colonialism,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, September 3, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/palestinians-settlers-colonialism/
Abigail Leichman, “Fruit fly ‘Iron Dome’ for the farmers of India,” Israel 21c, September 3, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/fruit-fly-iron-dome-for-the-farmers-of-india/
Gilad Malach and Yohanan Plesner, “Supreme Court Strikes Down ultra-Orthodox Exemption From Military,” Israel Democracy Institute, September 13, 2017. https://en.idi.org.il/press-releases/18699
Ahmad Majidyar, “Iran Rejects Kurdish Vote, Threatens to Punish Erbil over “Israel Project,” Middle East Institute, September 27, 2017, http://www.mei.edu/content/article/io/iran-rejects-kurdish-vote-threatens-punish-erbil-over-israeli-plot
Suzanne Maloney, “The Roots and evolution of Iran’s Regional Strategy,” The Brookings Center for Middle East Policy, September 2017, http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/issue-briefs/the-roots-drivers-and-evolution-of-iran-s-regional-strategy
Kobi Michael, Liran Ofek and Gilead Sher, “Hamas: Toward Palestinian Reconciliation, or Abdication of Government Responsibility?” INSS, September 24, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/hamas-toward-palestinian-reconciliation-abdication-governmental-responsibility/?offset=4&posts=976&type=399
Joan Nathan, “An Israeli Chef Looks to the Landscape,” New York Times, September 8, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/dining/israel-cuisine-erez-komarovsky.html
Rotem Oreg and Daniel Shapiro, “‘Unite the Right’ Divides the Jews: Charlottesville and Relations between American Jewry and Israel,” INSS, August 31, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/unite-right-divides-jews-charlottesville-relations-american-jewry-israel/
David Pollock, “Jerusalem Palestinian Poll Shows How Events Shift Attitudes Sharply Pro and Con,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 5, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/jerusalem-palestinian-poll-shows-how-events-shift-attitudes-sharply-pro-and
Maxim Reider, “Made in Israel,” Jerusalem Post, September 18, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Made-in-Israel-505405
Gideon Sa’ar and Ron Tira, “Political and Military Contours of the Next Conflict with Hezbollah,” INSS, Vol 20, No 2, July 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/political-military-contours-next-conflict-hezbollah/?offset=4&posts=20&type=401
Ceng Sagnic, “Turkey-KRG Relations Revisited: Potential for Crises,” Moshe Dayan Center, Vol 1, No 11, September 2017. http://dayan.org/content/turkey-krg-relations-revisited-potential-crises
Michael Segall, “Iran and Hamas Reconnect,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 25, 2017. http://jcpa.org/article/iran-hamas-reconnect/
Shoshanna Solomon, “Windy City seeks deeper ties with Startup Nation on technology,” Times of Israel, September , 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/windy-city-seeks-deeper-ties-with-startup-nation-on-technology/
Amy Spiro, “Israeli Restaurant in London Ranked No. 1,” Jerusalem Post, September 10, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-restaurant-in-London-ranked-no-1-504725
Jonathan Spyer, “Israel Prepares for War in Syria against Iran,” Middle East Forum, September 28, 2017. http://www.meforum.org/6946/israel-prepares-for-war-in-syria-against-iran
Toi Staff, “Government has no plans to close aging Dimona nuclear facility,” Times of Israel, September 19, 2017. https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-has-no-plans-to-close-aging-dimona-nuclear-facility/
Ken Stein, “Zionism and Israel Are Pro-Choice: Embrace Them Both,” Center for Israel Education, September 15, 2017. https://israeled.org/zionism-israel-pro-choice-embrace/
Alon Tal, “Racing Toward Disaster: Israel’s Unstable Population Bomb,” Jerusalem Post, September 24, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Racing-toward-disaster-Israels-unsustainable-population-bomb-504249
Bhok Thompson, “IKEA catches on to insect protein for food,” Green Prophet, September 13, 2017. https://www.greenprophet.com/2017/09/ikea-catches-on-to-insect-protein-for-food/
Ronan Zeidel, “The Islamic State (Da’ esh) after the Liberation of Mosul,” Moshe Dayan Center, Vol 11, No 15, September 13, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/islamic-state-da%CA%BFesh-after-liberation-mosul
Steven Zeitchik, “‘Foxtrot’ Swept the Israeli Academy Awards. Here’s why it’s controversial,” Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2017. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-foxtrot-israel-controversy-20170919-story.html

#54 Contemporary Readings, August 2017
September 5, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi, “The End of this Road: The Decline of the Palestinian National Movement,” The New Yorker, August 6, 2017. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-end-of-this-road-the-decline-of-the-palestinian-national-movement
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, “Beware Media Fear-Mongering,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, August 27, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/media-fear-mongering/
Inbal Arieli, “How the IDF helps Israeli teens reinvent themselves,” Israel21c, August 22, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/how-israels-army-helps-teens-reinvent-themselves/
Fabrice Balanche, “The Race for Deir al-Zour Province,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 17, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-race-for-deir-al-zour-province
Reuven Berko, “Exploiting Islam,” Israel HaYom, August 17, 2017. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=19699
Brian Blum, “10 of the hottest self-driving technologies from Israel,” Israel21c, August 10, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/10-of-the-hottest-autonomous-driving-technologies-from-israel/
Dr. Barak Bouks, “The Hezbollah-Fath al-Sham Ceasefire: A New Regional Equilibrium?” BESA Center, August 31, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/hezbollah-syria-ceasefire/
Ben Caspit, “F-35 offers Israel ‘entire Middle East’ from the cockpit,” Al-Monitor, August 30, 2017. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/08/israel-f-35-jets-security-idf-air-force-aerial-superiority.html
Udi Dekel, Gabi Siboni, and Omer Einav (editors), “The Quiet Decade: In the Aftermath of the Second Lebanon War, 2006-2016,” INSS, August 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/memo167_6.pdf
Ben Dror Yemini. “Turning a blind eye to extreme Right or Left anti-Semitism,” Y-Net News, August 22, 2017, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5006503,00.html
Mark Dubowitz and Mike Gallagher, “Averting a Third Lebanon War,” Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2017. https://www.wsj.com/articles/averting-a-third-lebanon-war-1501615194
Economist Staff, “Israel has a gas conundrum,” Economist, August 17, 2017. https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21726744-egypt-could-help-israel-get-rid-its-excess-gas-israel-has-gas-conundrum
Dan Feferman and Shmuel Rosner, “Putting the Kotel Decision in Context –Implications and Steps Forward,” The Jewish People Policy Institute,” August 24, 2017. http://jppi.org.il/new/en/article/english-putting-the-kotel-decision-in-context/#.WaVZZ8iGOUk
Caroline Glick, “The Strategic Case for Kurdistan,” Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-strategic-case-for-Kurdistan-503922
Major Gen Gershon Hacohen, “Why National Leaders Go Against Expert Advice (Temple Mount),” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, August 24, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/leadership-advice/
Haisam Hassanein, “A Beauty Queen Helps Israel’s Egyptian Community Find Its Voice,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 16, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/a-beauty-queen-helps-israels-egyptian-community-find-its-voice
Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky, “Seven Memorable “Guterres Moments” for Israel during the UN Secretary-General’s First Seven Months,” INSS, August 27, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/seven-memorable-guterres-moments-israel-un-secretary-generals-first-seven-months/?offset=1&posts=969&type=399
Efraim Inbar, “Where is the Middle East Headed,” Israel Hayom, August 24, 2017. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=19761
Israel 21c Staff, “Israel to become major exporter of medical cannabis,” August 15, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/israel-to-become-major-exporter-of-medical-cannabis/
Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, “Iran Does not Need a Land Route to the Mediterranean,” Middle East Forum, August 22, 2017. http://www.meforum.org/6887/iranian-land-route-to-the-mediterranean
Jewish Telegraph Agency, “She [Miriam Bailin]Pioneered First Aid in Israel, Now She’s Helping Houston,” Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/She-pioneered-first-aid-in-Israel-now-shes-helping-Houston-503892
Mehdi Khalaj, “Rouhani’s Road Already Taken,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 16, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/rouhanis-road-already-taken
P. R. Kumaraswamy, “India’s New Crush on Israel,” Tablet, August 14, 2017. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/243136/indias-new-crush-on-israel
Yossi Kuperwasser, “Why Israel Is Concerned About American-Russian Understandings on Syria,” August 22, 2017. http://jcpa.org/israel-concerned-american-russian-understandings-syria/
Dr. Spyridon N. Litsas, “Erdoğan’s Turkey: A Step Closer to the Orient,” BESA Center, August 20, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/erdogans-turkey-step-closer-orient/
F.M. Loewenberg, “Is the Western Wall Judaism’s Holiest Site,” Middle East Quarterly
Fall 2017. https://tinyurl.com/ybjzsxbo
Ariane Mandell, “Regina Spektor Serenades Israel, Shuns ‘F*cking Nazis,’” Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Regina-Spektor-serenades-Israel-shuns-fcking-nazis-502923
Ambassador Arye Mekel, “The New US “Peace Team”: A Test of Will,” BESA Center, August 21, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/new-us-peace-team-test-will/
Marc Neugroschel, “Divorcing music from anti-Semitism, Israeli soprano takes on taboo at Wagner fest,” Times of Israel, August 2, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/divorcing-music-from-anti-semitism-israeli-soprano-takes-on-taboo-at-wagner-fest/
Fiamma Nirenstein (ed.), “Lessons from Israel’s Response to Terrorism,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June-July 2017. http://jcpa.org/lessons-israels-response-terrorism/
Ghaith al-Omari and Grant Rumley, “Is War in Gaza Unavoidable?” Foreign Affairs, August 22, 2017. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2017-08-22/war-gaza-unavoidable
Smadar Perry, “Israel’s Closed Embassies in Cairo and Amman,” Ynet News, August 13, 2017. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5002347,00.html
Paul R. Pillar, “Netanyahu’s Priorities and US Responses,” The National Interest, August 19, 2017. http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/netanyahus-priorities-us-responses-21979
Yohanan Plessner. “There is Still Hope for Knesset Reform,” Israel Democracy Institute, August 2017. https://en.idi.org.il/
Elai Rettig and Yotam Rosner, “Europe’s Challenges Open the Market for Israel’s Arms Industry,” INSS, August 21, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/europes-challenges-open-market-israels-arms-industry/?offset=5&posts=969&type=399
Dennis Ross, “President Trump’s Syria Conundrum,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Reprinted from Asharq al-Awsat, August 14, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/president-trumps-syria-conundrum
Natan Sachs, “Benjamin Netanyahu and the politics of grievance,” Brookings, August 22, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/08/22/benjamin-netanyahu-and-the-politics-of-grievance/
Abdel-Moneim Said, “100 Years after Balfour,” Al-Ahram Weekly, August 17-23, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/22180.aspx
Uri Savir, “Will Jordan, Palestinians form confederation?” Al-Monitor, August 27, 2017. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/08/israel-palestinians-jordan-confederation-king-abdullah-abbas.html
Abdullah Sawalha, “Why Israel Should Listen to Jordan on the Temple Mount,” Fikra Forum, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 11, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/why-israel-should-listen-to-jordan-on-the-temple-mount1
David Schenker, “Killings Fray Jordan-Israel Ties,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 23, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/killings-fray-jordan-israel-ties
Assaf Shapira, “The Yisrael Beiteinu-Likud Split: Background and Consequences,” Israel Democracy Institute, July 13, 2017. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/6298
Jonathan Spyer, “And the Winner in Syria is Iran…” The Jersusalem Post, August 26, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/And-the-winner-in-Syria-is-Iran-503358
Tazpit News Agency, “Birthright Program Matches Israeli, Foreign 20-Somethings for Business Fellowship,” Jewish Press, August 10, 2017. http://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/birthright-program-matches-israeli-foreign-20-somethings-for-business-fellowship/2017/08/10/
Joshua Teitelbaum, “Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People: From the San Remo Conference (1920) to the Netanyahu – Abbas Talks,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September-October 2010. http://jcpa.org/article/israel-as-the-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people-from-the-san-remo-conference-1920-to-the-netanyahu-abbas-talks/
Neville Teller, “China looks toward the Middle East,” Jerusalem Post, August 4, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/A-Mid-East-Journal/China-looks-toward-the-Middle-East-501605
TheTower.org Staff, “Israel Announces Airlift of Six Tons of Food for Drought-Stricken South Sudan,” Tower, August 28, 2017. http://www.thetower.org/5376oc-israel-announces-airlift-of-six-tons-of-food-for-drought-stricken-south-sudan/
Ofir Winter and Meirav Malter, “Egypt’s Challenging Shift from Counterterrorism to Counterinsurgency in the Sinai,” INSS, August 24, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypts-challenging-shift-counterterrorism-counterinsurgency-sinai/?offset=4&posts=969&type=399
Amos Yadlin and Gilead Sher, “The Disengagement, Twelve Years On: Implications, Lessons, and an Eye toward the Future,” INSS, August 6, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/disengagement-twelve-years-implications-lessons-eye-toward-future/?offset=9&posts=969&type=399
Roie Yellinek, “Is China Intervening in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?” BESA Center, August 13, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/china-israel-palestinians/

#53 Contemporary Readings, July 2017
July 31, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Gwen Ackerman, “Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Are Getting Their First Startup Fund,” Bloomberg, July 25, 2017. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-25/israel-s-ultra-orthodox-are-getting-their-first-startup-fund
Yaakov Amidror, “Perfect Storm: The Implications of Middle East Chaos,” BESA Center, July 5, 2017. https://besacenter.org/policy-memorandum/perfect-storm-the-long-term-implications-of-middle-east-chaos/ and https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/BM8Eng-web.pdf
Dan Arbell, “Tensions over Jerusalem expose vulnerability of Turkey-Israel relations, one year after normalizing ties,” Brookings Institute, July 31, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/07/31/tensions-over-jerusalem-expose-vulnerability-of-turkey-israel-relations-one-year-after-normalizing-ties/
Inbal Arieli, “In Israel, individualism and collectivism happily coexist,” Israel21c, July 24, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/in-israel-individualism-and-collectivism-happily-coexist/
Brigadier-General (Res.) Amir Avivi, “Temple Mount crisis proves violence pays,” Ynet News, July 28, 2017. www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4995536,00.html
Alan Baker, “The Jews: One of the World’s Oldest Indigenous Peoples,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, July 30, 2017. http://jcpa.org/article/jews-one-worlds-oldest-indigenous-peoples/
Ferry Biedermann, “China is increasingly becoming key for Israel’s high-tech industry,” CNBC, July 18, 2017. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/18/china-is-increasingly-becoming-key-for-israels-high-tech-industry.html
Hannah Brown, “Exporting Israel to the World Through Television,” Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2017. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Exporting-Israel-to-the-world-through-television-501182
Anthony Cordesman, “Saudi Arabia, the UAR, Qatar, and the New “Game of Thrones,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 13, 2017. https://www.csis.org/analysis/saudi-arabia-uae-qatar-and-new-game-thrones
Bernard Dichek, “Israeli Documentary Cinema Aims to go Global,” Jerusalem Post, July 15, 2017. www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Pitching-ideas-for-documentaries-498365
Oded Eran “India and Israel: A Strategic Alliance?” INSS, July 6, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/india-israel-strategic-alliance/?offset=8&posts=959&type=399
Seth Frantzman, “Five Post-Abbas Possibilities,” Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2017. www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Five-post-Abbas-possibilities-501168
Brandon Friedman, “Haram al-Sharif: Israel’s Alignment with the Sunni Arab States in Practice,” Dayan Center, July 27, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/haram-al-sharif-israel’s-alignment-sunni-arab-states-practice
Daniel Gordis, “Israelis don’t care that you’re insulted: An open letter to American Jews,” Times of Israel, July 3, 2017. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israelis-dont-care-that-youre-insulted-an-open-letter-to-american-jews/
Yoel Guzansky and Gallia Lindenstrauss, “Foreign Policy Think Tanks and Decision Making Processes,” INSS, July 2017. www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/adkan20-2ENG_4-127-137.pdf
Rafik Halabi, “It is time to save our state [from intolerance and fanaticism],” Ynet News, July 16, 2017. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4989825,00.html
Susan Hattis Rolef, “Think About It: Religious indoctrination in [Israel’s]secular education – most secular children in Israel grow up knowing very little about Jewish religion,” Jerusalem Post, July 9, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Think-About-It-Religious-indoctrination-in-secular-education-499220
Efraim Inbar, “Indian Prime Minister Makes Historic Visit to Jerusalem, Skips Ramallah,” BESA Center, July 1, 2017. http://www.meforum.org/6801/modi-in-israel
Israel21c Staff, “Israel’s Eco Wave Power building 4.1MW project in Mexico,” Israel21c, July 24, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/israels-eco-wave-power-building-4-1mw-project-in-mexico/
Leela Jacinto, “Turkeys Post-Coup Purge and Erdogan’s Private Army, Foreign Policy, July 13, 2017. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/13/turkeys-post-coup-purge-and-erdogans-private-army-sadat-perincek-gulen/amp/
Abigail Klein Lichtman, “What Israel – and you – can do about food security,” Israel21c, July 16, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/what-israel-and-you-can-do-about-food-security/
Dhruva Jaishankar and Shruti Godbole, “Even as India attempts to ‘Act East’, it is ‘Thinking West,’” Brookings Institute, July 6, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/even-as-india-attempts-to-act-east-it-is-thinking-west/
Tzvi Kahm, “The Ideological Battleground of Iran’s Internet,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, July 11, 2017. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/tzvi-kahn-the-ideological-battleground-of-irans-internet/
Vinay Kaura, “Indo-Israeli Security Cooperation: Onward and Upward,” BESA Center, July 8, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/india-israel-security-cooperation/
David Makovsky, “Israel and Jordan Act to Ease Jerusalem Crisis,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 24, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israel-and-jordan-act-to-ease-jerusalem-crisis
Kobi Michael, “The Gaza Strip: An Opportunity for Change?” INSS, July 6, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/gaza-strip-opportunity-change/?offset=9&posts=959&type=399
Beverley Milton-Edwards, “Gaza end game?” Brookings Institute, July 7, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/07/07/gaza-end-game/
Jacques Neriah, “Is the Tunisian “Arab Spring” About to Repeat in Morocco,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 19,2017. http://jcpa.org/article/tunisian-arab-spring-repeat-morocco/
Aylin Oney Tan, “Israeli, Turkish chefs hope food can bridge divide,”Al-Monitor, July 27, 2017. www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/07/israeli-turkish-chefs-cook-together.html
Viva Sarah Press, “Israel records 1.74 million tourist entries in H1/2017,” Israel21c, July 13, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/israel-records-1-74-million-tourist-entries-in-h12017/
Paul Rivlin, “Demographics between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan,” Dayan Center, July 23, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/demographics-between-mediterranean-and-river-jordan
Dr. John Ruskay and Shmuel Rosner, “What JPPI’s Global Jewish Dialogue on Jerusalem Teaches Us about the Kotel Crisis (and Conversion Bill), Jewish People’s Policy Institute, July 2, 2017. http://jppi.org.il/new/en/article/english-what-jppis-2017-global-jewish-dialogue-on-jerusalem-teaches-us-about-the-kotel-crisis/#.WWyMLYTyvcs
Gideon Sa’ar and Ron Tira, “Political and Military Contours of theNext Conflict with Hezbollah,” INSS, July 2017. www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/adkan20-2ENG_4-59-73.pdf
Matthias Sailer, Stephen Roll, “Three Scenarios for the Qatar Crisis Regime Change, Resolution or Cold War in the Gulf, “Stiftung fur Wissenschaft und Politik, July 2017. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/the-qatar-crisis-three-scenarios/
Shoshanna Solomon, “Israel tech firms raise $1.26 billion in 2Q 2017,” Times of Israel, July 19, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/israel-tech-firms-raise-1-26-billion-in-2q-2017/
Daniel Shapiro,”Israel and American Jewry: Stepping Back from the Brink,” INSS, July 31, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-american-jewry-stepping-back-brink/
Anav Silverman, “A small Israeli guitar factory is making big noises abroad,” Israel21c, July 24, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/a-small-israeli-guitar-factory-is-making-big-noises-abroad/
Vanessa Tomassini, “My conversation with the expert Edward Luttwak about Iran and Israel,” Jerusalem Post, July 31, 2017. www.jpost.com/Blogs/Vanessas-Blog/My-conversation-with-the-expert-Edward-Luttwak-about-Iran-and-Israel-501192
Mira Tzoreff, “Remembering the June 1967 War after Fifty Years: The Egyptian Version,” Dayan Center, July 13, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/remembering-june-1967-war-after-fifty-years-egyptian-version
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, “Syria’s Society Upended, Societal Rifts Pose a Massive Challenge to Pursuit of a Political Solution,” Stiftung fur Wissenschaft und Politik, July 27, 2017. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/syrias-society-upended/

#52 Contemporary Readings, June 2017
July 5, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Yaacov Amidror, “The Qatar Crisis: Signs of Weakness,” The BESA-Center, June 14, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/qatar-crisis-weakness/
Anna Ahronheim and Seth J Frantzman, The Next War Will be bloody: A Trip Along Israel’s Tense Northern Border,” Jerusalem Post, June 28, 2017. www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/The-next-war-will-be-bloody-A-trip-along-Israels-tense-northern-border-498169
Sarosh Bana, “Shalom, Modi [Indian PM]!” BESA Center, June 30, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/narendra-modi-israel-visit/
Michael Barak, “The Pizza Crisis: The Viral Palestinian Prisoners Campaigns,” Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies – Beehive Middle East Social Media, June 7, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/pizza-crisis-viral-palestinian-prisoners-campaigns
Katherine Bauer and Gaith al-Omari, “Defusing the Electricity Crisis in Gaza — For Now,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 22, 2017. www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/defusing-the-electricity-crisis-in-gaza-for-now
Yoni Ben Menachmen, Whatever Happened to the Term “Palestinian State?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 28, 2017. http://jcpa.org/whatever-happened-term-palestinian-state/
Brookings Institute Conference Proceedings, “Indian Prime Minister Modi visits the U.S. and Israel,” Brookings Institute, June 22, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/events/indian-prime-minister-modi-visits-the-u-s-and-israel/
Nicky Blackburn, “Michael Solomonov cooks up a storm in the Jerusalem Hills,” Israel21c, June 04, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/michael-solomonov-cooks-up-a-storm-in-the-jerusalem-hills/
Hannah Brown, “Golden Age for Israeli Cinema,” Jerusalem Post, June 10, 2017. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Golden-age-for-Israeli-cinema-496451
Barry David, “The Masters of Mosaic Music,” Jerusalem Post, June 21, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/The-masters-of-mosaic-music-497539
Ofra Bengio, “Jerusalem of the Kurds: Kirkuk and the Kurdish Strategy for Independence, June 29, 2017, The Dayan Center, http://dayan.org/content/jerusalem-kurds-kirkuk-and-kurdish-strategy-independence
Udi Dekel, “East-West-North-South: The Race for Syria after the Islamic State,” INSS, June 25, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/east-west-north-south-race-syria-islamic-state/?offset=3&posts=946&type=399
Brandon Friedman, “From Baghdad to Riyadh: A New Regional Security Pact?” Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, June 1, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/baghdad-riyadh-new-regional-security-pact
Gideon Gera, “Algeria – The Parliamentary Elections and their Implications,” Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, June 12, 2017. http://dayan.org/journal/tel-aviv-notes-contemporary-middle-east-analysis
Ilan Goldberg and Tamara Cofman Wittes, “How Trump’s black and white world view met reality in the Middle East,” Brookings Institute, June 15, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/06/15/how-trumps-black-and-white-world-view-met-reality-in-the-middle-east/
JJ Goldberg, “To Fight The Kotel Decision, U.S. Jews Have To Understand Israeli Politics,” Forward Magazine, June 27, 2017. http://forward.com/opinion/israel/375724/to-fight-the-kotel-decision-us-jews-have-to-understand-israeli-politics/
Globes Staff, ” Smoking cost Israeli economy NIS 13b in 2016,” Globes, June 1, 2017. www.globes.co.il/en/article-smoking-cost-israeli-economy-nis-13b-in-2016-1001190870
Yoel Guzansky, “Mohammed bin Salman as Crown Prince: Ramifications for Riyadh and Beyond,” INSS, June 29, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/mohammed-bin-salman-crown-prince-ramifications-riyadh-beyond/?offset=1&posts=946&type=399
Hussein Haridy, “Minus Qatar- Doha continues to hedge and meddle beyond its stature in Middle East strategic relations,” Al-Ahram Weekly, June 8-14, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20638.aspx
Donniel Hartman, “Suspending the Kotel Agreement: An affront to Zionism,” Times of Israel, June 26, 2017. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-affront-to-zionism/
Haisam Hassaneim, “Why Regional Dynamics Open the Door for the Jordan-Israel Cooperation,” The Cipher Brief, June 13, 2017. https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/exclusive/middle-east/why-regional-dynamics-open-door-jordan-israel-cooperation-1091
Ariel Dominique Handelman, “ Israeli-Ethiopian Grounded Groove,” Jerusalem Post, June 27, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-Ethiopian-grounded-groove-498091
Simon Henderson, “Saudi Royal Rivalries Test U.S. Relations,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 29, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/saudi-royal-rivalries-test-u.s.-relations
Bruce Hoffman and Zacharay Laub,” Why Did the Islamic State Target Tehran?” Council on Foreign Relations, June 8, 2017. https://www.cfr.org/interview/why-did-islamic-state-target-tehran
David Horovitz, “Sharansky: We may solve Western Wall and conversion crises. I’m not sure we can rebuild trust,” Times of Israel, June 28, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/sharansky-we-may-solve-western-wall-and-conversion-crises-im-not-sure-we-can-rebuild-trust/
Alexey Khlebnikov, “What Does Trump’s Visit to Saudi Arabia Mean for Russia?” Middle East Institute, May 31, 2017. Middle East Institute http://www.mei.edu/content/article/what-does-trump-s-visit-saudi-arabia-mean-russia
Rami G. Khouri, “Is this the start of the final battle for the Arab region?” Agence Global, June 14, 2017. http://agenceglobal.com/author/rami-g-khouri/
Yossi Klein Halevi, “The tragedy of the Wall,” Times of Israel, June 22, 2017. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-tragedy-of-the-western-wall/
Michael Koplow, “The Six Day War Was a Step Backward for Zionism,” The Atlantic, June 6, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/six-day-war-pragmatic-zionism/529242/
Martin Kramer and others, “The Balfour Declaration Was More than the Promise of One Nation,” June 2017, https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2017/06/the-balfour-declaration-was-more-than-the-promise-of-one-nation/
Dan Kurtzer, “Transformational Leadership and the Prospects for Peace,” Palestine-Israeli Journal, June 3, 2017. http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1771
Eran Lehrman, “The “Game of Camps” Revisited: Why Qatar? Why Now?” BESA Center, June 12, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/game-camps-revisited-qatar-now/
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Award-winning Israeli film is bound for Broadway,” Israel21c, June 20, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/award-winning-israeli-film-is-bound-for-broadway/
Matthew Levitt, “Attacking Hezbollah’s Financial Network: Policy Options,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Testimony submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, June 8, 2017. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20170608/106094/HHRG-115-FA00-Wstate-LevittM-20170608.pdf
Jacob Magid, “NFL Hall of Famers laud Israelis’ sense of family, love for their country,” Times of Israel, June 19, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/nfl-hall-of-famers-laud-israelis-sense-of-family-love-for-their-country/
Doron Matza and Meir Elran, “Jewish-Arab Relations following the Kafr Qassem Incident: The Danger of the Slippery Slope,” INSS, June 18, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/jewish-arab-relations-following-kafr-qassem-incident-danger-slippery-slope/?offset=8&posts=946&type=399
Jazz Monroe and Noah Yoo, “Thom Yorke Blasts “Offensive” Radiohead Israel Controversy,” Pitchfork, June 2, 2017. http://pitchfork.com/news/73084-thom-yorke-blasts-offensive-radiohead-israel-controversy/
Abdou Mubasher, “The Road to Naksa,” (the silence that engulfed the mistakes that led to the 1967 war, now spoken,” al-Ahram Weekly, 1-7June 2017, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20630.aspx
Galal Nassar, “The Six Day War,” al-Ahram Weekly, 1-7June 2017, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Files/31/SPECIAL-FILES/0.aspx
Galal Nassar, “The Three-Year War,” (memoir by General Mohamed Fawzi, then Minister of Defense), al-Ahram Weekly, 1-7June 2017, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20627.aspx
Galal Nassar, “Picking Up the Pieces (memoir on Amin Howeidi),” al-Ahram Weekly, 1-7 June 2017,
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20625.aspx
Galal Nasser, “Israeli Strategy in Sinai after 1967,” al-Ahram Weekly, 1-7June 2017, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20631.aspx
Galal Nasser, “The US, Nasser and 1967,” al-Ahram Weekly, 1-7June 2017, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20629.aspx
David Pollock, “The Palestinian Public’s Tough Choices: On Violence, Instability, Hamas, “Jewish State,” The Washington Institute for Near East Studies, June 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/the-palestinian-publics-tough-choices-on-violence-instability-hamas-jewish
David Pollock, “What Gazans Really Want: Hard Data About A Hard Problem,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 20, 2017. www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/what-gazans-really-want-hard-data-about-a-hard-problem
Paul Rivlin, “The Qatar Crisis,” Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, June 22, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/qatar-crisis
George Robinson, “The Best Jewish, Israeli Films Of 2017 So Far,” New York Jewish Week, June 13, 2017. http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/the-cinema-of-schisms/
Dennis Ross, Nicholas Rostow, and Michael Mandelbaum, “LBJ and the June 1967 War: Lessons from the American Role,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 9, 2017. www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/lbj-and-the-june-1967-war-lessons-from-the-american-role
Abdel-Moneim Said, “The limits of Power Qatar overstepped its status and now faces the consequences, Al-Ahram Weekly, June 8-14 , 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20749.aspx
Shoshanna Solomon, “Intel Seeks Israeli Tech to Foil Hackers with Deceptive Chips,” Times of Israel, June 21, 2017.www.timesofisrael.com/intel-seeks-israeli-tech-to-foil-hackers-with-deceptive-chips/
Zaki Shalom and Kobi Michael, “From Obama to Trump: Continuity versus Change in Middle East Policy,” INSS, June 15, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/obama-trump-continuity-versus-change-middle-east-policy/?offset=9&posts=946&type=399
Eldad Shavit and Yoel Guzansky, “President Trump in Riyadh: A New Start for US-Saudi Relations?” INSS, June 15, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/president-trump-riyadh-new-start-us-saudi-relations/?offset=14&posts=946&type=399
Jonathan Spyer, “Lines in the Sand: Qatar’s Increasing Isolation in the Arab World–A Pro- American Arab Alliance that Fights,” The Jerusalem Post, June 9, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/International/Lines-in-the-Sand-496326
Ken Stein “50 Voices 50 Years (since the June 1967 war),” Bicom-Fathom Journal, June 2017, https://www.50voices50years.com/ken-stein
The Tower Staff, “Israel and Jordan Intensify Cooperation as Iran Tightens Grip on Southern Syria,” The Tower, June 21, 2017. www.thetower.org/5116-israel-and-jordan-intensify-cooperation-as-iran-tightens-grip-on-southern-syria/
George N. Tzogopoulos, “The EastMed Pipeline Could Be a Giant Step Towards Enhancing Regional Security,” BESA Center, June 22, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/eastmed-pipeline-security/
Sharon Udasin, “OCED Projects Continued Growth for Israel in 2017-18,” Jerusalem Post, June 08, 2017. www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/OECD-projects-continued-growth-for-Israel-in-2017-18-496197
Hala Youssef, “Halting (Egypt’s) Population Growth,” Al-Ahram Weekly, June 4-14, 1967. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20678.aspx
Raz Zimmer, “No More Palestinian than the Palestinians: Iranians React to the Hamas Revised Charter,” Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies – Beehive Middle East Social Media, June 7, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/no-more-palestinian-palestinians-iranians-react-hamas-revised-charter

#51 Contemporary Readings, May 2017
June 5, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Rasha Abou Jalal, “What’s behind Abbas’ recent threats to Hamas? Al-Monitor, May 15, 2017. ” www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/05/palestine-abbas-threats-hamas-gaza-trump-visit.html
Amnon Abramovich, “Almost 40 Years of Likud Rule: What else has to happen, Y-Net News,” May 15, 2017. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4962260,00.html
Inbal Ariel, “Israeli teens are in ‘the stupid age’,” Israel21c, May 15, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-teens-are-in-the-stupid-age/
Orit Arfa, “Berlin Becomes a Musical Playground for Israeli Artists,” Jerusalem Post, May 16, 2017. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Berlin-becomes-a-musical-playground-for-Israeli-artists-490938
Shlomo Brom and Udi Dekel, “The Trump Administration: Forming a Policy on Settlements,” INSS, April 20, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13296
Udi Dekel, “Hamas’s New Statement of Principles: A Political Opportunity for Israel?,” INSS, May 14, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/hamass-new-statement-principles-political-opportunity-israel/?offset=6&posts=932&type=399
Dr. Edy Cohen, “Assad’s Survival Is in Israel’s Best Interest.” BESA Center. May 25, 2017. https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/476-Assads-Survival-Is-in-Israels-Best-Interest-Cohen-English-final.pdf
Anwar Eskt, “Trump will Find an Arab Nation Rising to Confront Iran,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 22, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/trump-will-find-an-arab-nation-rising-to-confront-iran
Dina Ezzat, “The Ultimate (Trump-Saudi)Deal,” Al-Ahram Weekly, 25-31 May 2017, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20571.aspx
Brandon Friedman, “Trump’s First 100 Days and Syria,” The Moshe Dayan Center, May 10, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/trumps-first-100-days-and-syria
Gabriel Glickman, “How Nasser’s Vendetta against American led to the Six Day War,” Fathom, Spring 2017. http://fathomjournal.org/1967-how-nassers-vendetta-against-america-led-to-the-six-day-war/
Gabriel Glickman, “This Time the Loser Writes History,” Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2017. http://www.meforum.org/meq/pdfs/6710.pdf
Globes Staff, “Smoking cost Israeli economy NIS 13b in 2016,” Globes, June 1, 2017. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-smoking-cost-israeli-economy-nis-13b-in-2016-1001190870
Liam Hoare, “1967 Nathan Alterman or Amos Oz: The Six Day war and Israeli Literature,” Fathom, Spring 2017. http://fathomjournal.org/1967-natan-alterman-or-amos-oz-the-six-day-war-and-israeli-literature/
Hussein Ibish, “Trump’s Plan for Middle East Peace Could Actually Work,” Foreign Policy, May 25, 2017. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/25/trumps-plan-for-middle-east-peace-could-actually-work/
Hussein Ibish, “We Can’t Predict whether Trump Will Succeed in the Middle East,” The Atlantic, May 25, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/trump-israeli-palestinian-peace/528030/
Martin Indyk, Ken Stein, and Shibli Telhami, “US Policy in the Middle East: Fifty Years after the Six Day War, May 30, 2017. https://www.cfr.org/event/us-policy-middle-east-fifty-years-after-six-day-war
Efraim Inbar, “Israel is Still at War,” BESA Center, May 4, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-still-war
Ofek Ish Maas, Carmit Valensi, “The Agreement on De-escalation Zones in Syria: Risks to Israel, with Opportunities for Influence,” INSS, May 15, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/agreement-de-escalation-zones-syria-risks-israel-opportunities-influence/?offset=5&posts=932&type=399
Ron Kampeas, “The Death of The TV Channel That Once Unified,” Forward, May 11, 2017. http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/371680/death-of-channel-1-closed-tv-network-that-once-unified-israel/
Efraim Karsh, “The Six Day War: An Inevitable Conflict,” BESA Center, May 19, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/six-day-war-inevitable-conflict/
Emily Landau, “Obama’s Legacy, a Nuclear Iran,” Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2017, http://www.meforum.org/6561/obama-legacy-a-nuclear-iran
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Michael Solomonov wins James Beard Outstanding Chef award,” Israel21c, May 4, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/michael-solomonov-wins-james-beard-outstanding-chef-award/
Yaacov Lozowich, “Breaking News: The Secret Transcripts of the Six-Day War, Part I,” Tablet, May 17, 2017. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/234352/secret-transcripts-six-day-war-1
David Makovsky, “When International Guarantees Utterly Failed,” Jerusalem Post, May 4, 2017.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/when-international-guarantees-utterly-failed
Dimitar Mihaylov, “Why the Arab Spring Turned into Arab Winter: Understanding the Middle East Crisis through Culture, Religion, and Literature,” Israeli Journal of Foreign Affairs, April 2017. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23739770.2017.1313544
Hassan Mniemneh, “Can Diversity in the Middle East Be Rescued” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 5, 2017.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/can-diversity-in-the-middle-east-be-rescued
Ghaith al-Omari, “The Abbas-Trump Agenda: Urging Modest Steps Toward Peace,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 26, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-abbas-trump-agenda-urging-modest-steps-toward-peace
Viva Sarah Press, “Western Galilee is one giant festival in the month of May,” Israel21c, May11, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/western-galilee-is-one-giant-festival-in-the-month-of-may/
Paul Rivlin, “The Crisis in Gaza,” The Moshe Dayan Center, May 28, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/crisis-gaza
Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff, “Chinese investment in Israeli tech hits record $16.5 billion in 2016,” Israel Hayom, May 11, 2017. www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=42333
Asaf Romirovsky, “Nakba: The Source of Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Middle East Forum, Y-Net News, Spring 2017, http://www.meforum.org/6737/nakba-the-source-of-arab-israeli-conflict
Natan Sachs, “50 years: Legacies of the 1967 War,” Brookings Institute, May 31, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/05/31/50-years-legacies-of-the-1967-war/
Shoshanna Solomon, “Intel to pay taxes from Mobileye deal in US dollars: move is to prevent ‘over-appreciation’ of the shekel, Bank of Israel says,” Times of Israel, May 16, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/intel-to-pay-taxes-from-mobileye-deal-in-us-dollars/
Daniel Shapiro and Rotem Oreg, “Trump’s “Square One” on the Twisted Road to an Israeli-Palestinian Solution,” INSS, May 21, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/trumps-square-one-twisted-road-israeli-palestinian-solution/
Micahael Sharnoff,” Nasser’s Legacy on the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War,” BESA Center. May 21, 2017. https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/472-Nassers-Legacy-50-Years-After-1967-War-Sharnoff-final.pdf
Eyal Sher, “Israel Festival Brings People Together, Creatively,” The New York Jewish Week, May 25, 2017. http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/israel-festival-brings-people-together-creatively/
Sima Shine, Raz Zimmt and Anna Catran, “The Election of Rouhani as President: A Message to the Supreme Leader,” INSS, May 29, 2017. www.inss.org.il/publication/election-rouhani-president-message-supreme-leader/?offset=1&posts=932&type=399
Amy Spiro, “Musical Adapted from Israeli Film to Hit Broadway,” Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2017. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Musical-adapted-from-Israeli-film-to-hit-Broadway-493938
Kirk Silsbee, “Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen brings Jewish style to Brazilian music” Jewish Journal, May 3, 2017. http://jewishjournal.com/culture/218589/israeli-clarinetist-brings-jewish-style-brazilian-music/
Michael Singh, “Syria After the Missile Strikes: Policy Options,” Testimony submitted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, April 27, 2017. https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/hearing-syria-missile-strikes-policy-options/
Jonathan Spyer, “Assad’s Hollow Crown,” MERIA Journal, Winter 2016.
http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/05/assads-hollow-crown/
Jessica Steinberg, “Israel’s filmmakers are country’s ambassadors, says film school pioneer,” Times of Israel, May 8, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/israels-filmmakers-are-countrys-ambassadors/
Sharon Udasin, “Israel, Japan Sign Economic Cyber Cooperation Agreement,” Jerusalem Post, May 3, 2017. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-Japan-sign-economic-cyber-cooperation-agreements-489647
Sharon Usadin, “Israeli tech company behind Iron Dome system to help sync New Zealand electricity grid,” Times of Israel, May 7, 2017. www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Tech/Israeli-start-up-behind-Iron-Dome-system-to-help-sync-New-Zealand-electricity-grid-489985
Isabelle Werenfels and Ilya Saliba, “No Rivals to the King-The Limits to Political Reform in Morocco’s “Enlightened Authoritarianism, May 17, 2017. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/morocco-no-rivals-to-the-king/
Amos Yadlin and Eldad Shavit, “President Trump’s Visit to the Middle East,” INSS, May 22, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/publication/president-trumps-visit-middle-east/?offset=0&posts=930&type=399
Issac Zabloki, “It’s Not All Politics In Israeli Films,” Forward, May 8, 2017. http://forward.com/scribe/371313/its-not-all-politics-in-israeli-films/

#50 Contemporary Readings, April 2017
May 6, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Khaled Abu Toameh, “Palestinians’s Real Enemies: Arabs,” Gatestone Institute, April 17, 2017. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10210/palestinians-enemies
Yaakov Amidror, “Israel’s Inelegant Options in Judea and Samaria: Withdrawal, Annexation, and Conflict Management,” BESA Center, April 23, 2017. https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MSPS129_EN.pdf
Inbal Arieli, “In Israeli culture, failure is an option,” Israel21c, April 13, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/in-israeli-culture-failure-is-an-option/
Lidia Averbukh, “Israel on the Road to the Orient?The Cultural and Political Rise of the Mizrahim,” SWP Berlin, April 2017. https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2017C09_avk.pdf
Ramzy Baroud, “How Israel Understands the Arab Peace Initiative,” Al-Ahram Weekly, April 6-12, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20122.aspx
Burak Bekdil. “Turks Vote to Give Away Their Democracy,” The Gatestone Institute, April 18, 2017. http://www.meforum.org/6654/turks-vote-to-give-away-their-democracy
Seth Borenstein, “Scientists leave labs, take to streets to defend research,” Times of Israel, April 22, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/scientists-leave-labs-take-to-streets-to-defend-research/
Soner Cagaptay, “Turkey in Crisis,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 18, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/turkey-in-crisis
Zach Cutler, “5 Lessons Entrepreneurs Worldwide Can Learn From Israeli Culture,” Economic Times, April 6, 017. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/286573
Oded Eran and Yotam Rosner, “The United States Attack in Syria: A Change in Europe-Trump Relations?” INSS, April 27, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13328
Dina Ezzat “A Political Honeymoon (Cairo and Washington-relationship review), Al-Ahram Weekly, April 6-12, April 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20135.aspx
Tim Ferhnholtz, “The Israeli finalist in Google’s $20 million race to the moon won’t make it to the starting line,” Yahoo Finace News, April 21, 2017. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/israeli-finalist-google-20-million-122525024.html
Andrew Friedman/TPS, Itamar Eichner, “Cyber Authority thwarts massive attack on Israel,” Ynet News, April 26, 2017. www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4954171,00.html
Shiryn Ghermezian, “Israel’s Female Soldiers: A Difficult Balance of Equality and Military Reality,” Algemeiner, April14, 2017. https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/04/14/israels-female-soldiers-a-difficult-balance-of-equality-and-military-reality/
Israel21c Staff, “ISRAEL21c goes Hollywood with new ’21see’ film series,” Israel21c, May 4, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/israel21c-goes-hollywood-with-new-21see-film-series/
Zipi Israeli, “The National Security Index, Public Support for an Arrangement Based on the Two-State Solution, INSS, April 6, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13261
Annie Karni, “Trump’s surprisingly conventional Israel policy,” Politico, April 5, 2017. www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-israel-middle-east-236878
Abigail Klein Lichtman, “Glowing bacteria detect buried landmines,” Israel21c, April 18, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/glowing-bacteria-detect-buried-landmines/
Mona Koehler-Schindler, Manuel Schubert, and Imke Haase, “Jordan’s cabinet re-(re) shuffled A window of Opportunity in Jordan?” Konrad Adenauer Foundation, February 2017. http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_47939-544-2-30.pdf?170220134609
Nur Köprülü, “Is Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Still the Loyal Opposition?” Middle East Quarterly. Spring 2017. http://www.meforum.org/6560/is-jordan-muslim-brotherhood-still-the-loyal
Michael K. Lavers, “New group defends integrated Israel military,” Washington Blade, April 20, 2017. www.washingtonblade.com/2017/04/20/new-group-defends-integrated-israel-military/
Eran Lerman, “Mahmoud Abbas Goes to Washington: What is at Stake?” BESA Center, April 27, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/mahmoud-abbas-goes-washington-stake/
Elior Levy, “Barghouti receives a cold shoulder from Palestinian leadership,” Ynet News, April 18, 2017. www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4950514,00.html
Yves Mamou, “France’s War to Delegitimize Israel,” Gatestone Institute, April 12, 2017. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10082/france-israel-delegitimization
Hisham Melhem, “Reflections on a revolution (Syria) betrayed,” al-Arabiyah, March 18, 2017. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2017/03/18/Reflections-on-a-revolution-betrayed.html
Otmar Oehring, “Christians in Syria: Current Situation and Future Outlook,” Konrad Adenauer Foundation, February 2017. http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_47863-544-2-30.pdf?170308105716
Viva Sarah Press, “Israeli high-school students launch nano-satellite into space,” Israel21c, Aprill 23, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-high-school-students-launch-nano-satellite-into-space/
Hassan al-Qishwi, “Syrian (refugee) Question in Lebanon, Al-Ahram Weekly, April 6-12, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/20136.aspx
Liza Schoenfein, “Israel top Chef Brings Haute Middle Eastern to Manhattan,” Forward, April 28, 2017. http://forward.com/food/370397/israels-top-chef-brings-haute-middle-eastern-to-manhattan/
Ronni Shaked and Itamar Radai, “Arab Idol”: A Palestinian Victory, At Last,” Dayan Center, April 30, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/arab-idol-palestinian-victory-last
Daniel Shapiro, Mattis’ Mideast trip holds promise, reality check for Israel,” Al-Monitor, April 20, 2017. www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/04/mattis-mideast-trip-israel.html
Shoshanna Solomon, “Investment in Israeli tech firms slides 8% in 1Q, report says,” Times of Israel, April 26, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/investment-in-israeli-tech-firms-slides-8-in-1q-report-says/
Yedida Stern, “Israel at 69 — Not What You Think,” Israel Democracy Institute, April 27, 2017. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/14429
Times of Israel Staff, “Roger Waters says Radiohead determined to play Tel Aviv,” Times of Israel, April 20, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/roger-waters-says-radiohead-determined-to-play-tel-aviv/
Yaroslav Trofimov, “Trump’s Push for Mideast Deal Perplexes Israeli Right,” The Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2017. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-push-for-mideast-deal-perplexes-israeli-right-1491471002
David Wainer, “Israel Asks Itself How Long It Can Sit on the Shekel,” Bloomberg, April 18, 2017. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-18/israel-asks-itself-how-long-it-can-sit-on-the-shekel
Raoul Wootliff, “Israeli minister slams ‘outrageous’ White House Holocaust statements,” Times of Israel, April 12, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-minister-slams-outrageous-white-house-holocaust-statements/
Naomi Zeveloff, “Under 50’s Think West Bank Is Part Of Israel,” Forward, April 27, 2017. http://forward.com/fast-forward/370221/under-50s-think-west-bank-is-part-of-israel/

#49 Contemporary Readings, March 2017
April 5, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Raphael Ahren, Israel aims to become world’s 15th largest economy by 2025 — minister,” Times of Israel, March 19, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-aims-to-become-worlds-15th-largest-economy-by-2025-minister/
Inbal Arieli, “How Israeli culture promotes creativity and independence,” Israel 21c, March 28, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/how-israeli-culture-promotes-creativity-and-independence/
Abdel Bari Atwan, “Time for a Change in Fatah (highly critical of the PA),” Rialalyoum, March 2, 2017. http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=631474
Burak Bekdil, “Turkey: A Sunni Iran in the Making?” The BESA Center, March 22, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkey-sunni-iran-making/
Seth J Frantzman, “Terra Incognita: European and Israeli Politics are converging,” Jerusalem Post, March 19, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Terra-Incognita-European-and-Israeli-politics-are-converging-484616
Evyatar Friesel, “The Inverted Ideological Pyramids of Anti-Zionist Jews: The Case of Moshe Zuckermann,” BESA Center, March 30, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/inverted-ideological-pyramids-anti-zionist-jews-case-moshe-zuckermann/
Hillel Frisch, “Becoming Part of Jordan and Egypt: A Palestinian Economic Imperative,” BESA Center, March 15, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/becoming-part-jordan-egypt-palestinian-economic-imperative/
Susan B Glasser, “Yair Lapid: The Full Transcript,” Politico, March 24, 2017. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/susan-glasser-yair-lapid-transcript-214909
Paul Goldman, “Iran’s Shahin Najafi and Israel’s Aviv Geffen Come Together in Song,” NBC, March 3, 2017. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-s-shahin-najafi-israel-s-aviv-geffen-come-together-n728136
Judah Ari Gross, “Ya’alon lays out Mideast vision, which resembles Netanyahu’s,” Times of Israel, March 15, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/yaalon-lays-out-mideast-vision-which-resembles-netanyahus/
Gershon Hacohen, “War: The School of Life (Operation Protective Edge, 2014-2015),” BESA Center, March 7, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/war-school-life/
Dana Hadra, “On the life and legacy of Yitzhak Rabin,” Brookings, March 14, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/03/14/on-the-life-and-legacy-of-yitzhak-rabin/
Simon Henderson and David Schenker, “The Quiet Advance of Eastern Mediterranean Gas,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 8, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-quiet-advance-of-eastern-mediterranean-gas
Liam Hoare, “1967 Nathan Alterman or Amos Oz” The Six Day war and Israeli Literature,” Fathom, Spring 2017. http://fathomjournal.org/1967-natan-alterman-or-amos-oz-the-six-day-war-and-israeli-literature/
Jessica Holzer, “Israeli Travel Ban Draws Fire,” Foreign Policy, March 7, 2017. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/07/israeli-travel-ban-draws-fire/
Efraim Inbar, “President Trump Wants a Peace Process Too,” The BESA Center, March 21, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/president-trump-wants-peace-process/
Alex Joffe, “Palestinians and the Balfour Declaration at 100: Resisting the Past,” BESA Center, March 26, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/palestinians-balfour-declaration-100-resisting-past/
Joyce van de Bildt – de Jong, “Nostalgia for the Monarchy in Egypt,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Tel Aviv University, March 30, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/nostalgia-monarchy-egypt-english
Ron Kampeas, “Searching For Common Ground Amid Divisions At AIPAC,” Forward, March 28, 2017. http://forward.com/news/israel/367406/searching-for-common-ground-amid-divisions-at-aipac/
Herb Keinon, “Netanyahu Wants Foreign Ministry to Hightlighting China and India,” Jerusalem Post, March 6, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Netanyahu-wants-Foreign-Ministry-to-highlight-China-and-India-483397
Ofer Kenig, “Status of Women in Israeli Politics: The Good, the Bad and The Road to Full Equality,” Jerusalem Post, March 8, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Status-of-women-in-Israeli-politics-The-good-the-bad-and-the-road-to-full-equality-483566
Alexey Khlebnikov, “Changing Dynamics in the Syrian Crisis,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Marc 30, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/changing-dynamics-syrian-crisis
Matthais Kuntzel, “Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel,” Fathom, Spring 2017. http://fathomjournal.org/1967-nassers-antisemitic-war-against-israel/#_edn53
Maayan Lubell and Lianne Back, “Israel looks to leverage tech in $50 billion medical marijuana market,” Reuters, March 23, 2017. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-cannabis-idUSKBN16U1PZ
Ingrid Lunden, “Intel buys Mobileye in $15.3B deal, moves its automotive unit to Israel,” TechCrunch, March 13, 2017. https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/13/reports-intel-buying-mobileye-for-up-to-16b-to-expand-in-self-driving-tech/
Zvi Magen and Udi Dekel, “Remaking Syria: A Military Update, the Diplomatic Situation, and the Israeli Angle,” INSS, March 27, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13176
Abdel- Moneim Said, “Disecting the Regional Order- The Arab order remains in Peril,” Al-Ahram Weekly, February 9-15, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/19583.aspx
Ibrahim Nawar, “Hammering out a New Middle East,” Al-Ahram Weekly, March 2-8, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/19803.aspx
Assaf Orion, “From the State Comptroller’s Report on Operation Protective Edge to the Next Campaign,” INSS, March 28, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13196
Viva Sarah Press, “12 of the hippest emerging Israeli bands,” Israel 21c, March 26, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/12-of-the-hippest-emerging-israeli-bands/
Paul Rivlin, “Turkey’s Economy is Paying the Price,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Tel Aviv University, March 30, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/turkeys-economy-paying-price
Robert Satloff, “Burning Questions for Trump on the Middle East: We Still Don’t Know Where His Gut Instincts Are,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 7, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/burning-questions-for-trump-on-the-middle-east-we-still-dont-know-where-his
David Schenker, “How the United States Should Help Protect Jordan from the Chaos Next Door,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 22, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-the-united-states-should-help-protect-jordan-from-the-chaos-next-door
David Schenker, “President Trump Talks Terror with Egypt’s Sisi,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 30, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/president-trump-talks-terror-with-egypts-sisi
Curt Schleier, “Delicious Doc Puts Israeli Food Center Stage,” Forward, March 22, 2017. http://forward.com/food/366766/delicious-doc-puts-israeli-food-center-stage/
Amnon Shashua, “Israel’s hands-off tech entrepreneur,” Financial Times, March 17, 2017. https://www.ft.com/content/3d091920-0970-11e7-ac5a-903b21361b43
Eldad Shavit, Sima Shine, and Anna Catran, “Iran and the United States under the Trump Administration,” INSS, March 6, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13108
Shoshanna Solomon, “Bank of Israel’s Flug says Israel must spend more on infrastructure, education,” Times of Israel, March 29, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/bank-of-israels-flug-says-israel-must-spend-more-on-infrastructure-education/
Shoshanna Solomon, “With Israeli tech, self-driving cars are becoming a reality,” Times of Israel, March 13, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/with-israeli-tech-self-driving-cars-are-becoming-a-reality/
Kenneth W. Stein, “The June 1967 War: How it changed Jewish, Israeli, and Middle Eastern History,” Center for Israel Education, March 2017, https://israeled.org/product/june1967/
Jessica Steinberg, “Belgian-Israeli singer Hagar Levy finds her voice, and audience,” Times of Israel, March 20, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/belgian-israeli-singer-hagar-levy-finds-her-voice-and-audience/
Hannah Stuart, “Islamist Terrorism Analysis of Offences and Attacks in the UK (1998-2015),” Henry Jackson Society, March 5, 2017. http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Islamist-Terrorism-preview-1.pdf
Asher Susser, “1967 The Six Day War was a watershed in Middle Eastern History,” Fathom, Spring 2017. http://fathomjournal.org/the-six-day-war-was-a-watershed-in-middle-eastern-history/
Amir Taheri, “Iran and Turkey: Two-Bit Players in a Deadly Game,” Asharq al-Awsat, March 31, 2017. http://english.aawsat.com/amir-taheri/opinion/iran-turkey-two-bit-players-deadly-game
Cmdr. Jeremy Vaughan, USN and Simon Henderson, “Bab al-Mandab Shipping Chokepoint Under Threat. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 1, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/bab-al-mandab-shipping-chokepoint-under-threat
Matan Vinai, Assaf Orion, and Galia Levi, “Israel and China: Toward a Comprehensive Innovative Partnership,” INSS, March 19, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13158
Michael Walzer, “1967 Remembering the Six-Day War,” Fathom, Spring 2017. http://fathomjournal.org/1967-remembering-the-six-day-war/
Deborah Weinswig, “Retail Tech Innovation Is Booming In Israel,” Forbes, March 10, 2017. https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahweinswig/2017/03/10/retail-tech-innovation-is-booming-in-israel-top-three-insights-from-our-innovation-technology-tour/#28cbce812078
Enat Wilf, “As long as the Arab world views Israel as a temporary aberration to be conquered, Israel will stand fast,” Fathom, Spring 2017. http://fathomjournal.org/1967-as-long-as-the-arab-world-views-israel-as-a-temporary-aberration-to-be-conquered-israel-will-stand-fast/
Amos Yadlin and Kobi Michael, “The Palestinian ‘Internationalization Strategy:’ End of the Road?” INSS, March 21, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13168

#48 Contemporary Readings, February 2017
March 7, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Yaacov Amidror, “Tread Carefully with the New US Administration,” BESA Center, February 16, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/tread-carefully-new-us-administration/
Hady Amr, “How Palestinian schools can take Israel and the region closer to peace,” Brookings Institute, February 23, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/02/23/how-palestinian-schools-can-take-israel-and-the-region-closer-to-peace/
Alan Baker, “Two State Solution, What Does it Actually mean,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 2017. http://jcpa.org/pdf/Jerusalem_Viewpoints_no609_feb2017.pdf
Yoni Ben-Menachem, “The Palestinian Authority’s Succession Struggle Continues,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 23, 2017. http://jcpa.org/palestinian-authoritys-succession-struggle-continues/
Ilan Ben-Tzion, “How One Jerusalem Joint Is Dealing with Israel’s Terrible Restaurant Wages,” Munchies Blog – Vice News, February 15, 2017. https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/how-one-jerusalem-joint-is-dealing-with-israels-terrible-restaurant-wages
Shlomo Brom and Ofir Winter, “Israel and the New Leaf in Egypt-Hamas Relations,” INSS, February 16, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13052
Itamar Eichner, “Tel Aviv high school joins Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” Ynet News, February 26, 2017. www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4927777,00.html
Meir Elran, Eran Yashiv, Muhammed Abu Nasra, and Alon Rieger, “Report on the Five-Year Economic Development Plan for Minority Groups,” INSS, February 21, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13061
Andrew Friedman, “Rivlin, Deri inaugurate Haredi business hub in Jerusalem,” Ynet News, February 25, 2017. www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4927300,00.html
Malini Goyal, “Israel, a startup oasis in the middle of a war zone,” The Economic Times, February 19, 2017. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/israel-a-startup-oasis-in-the-middle-of-a-war-zone/articleshow/57225306.cms
Yoel Guzansky and Kobi Michael, “The Trump Presidency and the Pragmatic Sunni Regimes,” INSS, February 22, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=13062
Jehuda Hadad, “The Solution to Israel’s Shortage of Hi-Tech Workers Lies in the Periphery,” Jerusalem Post, February 20, 2017. www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-solution-to-Israels-shortage-of-hi-tech-workers-lies-in-the-periphery-482117
Tzachi Hanegbi and Itamar Rabinovich, “President Trump and the Middle East: Views from Israel,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 2, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/president-trump-and-the-middle-east-views-from-israel
Hillel Frisch and Yitzhak Sokoloff, “Trump, the Mideast Conflict, and the Jordanian Option,” BESA Center, February 6, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/trump-mideast-conflict-jordanian-option/
Amira Howeidy, “Departing from the Two-state solution [Palestinians are clear why they want one-state, no Israel],” Al-Ahram Weekly, February 28, 2017. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/19743.aspx
Israel21c Staff, “Archaeologists find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls cave, but no scrolls,” Israel21c, February 9, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/archaeologists-find-12th-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-but-no-scrolls/
Jewish People Policy Institute Staff, “Shifting Trends in the West and their Impact on Israel and the Jewish People,” Jewish People Policy Institute, February 23, 2017. http://jppi.org.il/new/en/article/english-shifting-trends-in-the-west-and-their-impact-on-israel-and-the-jewish-people/#.WLTf41UrLcs
Bruce Jones, “A call for continuity from America’s Middle East allies,” Brookings Institute, February 20, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/02/20/a-call-for-continuity-from-americas-middle-east-allies/
Adi Kantor and Oded Eran, “2017 – A Year of Difficult Tests for Europe,” INSS, February 7, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12976
Herb Keinon, “Israel is Clearly Pivoting to Asia, Netanyahu Announces in Singapore,” Jerusalem Post, February 21, 2017. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Israel-is-clearly-pivoting-to-Asia-Netanyahu-announces-in-Singapore-482131
Rami G. Khouri, “Why our behavior matters, and most Arab states may not,” Agence Global, February 7, 2017. http://agenceglobal.com/2017/02/07/why-our-behavior-matters-and-most-arab-states-may-not/
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Why US corporate giants like Intel need fresh Israeli tech,” Israel21c, February 20, 2017. https://www.israel21c.org/why-us-corporate-giants-like-intel-need-fresh-israeli-tech/
Tamar Kogman, “BDS: The European-Funded ‘Grassroots’ Campaigns,” Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2017. www.jpost.com/Opinion/BDS-The-European-funded-grassroots-campaigns-480566
Hillel Koren, “Bank of Israel keeps March rate unchanged,” Globes, February 27, 2017. www.globes.co.il/en/article-bank-of-israel-keeps-march-rate-unchanged-1001178779
David Makovsky, “Beyond One State: Preliminary Conclusions from the Netanyahu Meeting,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 17, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/beyond-one-state-preliminary-conclusions-from-the-netanyahu-meeting
Jonathan Mayo, “Cementing Israel’s Ties to America’s Pastime [Baseball],” The Jewish Chronical, February 9, 2017. http://thejewishchronicle.net/view/full_story/27357115/article-Cementing-Israel-s-ties-to-America-s-pastime?instance=secondary_stories_right_column
Aaron David Miller, “Why Trump’s Love Affair with Netanyahu Won’t Last,” The Wilson Center, February 13, 2017. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/why-trumps-love-affair-netanyahu-wont-last
Jessica Noll, “Egypt’s Armed Forces Cement Economic Power,” SWP Berlin, February 2017. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/egypts-armed-forces-cement-economic-power/
Einat Paz-Frankel, “Tel Aviv University in Top Ten List for Most Billion-Dollar Startup Founders,” No Camels, February 7, 2017. http://nocamels.com/2017/02/tel-aviv-university-unicorn-founders/
Reuters, “Investors Bet on Israeli Tech Stock Windfall Under Trump,” Fortune, February 21, 2017. http://fortune.com/2017/02/21/investors-israel-tech-stock-windfall-trump/
Paul Rivlin, “The Egyptian Economy: The Plot Thickens,” Iqtisadi, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Easter Studies, February 23, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/egyptian-economy-plot-thickens
Gabriel Sanders, “Star Chef Offers Israeli-Hungarian Fusion in New York,” Tablet, February17, 2017. www.tabletmag.com/scroll/225343/star-chef-offers-israeli-hungarian-fusion-in-new-york
Robert Satloff, David Makovsky, and Yoaz Hendel, “Trump-Netanyahu Meeting: A Reset for U.S.-Israel Relations (audio presentation),” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, February 7, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/trump-netanyahu-meeting-a-rest-for-u.s.-israel-relations
Uri Savir, “What a Palestine-Jordan confederation might look like,” Al-Monitor, February 26, 2017. www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/02/israel-palestinians-jordan-egypt-two-state-confederation.html
Eli Sperling, “MLK’s Support for Israel Clear in Letters,” Atlanta Jewish Times, February 19, 2017. http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/mlks-support-for-israel-clear-in-letters/
Ken Stein, “The June 1967 War: Actions with Unfinished Consequences,” Center for Israel Education, February 13, 2017. https://israeled.org/june-1967-war-actions-unfinished-consequences/
Itay Stern, “Performers are flooding Israel: A sign of the cultural boycott’s failure?” Haaretz, February 19, 2017. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/.premium-1.772686
Tova Tzimuki, “The New Supreme Court: More conservative, more right-wing,” Ynet News, February 23, 2017. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4926529,00.html
Times of Israel Staff, “In clip, Natalie Portman teaches Hebrew slang,” Times of Israel, February 7, 2017. www.timesofisrael.com/in-clip-natalie-portman-teaches-hebrew-slang/
Sharon Udasin, “Flug Israeli economy is strong but must become more inclusive,” Jerusalem Post, February 6, 2017. www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Flug-Israeli-economy-is-strong-but-must-become-more-inclusive-480674
Raoul Wootliff, “[Israeli] Politicians gird for battle ahead of contentious 2014 Gaza War report,” Times of Israel, February 27, 2016. www.timesofisrael.com/politicians-gird-for-battle-ahead-of-contentious-2014-gaza-war-report/
Sarah Yerkes, “Why Netanyahu’s supporters should not celebrate his meeting with Trump,” Brookings Institute, February 12, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/02/21/why-netanyahus-supporters-should-not-celebrate-his-meeting-with-trump/
Jim Zanotti, “Background and US Relations in Brief,” Congressional Research Service, February 9, 2017. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/R44245.pdf

#47 Contemporary Readings, January 2017
February 6, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Muhammad Aal Al-Sheikh (Saudi Journalist), “The Palestinians’ Reliance on Armed Resistance is Political Suicide: The Palestinian Cause is no Longer the Arabs’ Primary Concern,” MEMRI, January 26, 2017. https://www.memri.org/reports/saudi-journalist-palestinians-reliance-armed-resistance-political-suicide-palestinian-cause
Gwen Ackerman, “Israeli Cybersecurity Industry Grows as Global Threats Multiply,” Bloomberg News, January 26, 2017. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/israeli-cybersecurity-industry-grows-as-global-threats-multiply
AFP, “Israel raises height of barrier on Egypt border,” AFP, January 17, 2017. http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/256290/Egypt/Politics-/Israel-raises-height-of-barrier-on-Egypt-border.aspx
Raphael Ahren, “Top Netanyahu aide: World won’t boycott our high-tech for Palestinians,” Times of Israel, January 12, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-netanyahu-aide-world-wont-boycott-our-high-tech-for-palestinians/
Alan Baker, “Ten False Assumptions Regarding Israel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 15, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/ten-false-assumptions-regarding-israel/
Alan Baker, “Debunking 11 More False Assumptions Regarding Israel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 10, 2017, http://jcpa.org/article/debunking-more-false-assumptions-regarding-israel/
Alan Baker and Hirsh Goodman, “Unilateral Withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem – Legal Observations,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 2017. http://jcpa.org/the-dangers-of-a-unilateral-israeli-withdrawal-from-the-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem/#_chpt10
Yonah Jeremy Bob, “Ex CIA Chief Rejects Report Israel Was Warned of Sharing Intel with Trump,” Jerusalem Post, January 16, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Ex-CIA-chief-rejects-report-Israel-was-warned-of-sharing-intel-with-Trump-478657
Amichai Cohen, “Could the Settlement Regulation Bill Lead to an international legal battle for Israel,” Israel Democracy Institute, January 13, 2017. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/12315
Barry Davis, “Music: Andalusian for All,” Jerusalem Post, January 12, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Music-Andalusian-for-all-478272
Oded Eran and Udi Dekel “Secretary of State Kerry’s Speech on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” NSS Insight No. 885, January 2, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12750
Dr. Shlomo Fischer, “Religious Zionism in Israel Today: Towards the Center,” The Jewish People Policy Institute, November 29, 2016. http://jppi.org.il/news/199/58/Religious-Zionism-in-Israel-Today-Towards-the-Center/
Dr. Shlomo Fischer, “Patterns of Jewish Collective Identity Among Israeli Jews,” The Jewish People Policy Institute, November 29, 2016. http://jppi.org.il/news/200/58/Patterns-of-Jewish-Collective-Identity-among-Israeli-Jews/
Hillel Frisch, “Kerry’s Attack on Israel: A Failed Attempt to Divert Attention from Obama’s Disastrous Foreign Policy,” BESA Center, January 2, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/390-frisch-kerrys-attack-on-israel-a-failed-attempt-to-divert-attention-from-obamas-disastrous-foreign-policy/
Adam Garfinkle, “Revolution Convolutions”(On UNSCR 2334 and “Perils” in US-Israel Relations), Foreign Policy Research Institute, December 29, 2016. http://www.fpri.org/article/2016/12/resolution-convolutions/
Mordechai Goldman, “The secret nightlife of Jerusalem’s old market,” al-Monitor, January 27, 2017. http://al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/israel-jerusalem-market-ultra-orthodox-nightlife-terror.html
Hirsch Goodman, “The Dangers of a Unilateral Israeli Withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 2017. http://jcpa.org/the-dangers-of-a-unilateral-israeli-withdrawal-from-the-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem/#_chpt10
Gershon Hacohen, “A Two-State Solution? Just Not According to the Clinton Parameters,” BESA Center, January 30, 2017. https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/two-state-solution-just-not-according-clinton-parameters/
Rabbi Donniel Hartman, “To Pardon the rebellious son?” Y—Net, January 11, 2017. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4903617,00.html
Ari Heistein, “Trump, Israel, and the American Jewish Community,” INSS, January 19, 2017. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12836
i24News Staff, “Coldplay planning unprecedented Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace concert’ at Dead Sea,” i24News, January 10, 2017. http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/134728-170110-coldplay-planning-unprecedented-israeli-palestinian-peace-concert-at-dead-sea
Efraim Inbar, “Jerusalem is the Center of Gravity,” BESA Center, January 19, 2017. https://livestream.com/washinstitute/events/6923832
Pinhas Inbari, “Can the Palestinians Mobilize the Arab World on the U.S. Embassy Issue?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 31, 2017. http://jcpa.org/article/palestinian-reactions-u-s-embassy-move-jerusalem/
Martin S. Indyk, “How a U.S. embassy in Jerusalem could actually jump-start the peace process,” Brookings Institute, January 5, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/01/03/u-s-abstention-on-israeli-settlements-resolution-neither-sensible-nor-productive/
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Biggest investor event in Israel to showcase startup magic,” Israel21c, January 25, 2017. http://www.israel21c.org/biggest-investor-event-in-israel-to-showcase-startup-magic/
Yossi Kuperwasser, “Trump’s Big Decision on Iran,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 7, 2016. http://jcpa.org/trumps-big-decision-iran/
Zvi Magen, “Russia-United States Relations under the Trump Administration: Implications for the Middle East,” INSS, January 4, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12768
David Makovsky and Dennis Ross, “Toward a New Paradigm for Addressing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Washington Institute for Near East Peace, January 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/toward-a-new-paradigm-for-addressing-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict
Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, “Iranian-Saudi Tensions Are Played Out in Bahrain,”
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 11, 2017. http://jcpa.org/article/iranian-saudi-tensions-played-bahrain/
Arad Nir, “Current Israel-Turkey relations as expressed by the media,” The Moshe Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, January, 2017. http://dayan.org/content/current-israel-turkey-relations-expressed-media
Viva Sarah Press, “15 Israelis making a mark on Silicon Valley’s tech scene,” Israel21c, January 12, 2017. http://www.israel21c.org/15-israelis-making-a-mark-on-silicon-valleys-tech-scene/
Paul Rivlin, “The Arab Human Disaster Report, The Arab World Five Years After: Part 2,” The Moshe Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, January 2017. http://dayan.org/content/arab-human-disaster-report-arab-world-five-years-after-part-2
Grant Rumley, “Abbas on the Ropes: How the Next US Administration Could Add to his Problems,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, January 21, 2017. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/grant-rumley-abbas-on-the-ropes/
Robert Satloff, “The New Administration Must Restore Intimacy and Common Purpose to the Bilateral Partnership,” National Interest, January 3, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/can-trump-overcome-obamas-israel-failure
Robert Satloff, “Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem: From Campaign Promise to Policy Challenge,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January, 2017. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/Transition2017-Embassy-FINAL.pdf
Uri Savir, “After Paris — a Moscow conference on Mideast peace?” al-Monitor, January 22, 2017. http://al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/israel-palestine-paris-ii-conference-moscow-putin-trump.html
Shoshana Solomon, “Israel Innovation Authority calls for more tech labs,” Times of Israel, January 17, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-innovation-authority-calls-for-more-tech-labs/
Eli Sperling, “The Phenomenon of Elite Israeli Jazz,” Atlanta Jewish Times, January 11, 2017. http://atlantajewishtimes.com/2017/01/phenomenon-elite-israeli-jazz/
Joseph Spoerl, “How Obama and Kerry Betrayed Israel at the UN,” American Thinker, January 29, 2017.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/01/how_obama_and_kerry_betrayed_israel_at_the_un.html
Jessica Steinberg, “Meir Banai, 55, led Israeli music into a more soulful space,” Times of Israel, January 13, 2017.http://www.timesofisrael.com/meir-banai-55-led-israeli-music-into-a-more-soulful-space/
Luke Tress, “Blues musicians look to strike a chord in Tel Aviv festival,” Times of Israel, January 12, 2017. http://www.timesofisrael.com/blues-musicians-look-to-strike-a-chord-in-tel-aviv-festival/
Sharon Udasin, “Israeli Japanese partnerships on business tech blossoming,” Jerusalem Post, January 24, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Israeli-Japanese-partnerships-on-business-tech-blossoming-479463
Benjamin Weinthal, “Germany’s Split Personality: Courts Favor Antisemites, BDS Takes Hits,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, January 21, 2017. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/benjamin-weinthal-germanys-split-personality-courts-favor-antisemites-bds-takes-hits/
Michael Wilner, “Prime Minister May Aligns the UK with GOP on Israel and Iran,” ,” Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2017. http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Prime-Minister-May-aligns-the-UK-with-GOP-on-Israel-and-Iran-479745
Jim Zanotti, “US-Israel Relations,” Congressional Research Service, January 7, 2017. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/R44245.pdf

#46 Contemporary Readings, December 2016
January 9, 2017Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Elliott Abrams and Michael Singh, “The United States just Made Middle East Peace harder,” The Washington Post, December 23, 2016. http://tinyurl.com/gq7owhd
Alan Baker, “The Dangers of UN Security Council Resolution 2334,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, December 26, 2016. http://jcpa.org/dangers-un-security-council-resolution-2334-2016/
Nahum Barnea, “Netanyahu has sown the wind, Israel is reaping the whirlwind,” Y-net News, December 25, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4898086,00.html
Nahum Barnea, “Kerry’s Failure, Netanyahu’s Liberation,” Y-Net News, January 2, 2017. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4901775,00.html
Eyal Bino, “5 Bold Predictions For Israeli Tech In 2017,” Forbes, December 29, 2016. http://www.forbes.com/sites/eyalbino/2016/12/29/5-bold-predictions-for-israeli-tech-in-2017/#994f2797304c
Nicky Blackburn, “31 reasons 2016 was actually a great year,” Israel21c, December 28, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/31-reasons-2016-was-actually-a-great-year/
Stephane Cohen, “Despite the challenges emerging on the horizon, Israel is well positioned to welcome 2017,” Jerusalem Post, December 26, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Israel-in-a-nutshell-Summarizing-2016-476604
Kate Connolly, “Daniel Barenboim opens Berlin music academy for Middle East students,” The Guardian, December, 8, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/08/daniel-barenboim-opens-berlin-music-academy-for-middle-east-students
Glenn Kenny, “Movie Review: The Team That Put Israeli Basketball ‘On the Map’” New York Times, December 8, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/movies/on-the-map-review.html
Shlomi Daskal, “Nazareth Illit: From Judaization of the Galilee to a Mixed City, Vision versus Reality,” The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, December 26, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/nazareth-illit-judaization-galilee-mixed-city-vision-versus-reality
Barry Davis, “Music: Love, Ethiopian style,” Jerusalem Post, December 8, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Music-Love-Ethiopian-style-474849
Meir Elran, “The Fires across Israel: Insights and Lessons for National Security,” INSS, December 12, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=5154&page=1
Oded Eran, “Jordan-Israel Relations: Normalization in the Shadow of Political Deadlock,” INSS, December 1, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/uploadImages/systemFiles/No.%20873%20-%20Oded%20for%20web.pdf
Yoram Ettinger, “Israel’s Economy Defies BDS,” The Jewish Press, December 12, 2016. http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/the-ettinger-report/israels-economy-defies-bds/2016/12/12/
Shmuel Even and Eran Yashiv, “The Defense Budget for 2017-2018,” INSS, December 28, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12711
Caroline Glick, “Column One: Obama and Israel, strike and counter-strike,” The Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Obama-and-Israel-strike-and-counter-strike-476948
Mark Goldfeder, “Kerry and Obama can change policy, not history or law,” The Hill, December 29, 2016. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/312106-kerry-and-obama-can-change-policy-not-history-or-law
Mark Goldfeder, “Obama administration was hypocritical on UN’s Israel’s settlements vote,” CNN, December 26, 2016. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/opinions/us-role-in-israel-un-vote-was-hypocritical-goldfeder/
Evelyn Gordon, “Disorder in the [Israeli Supreme] Court,” with responses, Mosaic, December 6, 2016. https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2016/12/disorder-in-the-court/
Eitan Haber, “Things Look Different from the White House [includes moving the US embassy to Jersualem,” Y-Net News, December 26, 2012. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4895770,00.html
Ephraim Kam, “Iran: Naval Bases in Syria and in Yemen?” INSS, December 21, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12690
KKL/Jewish National Fund Staff, “Israeli Water Technology Changing the World,” Jerusalem Post, December 14, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Green-Israel/Israeli-Water-Technology-Changing-the-World-475364
Abigail Klein Leichman, “15 ways Israel amazed and inspired the world in 2016,” Israel21c, December 19, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/15-ways-israel-amazed-and-inspired-the-world-in-2016/
Zeev Klein, “Defeating projections, Israeli economy grows by 3.5% in 2016,” Israel Hayom, December 29, 2016. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=39145
Yoni Kempinski, “F-35 boasts Israeli technology, can challenge Iranian threat,” Arutz Sheva, December 12, 2016. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221626
Michael Kopolow, “UNSCR 2334,”in Israel and Ottomans Blogpost, December 27, 2016. https://ottomansandzionists.com/2016/12/27/unscr-2334/
Mitchel Hochberg, “Israel’s Amona Compromise May Bolster the Settler Movement,”
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 28, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-amona-compromise-may-bolster-the-settler-movement
Eran Lerman, “UNSCR 2334: A Disservice to the Cause of Peace,” December 26, 2016, Begin Sadat Center Perspective Papers, http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/389-lerman-unscr-2334-a-disservice-to-the-cause-of-peace/
Eran Lerman, “After Aleppo: Iran’s Ascendency and Its Implications,” Begin Sadat Center Perspective Papers, December 22, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/388-lerman-after-aleppoirans-ascendancy-and-its-implications/
David Makovsky, “Early Implications of the UN Settlements Resolution,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 27, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/early-implications-of-the-un-settlements-resolution
David Makovsky, “Kerry’s Speech: Some Continuity, Some Disconnect,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 29, 2016.
Cliff May, “Throwing Israel to the U.N. Wolves,” The Washington Times, December 27, 2016. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/27/obama-throwing-israel-to-the-uns-wolves/
Hisham Melhem, “Good riddance to a calamitous year,” al-‘Arabiya, December 24, 2016.
Galal Nassar, “The only way is up [The Middle East and Egypt hit rock bottom this past year] Al-Ahram Weekly, December 22, 2016. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/19181/17/The-only-way-is-up.aspx
Becca Noy, “Musician Ahuva Ozeri passes away at 68 after long battle with cancer,” Jerusalem Online, December 13, 2016. http://www.jerusalemonline.com/culture-and-lifestyle/legendary-israeli-singer-passes-away-at-68-25313
Viva Sarah Press, “27 Israeli companies rank on Deloitte Tech Fast 500 EMEA list,” Israel21c, December 12, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/27-israeli-companies-rank-on-deloitte-tech-fast-500-emea-list/
Uzi Rabi, “President-elect Trump and the Middle East?” The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, December 1, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/president-elect-trump-and-middle-east
Paul Rivlin, “The Arab Human Disaster Report: The Arab World Five Years After: Part 1, “ Iqtisadi – The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, December 2016. http://dayan.org/content/arab-human-disaster-report-arab-world-five-years-after-part-1
Michael Rubin, “Eight Possible Responses to the UN Israel Vote,” The Washington Examiner, December 24, 2016. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/eight-possible-trump-responses-to-the-un-israel-vote/article/2610328
Curt Schleier, “IDF Prepares Israeli for Heat of NY Kitchens,” Forward, December 8, 2016. http://forward.com/food/356443/idf-prepares-israeli-for-heat-of-ny-kitchens/
Natan Sachs, “What’s new and what’s not in the U.N. resolution on Israeli settlements,” Brookings Institute, December 26, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/12/26/whats-new-and-whats-not-in-the-u-n-resolution-on-israeli-settlements/
Pnina Sharvit Baruch, “Security Council Resolution 2334: The Legal Significance,” INSS, December 30, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12740
Gilead Sher, “More of the Same? Fatah’s Seventh General Congress and the Reelection of Abbas,” INSS, December 18, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12670
Gerald Steinberg, “Beyond anger: How to respond to the UN Security Council vote,” The Jerusalem Post,” December 27, 2016. https://t.co/mbvHUbpGF6
Inbal Tal, “Gender Aspects of the ‘Virtual Enclave’ of the Islamic Movement in Israel,” The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, December 26, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/gender-aspects-virtual-enclave-islamic-movement-israel
Shibley Telhami, “American attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Brookings Institute, December, 2, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/research/american-attitudes-on-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
Andrew Tobin, “Why Tel Aviv is Israel’s new aliyah capital,” Times of Israel, January 1, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/why-tel-aviv-is-israels-new-aliyah-capital/
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, “The Military Topography of Syria’s South,” SWP Insitute for International and Security Affairs Berlin, December 2016. https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2016C56_ows.pdf
Amos Yadin, “Radical Moves will only deepen our [Israel’s] diplomatic isolation,” Y-Net News, December 27, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4899206,00.html
Michael Zeff, “Aliya from France great for economy, Bar-Ilan profs say,” Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Aliya-from-France-great-for-economy-Bar-Ilan-profs-say-475785

#45 Contemporary Readings, November 2016
December 9, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Gwen Ackerman, “Israeli Tech Last Line of Defense for Power Plant Cyber Attacks,” Bloomberg, November 15, 2016. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/israeli-tech-last-line-of-defense-for-power-plant-cyber-attacks
Ghaith al-Omari, “Fatah’s General Conference: Clarifying Succession and Managing Dissent,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 28, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/fatahs-general-conference-clarifying-succession-and-managing-dissent
Glenn C. Altschuler, “Exploring the Transformation of Israel’s Kibbutz Movement,” Jerusalem Post, October 16, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Exploring-the-transformation-of-Israels-kibbutz-movement-470003
Yaacov Amidror, “Lessons of the UNESCO Vote,” Begin-Sadat Center, November 2, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/375-amidror-lessons-unesco-vote/
Arutz Sheva North America Staff, “Fitch upgrades Israel’s credit rating,” Arutz Sheva, November 11, 2016. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220164
Yuval Azulai, “India eyes Israeli tank, APC systems,” Globes, November 30, 2016. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-india-eyes-israeli-tank-systems-1001164173
Yossi Baidatz, “Strategy as a learning process: An Israeli case study for the new administration,” Brookings Institution, November 29, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/11/29/strategy-as-a-learning-process-an-israeli-case-study-for-the-new-administration/
Yaacov Benmeleh, “Largest Wealth Fund Finds Value in Israeli Banks After Job Cuts,” Bloomberg, November 15, 2016. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/largest-wealth-fund-finds-value-in-israeli-banks-after-job-cuts
Ron Bergman, “Israel’s wealthy: 105,000 millionaires and 18 billionaires,” Ynet, November 25, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4884381,00.html
Judy Bolton-Fasman, “Voices from the Children’s House,” Tablet, November 4, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/216532/voices-from-the-childrens-house
Breaking Israel News Staff, “Jewish-Yemeni Culture Comes Alive in the Music of Yemen Blues,” Breaking Israel News, November 13, 2016. https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/78489/jewish-yemeni-culture-comes-alive-music-yemen-blues/#PewypVghUDihMOCj.97
Tamara Cofman Wittes, “Real Security: The interdependence of governance and stability in the Arab World,” Brookings Institution, November 2016, https://www.brookings.edu/research/politics-governance-and-state-society-relations/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=fp
Phillip Connor, “Middle East Migrant Population More Than Doubles Since 2005,” Pew Research Center, October 18, 2016. http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/18092506/Middle-east-migrants_FINAL_PM.pdf
Omar Einav, “From Baabda to al-Qusayr: Hezbollah’s Victory March,” INSS, November 21, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12572
Yair Ettinger, “The Other Western Wall,” Brookings Institution, November 7, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/11/07/the-other-western-wall-conflict/
Freddy Eytan, “Europe in Shock after Donald Trump’s Victory,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, November 15, 2016. http://jcpa.org/europe-shock-donald-trumps-victory/
Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, “Mobilizing SNS in Turkey to Protect Women’s Rights,” Dayan Center, October 2016. http://dayan.org/content/mobilizing-sns-turkey-protect-women%E2%80%99s-rights
Jamie Feldmar, “Inside the Boom of Israeli Cuisine in America,” Zagat, November 14, 2016. https://www.zagat.com/b/inside-the-boom-of-israeli-cuisine-in-america
Lauren Frayer, “As Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Enter The Workforce, High-Tech Beckons,” NPR, November 12, 2016. http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/12/501620376/as-israels-ultra-orthodox-enter-the-workforce-high-tech-beckons
Hanin Ghaddar, “Iran May be Using Iraq and Syria as a Bridge to Lebanon.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 23, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/iran-may-be-using-iraq-and-syria-as-a-bridge-to-lebanon
Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Lessons of Henry Kissinger,” The Atlantic, November 10, 2016. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/12/the-lessons-of-henry-kissinger/505868/
Haisam Hassanein, “Egypt and Israel’s Growing Economic Cooperation,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 2, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/egypt-and-israels-growing-economic-cooperation
Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky, “The New UN Secretary General,” INSS, November 2, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12510
Arthur Herman, “Everyone Loves Israel” Mosaic, November 7, 2016. http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2016/11/everybody-loves-israel/
Jeremy Hulsh, “Tune In Tel Aviv Conference Founder Debunks 5 Myths About Israel’s Music Scene, Billboard, November 8, 2016. http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7565929/tune-in-tel-aviv-conference-myths-israel-music-scene
Efraim Inbar, “Australia and Israel: Good Guys Should Stick Together,” Begin-Sadat Center, November 22, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/379-inbar-australia-israel-good-guys-stick-together/
Ellen Laipson, “Taking the Long View on the Changing Status of Women in the Middle East,” World Politics Review, November 1, 2016. http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/20329/taking-the-long-view-on-the-changing-status-of-women-in-the-middle-east
Tovah Lazaroff, “Rivlin: India and Israel can ‘make magic’ on food security,” Jerusalem Post, November 21, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Rivlin-India-and-Israel-can-make-magic-on-food-security-473211
Eran Lerman, “Worse than a Crime: The Folly of Seeking an Imposed Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Begin-Sadat Center, November 8, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/376-lerman-worse-crime-folly-seeking-imposed-solution-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
David Makovsky, “Israel’s Brewing Settlements Law Could Stir Problems in Washington,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 17, 2016.http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-brewing-settlements-law-could-stir-problems-in-washington
Ariane Mandell, “Israel’s shifting culture of philanthropy,” Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-shifting-culture-of-philanthropy-473853
Hisham Melhem, “What does a Trump presidency mean for the Middle East,” al-Arabiya, December 2, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/11/26/What-does-a-Trump-presidency-mean-for-the-Middle-East-.html
Kobi Michael, “Donald Trump’s Election as President: Israel’s Additional Focus,” INSS, November 30, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12618
Aaron David Miller, “Why Carter is wrong on State of Palestine,” CNN, November 30, 2016. http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/30/opinions/carter-call-recognizing-palestinian-statehood/index.html
Beverley Milton-Edwards, “The Prince: President Abbas’ successor?” Brookings Institution, November 7, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-prince-president-abbas-successor/
Mazal Mualem, “Israeli education minister declares math ‘state of emergency,’” Al-Monitor, November 30, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/11/israel-education-timss-math-results-gaps-jews-arabs.html
Harry Nelson, “The road of Israeli health tech to the U.S. market,” Jewish Journal, November 18, 2016. http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/the_road_of_israeli_health_tech_to_the_u.s._market
Volker Perthes, “President Trump and International Relations,” Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Politik, November 18, 2016. http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publications/point-of-view/president-trump-and-international-relations.html
Martin Raffel, “The Challenge of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment on campus,” New Jersey Jewish News,” November 15, 2016. http://njjewishnews.com/article/32531/the-challenge-of-anti-semitism-and-anti-israel-sentiment-on-campus#.WECNI9UrLRZ
Paul Rivlin, “How Jordan Survives: Part 1,” Dayan Center, October 31, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/how-jordan-survives-part-1
Paul Rivlin, “How Jordan Survives: Part 2,” Dayan Center, November 30, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/how-jordan-survives-part-2
Dennis Ross, “How Trump could surprise the world on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking,” Washington Post, November 30, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-trump-could-surprise-the-world-on-israeli-palestinian-peace-making/2016/11/30/6e1f9c76-b5bc-11e6-959c-172c82123976_story.html?utm_term=.dbe786866bda
Michael Rubin, “Is Donald Trump Israel’s new BFF?” American Enterprise Institute, November 15, 2016. http://www.aei.org/publication/is-donald-trump-israels-new-bff/
Neal Sandler, “Israel Launches $4B Gas Field and Pipeline Investment,” Engineering News-Record, November 29, 2016. http://www.enr.com/articles/41009-israel-launches-4b-gas-field-and-pipeline-investment
Robert Satloff, “Everyone Loves Israel – Until They Don’t,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 14, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/everyone-loves-israel-until-they-dont
Malina Saval, “Sharon Stone, Natalie Portman Take Top Honors at Israel Film Festival Gala,” Variety, November 10, 2016. http://variety.com/2016/film/news/sharon-stone-natalie-portman-honored-at-israel-film-festival-gala-1201915004/
Sima Shine, Anna Catran, “The Start of the Iranian Presidential Campaign,” INSS, November 24, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12603
Max Singer, “Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem: A Great Opportunity for the New President,” Begin-Sadat Center, November 21, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/378-singer-moving-us-embassy-jerusalem-great-opportunity-new-president/
Felicity Spector, “A cuisine without borders: the vibrant flavours of Israeli food in Britain,” The Telegraph, July 28, 2016. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/a-cuisine-without-borders-the-vibrant-flavours-of-israeli-food-i/
Tyler Stapleton, “Congress Introduces Bill to Combat BDS Worldwide,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, November 18, 2016. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/tyler-stapleton-congress-introduces-bill-to-combat-bds-worldwide/
United Nations Development Programme, “Arab Human Development Report 2016,” United Nations Development Programme, December 2016. http://www.arabstates.undp.org/content/dam/rbas/report/AHDR%20Reports/AHDR%202016/AHDR%20Final%202016/AHDR2016En.pdf
Amos Yadlin, “Israel and the United States: An Opportunity to Strengthen the Special Relationship,” INSS, November 15, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12544
Sarah Yerkes, “With Trump coming to the White House, what’s Obama’s exit calculus on the peace process?” Brookings Institution, November 16, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/11/16/with-trump-coming-to-the-white-house-whats-obamas-exit-calculus-on-the-peace-process/
Michael Zeff, “EU-Israel trade predicted to grow despite diplomatic tension,” Jerusalem Post, November 23, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Economic-panel-tackles-economic-challenges-for-Israel-473444
Raz Zimmt, “When Soccer and Music Conflict with Religion: Citizens on Social Networks against Clerics in Iran,” Dayan Center, October 2016. http://dayan.org/content/when-soccer-and-music-conflict-religion-citizens-social-networks-against-clerics-iran

#44 Contemporary Readings, October 2016
November 4, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Ghaith Al-Omari, “A Paralyzing Rivalry,” The Cipher Brief, October 27, 2016. https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/middle-east/paralyzing-rivalry-1089
Graham Allison, “Why ISIS Fears Israel,” The National Interest, August 8, 2016. http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-isis-fears-israel-17286
Yaakov Amidor, “Tip of the Iceberg: Russian Use of Power in Syria,” Begin-Sadat Center, October 9, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/371-amidror-tip-of-the-iceberg-russian/
Yoni Ben Menachem, “The Businesses of Mahmoud Abbas and His Sons,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 14, 2016, http://jcpa.org/article/the-businesses-of-mahmoud-abbas-and-his-sons/
Ariel Ben Solomon, “Israel Should Avoid Turkey, Include Cyprus in Gas Export Projects,” Begin-Sadat Center, October 7, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/370-ben-solomon-israel-avoid-turkey-include-cyprus-gas-export-projects/
Anthony Bergin and Efraim Inbar, “The wattle and the olive: A new chapter in Australia and Israel working together,” Begin-Sadat Center, October 2016. http://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SR95_Australia-Israel-Nov-2016.pdf
BESA Center Associates, “Israeli West Bank Policy – Whereto?” Begin-Sadat Center, October 2016. http://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Israeli-West-Bank-Policy.pdf
Anna Borschevskaya and Cmdr Jeremy Vaughn, USN, “How the Russian Military Reestablished Itself in the Middle East,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 17, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-the-russian-military-reestablished-itself-in-the-middle-east
Ben Caspit, “The Israeli defense minister’s surprising offer,” Al-Monitor, October 26, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/10/israel-why-minister-liberman-offered-hamas-a-sea-port.html
Meir Elran, Mohammed Abo Nasra and Doron Matza, “The Decision by Arab Leaders in Israel Not to Attend the Peres Funeral: An Act of Defiance or a New Trend?” INSS, October 31, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12508
Oded Eran, “The American Conundrums in the Middle East, as Reflected in the Clinton-Trump Debate,” INSS, October 26,2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12472
Greer Fay Cashman, “A bridge between Austria and Israel,” Jerusalem Post, October 22, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/A-bridge-between-Austria-and-Israel-470663
Ben Fisher, “A different angle: A group of American music insiders pay a visit to Israel to learn about the country through its musicians and music industy,” Jerusalem Post, October 20, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Music-camp-470488
Alex Fishman, “Israel to assist Egypt’s fragile economy,” Ynet, October 18, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4867417,00.html
Gabe Friedman, “Israeli artist recreates Yom Kippur War through new music-listening experience,” Times of Israel, October 8, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/this-album-and-listening-experience-re-creates-the-yom-kippur-war/
Daniel Glaser, “The Evolution of Terrorism Financing: Disrupting the Islamic State,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 21, 2016, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-evolution-of-terrorism-financing-disrupting-the-islamic-state
Daniel Gordis, “We Need to Talk About Israel,” Tablet, October 14, 2016, http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/213000/we-need-to-talk-about-israel
Haisam Hasanein, “Egypt and Israel’s Growing Economic Cooperation, November 2, 2016, Washington Institute for Near East Policy. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/egypt-and-israels-growing-economic-cooperation
Efraim Inbar, “Jerusalem is More Important than Amona,” Begin-Sadat Center, October 27, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/jerusalem-important-amona/
Israel21c Staff, “Amazing archaeological find from First Temple period,” Israel21c, October 5, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/amazing-archaeological-find-from-first-temple-period/
Israel21c Staff, “Israelis produce clean energy alternative from… spinach,” Israel21c, October 2, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/israelis-produce-clean-energy-alternative-from-spinach/
Kenneth Jacobson, “Abstention on UNESCO Vote? Not Good Enough,” Times of Israel, October 28, 2016. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/abstention-on-unesco-vote-not-good-enough/
Alex Joffe, “BDS, Political Religion, and the Crisis of the Global Left,” Begin-Sadat Center, October 28, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/374-joffe-bds-political-religion-crisis-global-left/
Jerusalem Post Editorial, “Egypt and Israel,” Jerusalem Post, October 25, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Egypt-and-Israel-470853
Jewish News Service, “Israeli Economic Growth Exceeding Expectations,” The Algemeiner, October 15, 2016. https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/10/15/israeli-economic-growth-exceeding-expectations/
Jewish Telegraph Agency, “Israeli documentary named to shortlist for Academy Awards,” Arutz Sheva, October 28, 2016. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219464
Efraim Karsh, “The Oslo Disaster,” Begin-Sadat Center, September 4, 2016. http://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/msps123-karsh-the-oslo-disaster/
Steven R. Koltai, “Shimon Peres: Godfather of Israeli entrepreneurship,” Brookings Institution, October 14, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/10/14/shimon-peres-godfather-of-israeli-entrepreneurship/
Yossi Kuperwasser, “The West Must Insist that the Palestinians Change their Narrative,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 5, 2016, http://jcpa.org/article/west-must-insist-palestinians-change-narrative/
Eran Lerman, “Abbas at Mount Herzl: A Complex Man at a Complex Moment,” Begin-Sadat Center, October 10, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/372-lerman-abbas-at-mount-herzl/
Peter Lintl, “The Dynamics of a Right-wing Coalition – How the Failure of the Peace Processes Encourages Domestic Populism in Israel,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, October 2016. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publications/swp-comments-en/swp-aktuelle-details/article/israel_the_dynamics_of_a_right_wing_coalition.html
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, “A Drumbeat of Negative Commentary (Mideast Monitor),” Dayan Center, October 25, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/drumbeat-negative-commentary-mideast-monitor
Maisie McCormack and Brandon Friedman, “Beyond Fraternity: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates,” Dayan Center, October 26, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/beyond-fraternity-kingdom-saudi-arabia-and-united-arab-emirates-uae
Kobi Michael, “The Palestinian Terrorism of the Past Year: Causes and Policy Recommendations,” INSS, October 14, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12439
Assaf Orion, “The United States, Syria, and Chemical Weapons: An Unfinished Symphony,” INSS, October 6, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12404
Charles Passy, “Israeli Chefs Offer a Taste of the Holy Land in New York,” Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-chefs-offer-a-taste-of-the-holy-land-in-new-york-1475621312
W. Robert Pearson, “Turkey After July 16- Dawn or Disaster,” The Middle East Institute, October 17, 2016, http://www.mei.edu/content/article/turkey-after-july-15-dawn-or-disaster
Pew Staff, “American and Israeli Jews: Twin Portraits From Pew Research Center Surveys,” Pew Research Center September 27, 2016. http://www.pewforum.org/2016/09/27/american-and-israeli-jews-twin-portraits-from-pew-research-center-surveys/
Viva Sarah Press, “Tel Aviv’s pubs are moonlighting as daytime offices,” Israel21c, October 27, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/tel-avivs-pubs-are-moonlighting-as-daytime-offices/
Brian Reeves and Natan Sachs, “Israeli national unity government redux?” Brookings Institution, October 14, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/10/14/israeli-national-unity-government-redux/
Paul Rivlin, “How Jordan Survives: Part 1,” Dayan Center, October 31, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/how-jordan-survives-part-1
Shoshana Solomon, “Israeli army may crack down on ex-soldiers profiting from tech expertise,” Times of Israel, October 4, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-army-may-crack-down-on-ex-soldiers-profiting-from-tech-expertise/
Jonathan Spyer, “Patterns of Subversion: Iranian Us of Proxies in the Middle East, Rubin Center, September 5, 2016. http://www.rubincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/04_Spyer-TM-au-PDF.pdf
Washington Institute Satff, “Muslim, Jewish Religious Leaders Denounce Violence, Promote Peace in Unprecedented Israeli-Palestinian Meeting,” The Washington Institute, October 13, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/muslim-jewish-religious-leaders-denounce-violence-promote-peace-in-unpreced
Katy Watson, “Israel in food fight over kosher licensing,” BBC News, October 10, 2016. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37443634
Wharton Staff, “Can Israel Expand Its Startup Culture To Nearby Regions?” Wharton School at UPenn, October 24, 2016. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/can-israel-recast-startup-nation-into-startup-region/
Heiko Wimmen, “Lebanon’s State Erosion, Divisions of Conflict in Syria Sustain a Dangerous Stalemate,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, October 2016, https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2016C46_wmm.pdf
Ynet Staff, “The Israeli technology that’s linked to virtually every drink in the world,” Ynet, October 27, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4870990,00.html
Danielle Ziri, “Birthright program contributed over $1 billion to Israeli economy, study shows,” Jerusalem Post, October 21, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Birthright-program-contributed-over-1-billion-to-Israeli-economy-study-shows-470628

#43 Contemporary Readings, September 2016
October 6, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Special Collection: Iran—200 on-line collected articles about Iran (2010-2016)—the nuclear issue, Iranian economy, foreign policy, Russia and Turkey and Iran, Iran and Saudi Arabia, in the Syrian conflict, and more https://israeled.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/iran-article-compilation.pdf
Renee Beyda, “Israeli Filmmaker Uninvited from Film Festival,” The Jewish Week, September 20, 2016. http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york/israeli-filmmaker-uninvited-film-festival
Patrick Clawson, “Obama Team Makes Defensible Actions on Iran Looks Suspicious,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 8, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/obama-team-makes-defensible-actions-on-iran-look-suspicious
Niv Elis, “Apple Reportedly Developing iPhone 8 in Israel,” The Jerusalem Post, September 29, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Tech/Apple-reportedly-developing-iPhone-8-in-Israel-468951
Shmuel Even, David Siman-Tov, and Gabi Siboni, “Structuring Israel’s Cyber Defense,” The Institute for National Security Studies, September 21, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12364
Udi Dekel and Ofir Winter, “Cautious Pessimism: The Ceasefire in Syria – Prospects for Success,” The Institute for National Security Studies, September 19, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12361
Gershon Hacohen, “Separation Is Not the Answer,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, September 29, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/368-hacohen-separation-not-answer/
Simon Henderson, “Holy War of Words: Growing Saudi-Iranian Tensions,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 7, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/holy-war-of-words-growing-saudi-iranian-tensions
Simon Henderson, “Jordan’s Strategic Decision to Buy Israeli Gas,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 26, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/jordans-strategic-decision-to-buy-israeli-gas?utm_term=Read%20th
Michael Herzog, “Israel’s Core Security Requirements in Permanent-Status Negotiations,” Fathom, August 2016. http://fathomjournal.org/israels-core-security-requirements-in-permanent-status-negotiations/
Israel21c Staff, “Amazing Archaeological find from First Temple Period,” Israel21c, October 5, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/amazing-archaeological-find-from-first-temple-period/
Jerusalem Post Staff, “Musician Brian Eno Upholds BDS, Refuses to Let Israeli Dance Company Use Music,” The Jerusalem Post, September 7, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Musician-Brian-Eno-upholds-BDS-refuses-to-let-Israeli-dance-company-use-music-467154
Raphael Kadushin, “Tel Aviv: A Beach-to-Market Food Tour,” The Wall Street Journal, September 29, 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/tel-aviv-a-beach-to-market-food-tour-1475167369
Chen Kane, W. Seth Carus, and Nima Gerami, “Why the U.S-Israel Military Aid Package Matters,” The National Interest, September 25, 2016. http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-the-us-israel-military-aid-package-matters-17818
Steven Koltai, “Shimon Peres: Godfather of Israeli Entrepreneurship,” Jewish Journal, September 30, 2016. http://www.jewishjournal.com/israel/article/shimon_peres_godfather_of_israeli_entrepreneurship
Yossi Kuperwasser, “The West Must Insist that the Palestinians Change Their Narrative,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 5, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/west-must-insist-palestinians-change-narrative/
Tova Lazaroff and Herb Keinon, “World Leaders to Arrive in Israel for Friday Funeral of Shimon Peres,” The Jerusalem Post, September 28, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/World-leaders-to-arrive-in-Israel-for-Friday-funeral-of-Shimon-Peres-468868
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Small Israeli Institutions Get Help Birthing Big Ideas,”Israel21c, September 4, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/small-israeli-institutions-get-help-birthing-big-ideas/
Ori Lenkinski, “Tel Aviv Experimental Fringe Theater Company Tmuna Hosts Festival of Plays, Music,” The Jerusalem Post, September 11, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Tel-Aviv-experimental-fringe-theater-company-Tmuna-hosts-festival-of-plays-music-467469
Eran Lerman, “Game of Camps: Ideological Fault Lines in the Wreckage of the Arab State System,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies September 2016. http://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/MSPS124-1.pdf
Eran Lerman, “Khamenei’s Slant on WWII: Iran Must Not Go the Way of Germany and Japan,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, September 28, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/367-lerman-khameneis-slant-wwii-iran-must-not-go-way-germany-japan/
Zvi Magen and Udi Dekel, “Russia’s Initiative on the Israeli-Palestinian Process: Another Move to Regain Influence in the Middle East,” The Institute for National Security Studies, September 13, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12339
David Makovsky, “The Money and the Message,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 15, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-new-mou-the-money-and-the-message
David Makovsky, “Shimon Peres was Israel’s Quintessential Zionist,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 28, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/shimon-peres-was-israels-quintessential-zionist
Hour Doron Matza, Meir Elran, and Mohammed Abo Nasra, “Troubles in Paradise: The New Arab Leadership in Israel and the Challenges of the Hour,” The Institute for National Security Studies, July 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/uploadImages/systemFiles/INSS.StrAss19.2.July16942619882.pdf
Hisham Melhem, “Scorched Earth and Scorched Souls,” Al Arabiya, September 17, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/09/17/Scorched-earth-and-scorched-souls.html
Aryeh Mellman, “Clinton vs. Trump on Key Middle East Issues: Prepping for the Debate,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 22, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/clinton-vs.-trump-on-key-middle-east-issues-prepping-for-the-debate
Yoni Ben Menachem, “The Business of Mahmoud Abbas and His Sons,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 14, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/the-businesses-of-mahmoud-abbas-and-his-sons/
Kobi Michael, “The Agreement Between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on Electricity: Guiding Rationales for a Working Model,” The Institute for National Security Studies, September 22, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12370
Michael O’Hanlon, “Deconstructing Syria: A Confederal Approach,” Brookings, September 16, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/research/deconstructing-syria-a-confederal-approach/
Sever Plocker, “A political realist (Shimon Peres)in an irrational world,” Ynet News, September 29, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4860253,00.html
Gerard Pozzi, “Leket Israel: A Role Model Food Bank,” Foodtank, September 28, 2016. http://foodtank.com/news/2016/09/leket-israel-a-role-model-food-bank
Viva Sarah Press, “10 Israelis Making a Mark on New York’s Tech Scene,” Israel21c, September 19, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/10-israelis-making-a-mark-on-new-yorks-tech-scene/
Itamar Rabinovich, “Israeli’s Last Founding Father (Shimon Peres),” Brookings, September 28, 2016. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/09/28/israels-last-founding-father/
Reuters, “Abbas’s Farewell to Shimon Peres Stirs Controversy Among Palestinians,” The Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Abbass-farewell-to-Shimon-Peres-stirs-controversy-among-Palestinians-469345
Yehudit Ronen, “Post-Qaddafi Libya: A Failing State,” The Moshe Dayan Center, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/post-qaddafi-libya-failing-state
Armin Rosen, “Jewish Voters Are in Love with Hillary’s Pragmatism. What Does That Mean for Mideast Policy?” Tablet, September 7, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/212675/jewish-voters-hillarys-pragmatism
Armin Rosen, “Boundaries of Slowly Thawing Arab-Israeli Relations on Display at Iran Risk Summit in NYC,” Tablet, September 21, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/214072/boundaries-of-slowly-thawing-arab-israeli-relations-on-display-at-iran-risk-summit-in-nyc
Karin Rubinstein, “More Than Positioning: Israel’s Tech Challenges,” The Jerusalem Post, September 5, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Tech/More-than-positioning-Israels-tech-challenges-466935
Jonathan Rynhold, “US-Israel Relations: Beyond the $38 Billion,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, September 27, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/366-rynhold-us-israel-relations-beyond-38-billion/
David Samuels, “One Last (Shimon Peres) Interview,” Tablet, September 29, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/214621/one-last-interview
Robert Satloff, “What Trump and Clinton Said (And Didn’t Say) About the Middle East,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 27, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/what-trump-and-clinton-said-and-didnt-say-about-the-middle-east?utm_term
David Schenker, “Cracks Start to Show in Jordan,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 13, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/cracks-start-to-show-in-jordan https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/agreement-on-military-aid-for-israel-expected-within-days/2016/09/13/50847ad8-79c1-11e6-bd86-b7bbd53d2b5d_story.html
Michael Schwartz, “The Development of the Sino-Iranian Limited Partnership: China’s $600-Billion Proposition,” The Moshe Dayan Center, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/development-sino-iranian-limited-partnership-china’s-600-billion-proposition
Cui Shoujun, “The Logic of China’s Israel Policy,” The Jerusalem Post, September 26, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-logic-of-Chinas-Israel-policy-468486
Robin Shulman, “Shimon Peres, Israeli Statesman and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 93,” The Washington Post, September 27, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/shimon-peres-israeli-statesman-and-nobel-peace-prize-winner-dies-at-93/2016/09/27/ef12f968-c5db-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html
David Siman-Tov and Gabi Siboni, “The Superpower Cyber War and the US Elections,” The Institute for National Security Studies, September 26, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12384
Shoshanna Solomon, “Program Seeks to Boost Bedouins in Israeli High-Tech,” The Times of Israel, October 2, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/program-seeks-to-boost-bedouins-in-israeli-high-tech/
Michael Steinbach, “How Technology has Transformed the Terrorist Threat Fifteen Years after 9/11,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 21, 2016, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-technology-has-transformed-the-terrorist-threat-fifteen-years-after-9-1
Ron Tira, “Israel’s Second War Doctrine,” The Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv, July 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/uploadImages/systemFiles/INSS.StrAss19.2.July16942619882.pdf
Mira Tzoreff, “From Great Expectations to Bitter Disappointment: Egypt’s Youth, After Three Years of al-Sisi’s Presidency,” The Moshe Dayan Center, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/great-expectations-bitter-disappointment-egypt’s-youth-after-three-years-al-sisis-presidency
Sharon Udasin, “Global Agtech Investors Find ‘Rich Pipeline of Opportunities’ in Israel,” The Jerusalem Post, September 27, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Environment/Global-agtech-investors-find-rich-pipeline-of-opportunities-in-Israel-468833
Benjamin Weinthal, “City of Munich Cancels BDS Event Due to Anti-Semitism,” Foundation For Defense of Democracies, September 24, 2016. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/benjamin-weinthal-city-of-munich-cancels-bds-event-due-to-antisemitism/
Moshe Yaalon, “Why Iran is more dangerous than Islamic State,” LA Times, September, 29, 2016. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-yaalon-iran-threat-20160929-snap-story.html
Roie Yellinek, “China’s New Position on the Middle East,” The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, September 11, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/363-yellnik-chinas-new-position-middle-east/

#42 Contemporary Readings, August 2016
September 1, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Hani Al-Masri, “Hamas faces bitter options,” Middle East Monitor, March 29, 2016. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160329-hamas-faces-bitter-options/
Yaakov Amidror, “Cyberspace, the Final Frontier,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, August 30, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/cyberspace-final-frontier/
Yaacok Amidror, “The Iran Deal One Year Later: The Fuse is Still Burning,” BESA Center, August 8, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-deal-first-anniversary/
Steffen Angenendt, David Kipp, Anne Koch, “Many Refugees, Poor Data,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, August 2016. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2016C37_adt_kpp_koh.pdf
Alan Baker, “Ten False Assumptions Regarding Israel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 15, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/ten-false-assumptions-regarding-israel/
Barak Barfi, “Assad Bombs the Kurds: Implications for U.S. Strategy in Syria,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 23, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/assad-bombs-the-kurds-implications-for-u.s.-strategy-in-syria
Peter Beaumont, “Gaza becomes social media warzone ahead of Palestinian elections,” The Guardian, August, 24, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/gaza-becomes-social-media-warzone-ahead-palestinian-elections
Coral Braun, “Israeli directors win MTV award for Coldplay’s ‘Up&Up’ music video,” Jerusalem Post, August 29, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-directing-pair-wins-MTV-award-for-Coldplay-music-video-466309
Hannah Brown, “Israeli movies abound at this year’s Toronto Film Festival,” Jerusalem Post, August 21, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-movies-abound-at-this-years-Toronto-Film-Festival-464687
Anthony H. Cordesman, “U.S. Wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen: What Are the Endstates?” Center for Strategic and International Studies, August 15, 2016. https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-wars-iraq-syria-libya-and-yemen-what-are-endstates
Omar Einav, Orit Perlov, and Ofir Winter, “Not Just Sports: Mixed Sentiments in Egyptian Discourse about Israel,” Institute for National Security Studies, August 18, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12232
Shlomi Eldar, “The morning after: What happens to Gaza if Hamas is toppled?,” Al-Monitor, August 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/avigdor-liberman-plan-hamas-ngo-humanitarian-aid-gaza-strip.html
Niv Elis, “Israeli-Chinese hardware incubator launches in Tel Aviv,” Jerusalem Post, August 30, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Israeli-Chinese-hardware-incubator-launches-in-Tel-Aviv-466382
Yoram Ettinger, “Israel’s Economy – an Island of Stability,” Jewish Press, August 8, 2016. http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/the-ettinger-report/israels-economy-an-island-of-stability/2016/08/08/
Joel Fishman, “The Historical Problem of Haj Amin al-Husseini, ‘Grand Mufti’ of Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 22, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/historical-problem-hajj-amin-al-husseini-grand-mufti-jerusalem/
Matti Friedman, “The Ideological Roots of Media Bias Against Israel,” Fathom, January 2015. http://fathomjournal.org/the-ideological-roots-of-media-bias-against-israel/
Shiryn Ghermezian, “Playboy Columnist Calls Israel’s ‘Burning Man’ Festival ‘Ultimate Revenge on Hitler’,” The Algemeiner, August 28, 2016. https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/28/playboy-columnist-calls-israels-burning-man-festival-ultimate-revenge-on-hitler/
John Hannah, “Saudi Arabia Strikes Back,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, August 16, 2016. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/saudi-arabia-strikes-back/
Pinhas Inbari, “The Fraying Palestinian Political Entity in the West Bank,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 3, 2016. http://jcpa.org/the-fraying-palestinian-political-entity-in-the-west-bank/
Ephraim Kam, Zvi Magen, “Russia Stations Fighter Jets in Iran for Use in Syria,” Institute for National Security Studies, August 21, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12235
Ziv Klein, “Moody’s affirms Israel’s A1 credit rating, says economy stable,” Israel Hayom, August 14, 2016. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=35663
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli lab proves Stephen Hawking’s theory,” Israel21c, August 18, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/israeli-lab-proves-stephen-hawkings-theory/
Tal Kra-Oz, “Shai Tsbari Storms the Heavens, from Bat Yam to New York,” Tablet, August 22, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/211136/shai-tsabari-storms-the-heavens
Norman Lebrecht, “Breaking: Rotterdam Phil Appoints Israeli Music Director, 27,” Slipped Disc, August 23, 2016. http://slippedisc.com/2016/08/breaking-rotterdam-phil-appoint-israeli-music-director-27-years-old/
Eran Lerman, “Regional Implications of the Failed Coup d’État and Purges in Turkey,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, August 1, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/regional-implications-failed-coup-detat-purges-turkey-initial-indicators/
David Makovsky, “Israel Defense Minister surprises by announcing West Bank Projects in Key Areas,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 19, 2016. https://outlook.office.com/owa/projection.aspx
C. Meital, “Three Years Into Al-Sisi’s Rule: Difficult Challenges At Home And Abroad,” Middle East Media Research Institute, August 14, 2016. http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/9395.htm
Arye Mekel, “Turkey, the Refugee Crisis and Brexit: Concerns and Opportunities for Greece,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, August 12, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkey-the-refugee-crisis-and-brexit-concerns-and-opportunities-for-greece/
Hisham Melhem, “Rage, rage. Unadulterated rage against the dying of hope [in Syria],” al-Arabiya, August 20, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/2016/08/20/Rage-rage-unadulterated-rage-against-the-dying-of-hope-in-Syria.html
Kobi Michael, Udi Dekel, “The Defense Minister’s Plan: One Hand Gives, the Other Topples,” Institute for National Security Studies, August 25, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12256
Mazal Mualem, “Why the Sabbath crisis didn’t topple Netanyahu’s government” Al-Monitor, August 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/israel-third-sabbath-coalition-crisis-netanyahu-katz.html
Mohammed Abu Nasra, Meir Elran, Eran Yashiv, “The Five-Year Economic Plan for Israel’s Arab Sector: A Progress Report,” Institute for National Security Studies, August 9, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12208
Gaith Omari, “Palestinian Local Elections: An Opportunity for Political Revival or a Gam of Chicken,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 5, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/palestinian-local-elections-an-opportunity-for-political-revival-or-a-game
David Pollack, “The New Normal: Today’s Arab Debate Over Ties with Israel,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 25, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-new-normal-todays-arab-debate-over-ties-with-israel
Nadav Pollak, “Transformation of Hezbollah by its Involvement in Syria,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/ResearchNote35-Pollak-2.pdf
Adam Rasgon, “A guide to the upcoming PA municipal elections,” Jerusalem Post, August 8, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/A-guide-to-the-upcoming-PA-municipal-elections-463510
Abdulrahman al-Rashed, “The Shock of a Russian base in Iran,” al-Arabiya, August 18, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/08/18/The-shock-of-a-Russian-base-in-Iran.html
Asaf Romirowsky and Alexander H. Joffe, “The anti-Israel movement’s ‘anti-normalization’ campaign,” National Post, August 3, 2016, http://www.romirowsky.com/19081/israel-anti-normalization
Peter Rudolf, “Liberal Hegemony and US Foreign Policy under Barack Obama,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, August 2016. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2016C40_rdf.pdf
Zaki Shalom, “The Obama Administration: Toward a Security Council Resolution on an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement?,” Institute for National Security Studies, August 23, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12244
Max Singer, “The New Threat of Very Accurate Missiles,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, August 9, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/new-threat-accurate-missiles/
Joseph S. Spoerl, “Whitewashing Palestine to Eliminate Israel: The Case of the One-State Advocates,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 12, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/whitewashing-palestine-eliminate-israel-case-one-state-advocates/
Jonathan Spyer, “Where is Syria going? A Round Table with Jonathan Spyer,” Fathom, Spring 2016. http://fathomjournal.org/where-is-syria-going-a-round-table-with-jonathan-spyer/
Khaled Abu Toameh, “Hamas, Palestinian Authority Target Journalists Ahead of Election,” Gatestone Institute, August 23, 2016. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8738/hamas-palestinian-journalists
Gönül Tol, Matt Mainzer and Zeynep Ekmekci, “Unpacking Turkey’s Failed Coup: Causes and Consequences,” Middle East Institute, August 17, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/unpacking-turkey-s-failed-coup-causes-and-consequences
Benjamin Weinthal, “In Germany, Israelis help to launch anti-BDS group,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, August 27, 2016. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/benjamin-weinthal-in-germany-israelis-help-to-launch-anti-bds-group/
Ofir Winter, Gallia Lindenstrauss, “Egypt and Turkey following the Failed Coup: The Interrupted Thaw,” Institute for National Security Studies, August 2, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12184
Michael Yudkin, “Lies, Damned Lies and the Academic Boycott of Israel,” Fathom, Spring 2016. http://fathomjournal.org/lies-damned-lies-and-the-academic-boycott-of-israel/

#41 Contemporary Readings, July 2016
August 4, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
AFP, “Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Women Go Hi-Tech,” Daily Mail, July 11, 2016. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3684058/Israel-ultra-Orthodox-women-hi-tech.html
Yaacov Amidror, “Erdogan’s Turkey Takes a Fork in the Road,” BESA-SADAT Center, July 29, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/erdogans-turkey-takes-fork-road/
Nabil Araby, “A Call for Arab Diplomacy,” The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Spring 2016. http://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/a-call-for-arab-diplomacy/
Abdel Bari Atwan, “Egypt Caught Napping as Netanyahu Visits Nile Countries,” Raialyoum, July 13, 2016. http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=475635
Tony Badran, “Why Bibi’s Visits to Moscow Mean Bad News For Israel,” Tablet Mag, July 5, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/206472/bibi-in-moscow-bad-news-for-israel
Tony Badran, Jonathan Schanzer, and David Daoud, “The Third Lebanon War,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, July 18, 2016. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/badran-tony-the-third-lebanon-war/
Pnina Baruch, Oded Eran, and Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky, “The Quartet Report: An International Attempt to Keep the Two-State Solution Alive,” Institute for National Security Studies, July 28, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12158
David Brinn, Katherine Keenen, “Santana and BDS,” The Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Santana-and-BDS-460584
Patrick Clauson, “Iran’s Modest Economic Changes Since JCPOA Implementation,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 6, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-modest-economic-changes-since-jcpoa-implementation
Moreno Duwe, “How Art, Music, and Midburn Reshaped My Perception of Israel,” The Huffington Post, July 28, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/morena-duwe/how-art-music-and-midburn_b_11235126.html
Ahmed Eleiba, “Israel’s Regional Tactics,” al-Ahram Weekly, July 14, 2016. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16844/17/Israel%E2%80%99s-regional-tactics.aspx
Oded Eran, Michael Oren, and Merav Michaeli,” Israeli Perspectives on International Peace Initiatives, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 12, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israeli-perspectives-on-international-peace-initiatives
Eran Etzion, “Israel on the Outer in Syria’s Civil War,” Middle East Institute, July 19, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/israel-outer-syria-s-civil-war
Freddy Eytan, “The Post-Brexit Future of European-Israeli Relations,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, July 3, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/post-brexit-future-european-israeli-relations/
Alex Fishman, “Egypt’s Diplomatic Games,” Y-Net News, July 13, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4827812,00.html
Yaron Friedman, “How Erdogan Survived the Coup and Why We Needed Him To,” Y-Net News, July 18, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4829891,00.html
Gregory Gause, “The Future of US-Saudi Relations,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2016.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2016-06-13/future-us-saudi-relations
Richard Gehr, “A-Wa: The Israeli Trio Turning Yemenite Tradition Into a Global Groove,” Rolling Stone, July 7, 2016. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/a-wa-the-israeli-trio-turning-yemenite-tradition-into-a-global-groove-20160707
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, “Jewish Identities in Postmodern Societies,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, July 11, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/jewish-identities-postmodern-societies/
Larry Hanauer, “Israel’s Interests and Options in Syria,” The Rand Corporation, 2016. http://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE185.html
Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky, “Israel and the UN Security Council Elections,” Institute for National Security Studies, July 4, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12012
Efraim Inbar, “Implications of US Disengagement from the Middle East,” BESA-Sadat Center, July 26, 2016. http://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/implications-us-disengagement-middle-east/
Israel21c Staff, “The Architecture of Palestine during the British Mandate,” Israel21c, July 21, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/the-architecture-of-palestine-during-the-british-mandate/
JTA, “Israel Food Startup Aims to Make Meat- Minus the Animal,” Forward, July 12, 2016. http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/344900/israeli-food-startup-aims-to-make-meat-minus-the-animal/
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Intel, Global Banks are Banking on Israeli Fintech Ideas,” Israel21c, July 29, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/intel-global-banks-are-banking-on-israeli-fintech-ideas/
Shalle’ McDonald, “Amid Warming Arab-Israeli Relations, Egyptians Push for Open Outlook on Education,” Algemeiner, July 8, 2016. http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/07/08/amid-warming-arab-israeli-relations-egyptians-push-for-open-outlook-on-education/
Gabriel Mitchell, “Israel-Turkey: Where to from Now?,” Middle East Institute, July 11, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/israel-turkey-where-now
Hassan Mneimneh, Daniel Serwer, Paul Scham, and Alex Vatanka, “Weekly Briefing: Baghdad Bombing, NATO Summit, Israel’s Africa Outreach, and Saudi Embassy Trial in Iran,” Middle East Institute, July 5, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/weekly-briefing-baghdad-bombing-nato-summit-israel-s-africa-outreach-and-saudi-embassy-trial-iran
Marissa Newman, “Cabinet Okays 2-Year Budget, Drawing Opposition Critcism,” The Times of Israel, July 17, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/cabinet-okays-2-year-budget-drawing-opposition-criticism/
Marina Ottaway, “The New Normal in the Middle East,” The Wilson Center, July 21, 2016. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/the-new-normal-the-middle-east
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, “Local Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, July 2016. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2016C34_ows.pdf
David Pollock, “Financially Rewarding Terrorism in the West Bank,” Testimony before House Foreign Affairs Committee, July 6, 2016. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20160706/105161/HHRG-114-FA00-TTF-PollockD-20160706.pdf
Viva Sarah Press, “$2.8 billion Invested in Israel in First Half of 2016,” Israel21c, July 14, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/2-8-billion-invested-in-israel-in-first-half-of-2016/
Paul Rivlin, “Egypt: the Agony Continues,” The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, July 2016. http://dayan.org/content/egypts-economy-agony-continues
Grant Rumley, “Hamas Vows to Join Municipal Elections, but Obstacles Remain,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, July 19, 2016. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/grant-rumley-hamas-vows-to-join-municipal-elections-but-obstacles-remain/
Ahmed Al-Sayed, “Israel and the UN Sixth Committee,” Al-Ahram Weekly, June 23, 2016. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16708/19/Israel-and-the-UN-Sixth-Committee.aspx
Steven Scheer, “Israel Financial System Stable but Exposed to Housing Price Declines,” Reuters, July 27, 2016. http://www.reuters.com/article/israel-cenbank-banks-idUSL9N13C00C
Sima Shine and Galia Lindenstrauss, “The Failed Coup Attempt in Turkey: A Boost for Iran-Turkey Relations,” Institute for National Security Studies, July 31, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12141
Felicity Spector, “A Cuisine Without Borders: The Vibrant Flavours of Israeli Food in Britain,” The Telegraph, July 28, 2016. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/a-cuisine-without-borders-the-vibrant-flavours-of-israeli-food-i/
Jonathan Spyer, “Reflections on the Second Lebanon War, 10 Years On,” The Jerusalem Post, July 12, 2016. http://www.meforum.org/6087/reflections-on-second-lebanon-war
Jessica Steinberg, “A Hora Away from Professional, Misgav’s Troupes Showcase Israeli Dance,” The Times of Israel, July 17, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-hora-away-from-professional-misgavs-troupes-showcase-israeli-dance/
Asher Susser, “Sykes-Picot ignored the sectarianism of the Middle East and we are still paying the price,” Fathom, Summer 2016. http://fathomjournal.org/sykes-and-picot-ignored-the-sectarianism-of-the-middle-east-and-we-are-still-paying-the-price/
Times of Israel Staff, “More Mizrahim in Israeli Education, Committee Advises,” Times of Israel, July 7, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/more-mizrahim-in-israeli-education-committee-advises/
TheTower.org Staff, “Report: Next War with Hezbollah Could Cause “Thousands of Civilian Deaths” in Israel,” The Tower, July 25, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3678-report-next-war-with-hezbollah-could-cause-thousands-of-civilian-deaths-in-israel/
David Wainer, “Israel at a Crossroads as Economy Shifts Away from Manufacturing,” Bloomberg, July 12, 2016. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-12/israel-at-a-crossroads-as-economy-shifts-away-from-manufacturing
Benjamin Weinthal, “Analysis: Is the BDS Movement Facing Economic Warfare?” Jerusalem Post, July 22, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/International/Diplomacy-BDS-on-the-back-foot-462075
Dan Williams, “The EU Wants to Use Israeli-Developed Technology to Spot ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorists,” Reuters, July 19, 2016. http://www.businessinsider.com/r-eu-eyes-israeli-technologies-for-spotting-militants-online-2016-7
Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov, “The Nuclear Agreement with Iran, One Year On: An Assessment and a Strategy for the Future,” Institute for National Security Studies, July 17, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=12058
Amos Yadlin, “Has a New Golden Age of Sunni Cooperation Dawned;” Ofir Haivey, “The Great Arab Implosion and its Consequences;” David Pryce-Jones, “Is A Century Arab Sunni Dominance Truly Finished;” Martin Kramer, “Revenge of the Sunnis,” Mosaic, July 2016. http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2016/07/the-era-of-sunni-dominance-ended-a-long-time-ago/

#40 Contemporary Readings, June 2016
July 10, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, “Why Israel Should Not Adopt Unilateral Initiatives,” BESA, June 1, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-not-adopt-unilateral-initiatives/
Geoffrey Aronson, “Israel Doubles Down on Settlement Policy,” Middle East Institute, June 21, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/israels-president-doubles-down-settlement-policy
Yuval Avivi, “Can the Chinese Save Israel’s Tourism Industry?” Al-Monitor, June 13, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/china-israel-tourism-direct-flights-visa-guides.html
Ron Ben-Yishai, “A terror attack next door to the IDF headquarters,” Y-Net News, June 9, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4814157,00.html
Ronen Bergman, and Lior Ben-Ami, “40 Years Since Operation Entebbe,” Y-Net News, (A five part series), July1, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-12984,00.html
Roee Bergman, “Israeli Economy Experiences Significant Slowdown in 2015,” Y-Net News, June 25, 2016. http://www.Ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4820141,00.html
Nicky Blackburn, “Israel Wins Top Prizes at the Asia Smartphone Apps Contest,” Israel21c, June 19, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/israel-wins-top-prizes-at-the-asia-smartphone-apps-contest/
Sever Blocker, “Is Anybody Home (an economic crisis in Israel)?,” Y-Net News, June 4, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4811684,00.html
Hannah Brown, “Israeli Movies at Jerusalem Film Festival Announced,” The Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-movies-at-Jerusalem-Film-Festival-announced-456277
Ben Caspit, “The Education of Israel’s New Defense Minister,” Al-Monitor, June 9, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/israel-attack-tel-aviv-defense-minister-liberman-first-test.html
Shlomi Eldar, “The War Over Fatah Leadership Has Begun,” Al-Monitor, June 27, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/khaled-meshaal-mohammed-dahlan-hamas-fatah-mahmoud-abbas.html
Meir Elran, Yonatan Shaham, and Alex Altshuler, “An Expanded Comprehensive Threat Scenario for the Home Front in Israel,” INSS, June 15, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11914
Camelia Entekhabifard, “Iranian funding for Hizbullah,” Al-Ahram Weekly, June 30, 2016. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16757/19/Iranian-funding-for-Hizbullah.aspx
Eran Etzion, “Netanyahu’s Risky Politics and the French Initiative,” Middle East Institute, June 6, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/netanyahu-s-risky-politics-and-french-initiative
Robert Ford, “US Diplomats are Right on Syria Obama has lost his path in Syria,” Daily Beast, June 20, 2016. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/20/u-s-diplomats-are-right-on-syria.html
Danielle Crittenden Frum, “Meet the Israeli Chefs Who Are Inventing the New Global Cuisine,” The Tower, June 30, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3584-meet-the-israeli-chefs-who-are-inventing-the-new-global-cuisine/
Peter Hadekel, “Jazz Fest: Israel’s Turbulence Breeds Creativity, Avishai Cohen says,” Montreal Gazette, June 29, 2016. http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/jazz-fest-israels-turbulence-breeds-creativity-avishai-cohen-says
Simon Henderson, “Israel’s Leviathan Gas Field: Politics and Reality,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 23, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-leviathan-gas-field-politics-and-reality
Michael Herzog, “Activism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Clouds and Wind, but No Rain?,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 21, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/activism-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-clouds-and-wind-but-no-rain
Efraim Inbar, “No One-Shot Solution to the Hamas Challenge,” BESA, June 30, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/no-one-shot-solution-hamas-challenge/
Efraim Inbar, “US Mideast Retreat a Boon to Moscow and Tehran,” The Middle East Quarterly, Volume 23 No. 3, Summer 2016. http://www.meforum.org/6042/us-mideast-retreat
Rory Jones, “Oud Is New for Israeli Musicians,” Wall Street Journal, June 8, 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/oud-is-new-for-israeli-musicians-1465403697
Michael Kaminer, “Japan’s Israeli Food Wave – And More Need-to-Know Food News,” Forward, June 8, 2016. http://forward.com/food/342064/japans-israeli-food-wave-and-more-need-to-know-food-news/
Martin Kramer, “Israel and the Post Middle East: Is the Status Quo Sustainable,” Foreign Policy, July/August 2016. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2016-06-08/israel-and-post-american-middle-east
Martin Kramer, “The Return of Bernard Lewis,” Mosaic, (with comments by Robert Irwin and Itamar Rabinovich), June 1, 2016. http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2016/06/the-return-of-bernard-lewis/
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israel’s Universities Go Global,” Israel21c, June 5, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/israels-universities-go-global/
Gallia Lindenstrauss, “Israel-Turkey Normalization: Can Relations Turn Over a New Leaf?,” INSS, June 29, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11974
Amany Maged, “The Anniversary of revolution, (Morsi tossed from office),” Al Ahram Weekly, June 30, 2016. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16763/17/The-anniversary-of-revolution.aspx
Brett H. McGurk, “Global Efforts to Defeat ISIS,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 28, 2016. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/062816_McGurk_Testimony.pdf
Clifford D. May, “Terrorism and Economic Warfare,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, June 15, 2016. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-terrorism-and-economic-warfare/
Hisham Melhem, “Syria is Obama’s Shame,” al-Arabiya, June 19, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/2016/06/19/Syria-is-Obama-s-shame-.html
Yousef Munayyer, “Saudi-Israel: Mistaken Hopes for an Alliance,” Middle East Institute, June 13, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/article/saudi-israel-mistaken-hopes-alliance
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research Staff, “Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (60),” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, June 7, 2016. http://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/656
Smadar Perry, “Strangling Nasrallah,” Y-Net News, June 12, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4814752,00.html
Steven Plaut, “Israel’s Socialist Dreams vs. Capitalist Realities,” Middle East Forum, June 2016. http://www.meforum.org/6046/israel-socialist-dreams-capitalist-realities
Daniel Polisar, “Palestinian Public Opinion is Behind Tel Aviv Terror Attack,” Times of Israel, June 10, 2016. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-public-opinion-is-behind-tel-aviv-terror-attack/
Stephan Roll and Lars Brozus, “The Long Arm of the Dictator,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, June 2, 2016. http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publications/point-of-view/the-long-arm-of-the-dictator.html
Michael Z. Rosenhaft, “Remembering Elie Wiesel: Tribute From a Friend and Disciple,” Tablet, July 2, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/206702/remembering-elie-wiesel-a-tribute-from-a-friend-and-disciple
Arik Rudnitzky, ““Trust and Reform” Party: New Arab Politics in Israel?,” The Moshe Dayan Center, June 16, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/“trust-and-reform”-party-new-arab-politics-israel
Grant Rumley and Adam Rasgon, “Assessing the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Policy,” Fathom, June 28, 2016. http://fathomjournal.org/assessing-the-palestinian-authoritys-foreign-policy/
Jonathan Schanzer, “Putting Hezbollah ‘Out of Business’,” Washington Times, June 1, 2016. http://schanzer.pundicity.com/18884/putting-hezbollah-out-of-business
David Schenker, “Terrorist Spillover in Jordan,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 23, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/terrorist-spillover-in-jordan
Yoram Schweitzer, “The Islamic State, Two Years On: Is it Indeed on the Verge of Collapse?” INSS, June 30, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11979
David Shamah, “Car Tech Fast Lane? Why Automobile Makers are Rushing to Israel,” ZDNet, June 6, 2016. http://www.zdnet.com/article/israel-emerging-as-a-car-tech-capital/
Alina Dain Sharon and Sean Savage, “As Turkey-Israel Deal Moves From Speculation to Reality, What Does it Mean?,” JNS.org, June 28, 2016. http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2016/6/28/as-turkey-israel-deal-moves-from-speculation-to-reality-what-does-it-mean#.V3wIw1qq78F=
Allon Sinai, “Israeli Soccer Star Eran Zahavi Completes Record Transfer to Chinese Club,” The Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sports/Israeli-soccer-star-Eran-Zahavi-completes-record-transfer-to-Chinese-club-459060
Lea Speyer, “Study: Israeli Innovation Proving to Be Major Driving Force Behind Massachusetts Economy,” The Algemeiner, June 23, 2016. http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/06/23/study-israeli-innovation-proving-to-be-major-driving-force-behind-massachusetts-economy/
Shimon Stein and Shlomo Brom, “The Meeting of the Foreign Ministers in Paris: What Next?,” INSS, June 16, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11930
TheTower.org Staff, “Israel Delivers Drip Irrigation Systems to Help Relieve Drought in Paraguay,” The Tower, June 29, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3577-israeli-delivers-drip-irrigation-systems-to-help-relieve-drought-in-paraguay/
US Department of State Staff, “Report of the Middle East Quartet,” US Department of State, July 1, 2016. http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rpt/259262.htm
Benjamin Weinthal, “Exclusive: Second Largest German Bank Shuts Anti-Israel BDS Account,” The Jerusalem Post, June 14, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Exclusive-Second-largest-German-bank-shuts-anti-Israel-BDS-account-456721
Ofir Winter, “An Egyptian Take on the ‘New Middle East,’” INSS, June 7, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11897
Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, “Turkish – Israeli Reconciliation: The End of “Precious Loneliness”?,” The Moshe Dayan Center, June 26, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/turkish-–-israeli-reconciliation-end-“precious-loneliness”
Steven Zeitchik, “In Israel a New Film Consciousness Emerges, Uneasily,” Los Angeles Times, June 10, 2016. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-israeli-cinema-20160601-snap-story.html
Husam Zomlot, “After Oslo’s failure, the two-state solution is now an international responsibility: an interview with Husam Zomlot,” Fathom, Summer 2016. http://fathomjournal.org/after-oslos-failure-the-two-state-solution-is-now-an-international-responsibility-an-interview-with-husam-zomlot/

#39 Contemporary Readings, May 2016
June 6, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Adil Astil, “International Peace Conference: Winners and Losers,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 12, 2016. http://fikraforum.org/?p=9338
Dany Bahar, “Delivering on Economic Prosperity in Israel: How monopolies are hampering the ‘start-up nation’” Brookings Institute, May 4, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/05/04-israel-monopolies-competition-bahar
Edwin Black, “Painful Lessons from the 75th Anniversary of the Farhud,” The Tower, May 31, 2016. www.thetower.org/3438-painful-lessons-from-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-farhud/
Coral Braun, “A Directorial Triumph: Coldplay gets Israeli direction in new music video,” Jerusalem Post, May 17, 2016. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/A-Directorial-Triumph-Coldplay-gets-Israeli-direction-in-new-music-video-454186
Shlomo Brom, and Anat Kurz, “An Opportunity to Revive the Political Process, or an Illusion?” INSS, May 29, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11846
Tamara Cofman-Wittes, “Security Challenges,” Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Joint Hearing on “Israel Imperiled: Threats to the Jewish State,” House Foreign Affairs Committee, April 19, 2016. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20160419/104817/HHRG-114-FA18-Wstate-WittesT-20160419.pdf
Steven A. Cook and Amr T. Lehta, “Don’t Blame Sykes-Picot for the Middle East’s Mess,” Foreign Policy, May 13, 2016. http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/13/sykes-picot-isnt-whats-wrong-with-the-modern-middle-east-100-years/
Niv Ellis, “Mayo Clinic launches initiative to invest in Israeli medical tech,” Jerusalem Post, May 19, 2016.
www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Mayo-Clinic-launches-initiative-to-invest-in-Israeli-medical-tech-454370
Tom Donilon, “Examining America’s Role in the World,” Testimony Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” May 12, 2016, http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/051216_Donilon_Testimony.pdf
Renee Ghertz-Zand, “Israel’s first Jordanian PhD wants to bring peace through water,” Times of Israel, May 25, 2016. www.timesofisrael.com/israels-first-jordanian-phd-wants-to-bring-peace-through-water/
Brianna Gurciullo, “Bill Clinton: ‘I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state,'” Politico, May 13, 2016. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bill-clinton-palestinians-israel-223176#ixzz4AVoAeXE7
Robert S. Ford, “The Next President’s Big Iraq Problem,” The Middle East Institute, May 12, 2016, http://www.mei.edu/content/at/next-presidents-big-iraq-problem
Amb Freddy-Eytan, “The Failures of the International Community in the Middle East since Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916-2016,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 2016. http://jcpa.org/the-failures-in-the-middle-east-since-the-sykes-picot-agreement/#_ch2
Nadav Greenberg, “Walk the line: The United States between Israel and the Palestinians,” Brookings Institute, May 26, 2016. www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/05/26-martin-indyk-israel-palestinians-greenberg
Jeffrey Herf, “Hitler and the Nazis’ Anti-Zionism,” Fathom, spring 2016. http://fathomjournal.org/hitler-and-the-nazis-anti-zionism-2/
i24 News Staff, “Israeli envoy leads historic anti-BDS summit at UN headquarters,” i24News, May 31, 2016. www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/115195-160531-israeli-envoy-leads-historic-anti-bds-summit-at-un-headquarters
Prof. Efraim Inbar, “Israel’s Palestinian Dilemmas,” BESA Center, May 3, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israels-palestinian-dilemmas/
Zubair Iqbal, “Iran’s Post-Sanctions Economic Options,” Middle East Institute, May 11, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/irans-post-sanctions-economic-options
James F. Jeffrey and Michael Eisenstadt, “U.S. Military Engagement in the Broader Middle East,” The Washington Institute, Spring 2016. www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/u.s.-military-engagement-in-the-broader-middle-east
Jerusalem Post Staff, “Israeli selection for Eurovision contest in Sweden advances to finals,” Jerusalem Post, May 13, 2016. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-selection-for-Eurovision-contest-in-Sweden-advances-to-finals-453901
Emmanuel Karagiannis, “Shifting Eastern Mediterranean Alliances,” Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2016. http://www.meforum.org/5877/shifting-eastern-mediterranean-alliances
Efraim Karsh, “Obama’s Middle East Delusions,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2016. http://www.meforum.org/5685/obama-middle-east-delusions
Efraim Karsh, “Israel’s Palestinian Dilemmas,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, May 3, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israels-palestinian-dilemmas/
Abigail Kelin leichman, “Computers, not camels, at Israel’s first Bedouin high-tech firm” Israel21c, ay 25, 2016. www.israel21c.org/computers-not-camels-at-israels-first-bedouin-high-tech-firm/
Fanuel Lakew, “Ethiopia: Israel Provides Food Assistance to Drought Victims,” The Ethiopia Herald, May 13, 2016. http://allafrica.com/stories/201605161091.html
Eran Lerman, “Between Paris and Cairo: Balancing Security and Diplomacy,” BESA Center, May 31, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/342-between-paris-and-cairo/
David Makovsky, “Security Challenges,” Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Joint Hearing on “Israel Imperiled: Threats to the Jewish State,” House Foreign Affairs Committee, April 19, 2016.http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20160419/104817/HHRG-114-FA18-Wstate-MakovskyD-20160419.pdf
David Makovsky and Dennis Ross, “Losing by Winning: The Rupture of the Israeli Center,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 31, 2016. www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/losing-by-winning-the-rupture-of-the-israeli-center
Michelle Malka-Grossman, “Israeli economy standing strong as it develops energy sector,” Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2016. www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-economy-standing-strong-as-it-develops-energy-sector-454808
Hisham Melhem, “Sykes-Picot – The centennial of an imperial curse,” al-Arabiyah, May 21, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/05/21/Sykes-Picot-The-centennial-of-an-imperial-curse-.html
Harinder Mishra, “India organizes Indian culinary week in Israel,” India Today, May 18, 2016. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-organises-indian-culinary-week-in-israel/1/671018.html
Sami Moubayed, “A century after Sykes-Picot, its Sykes-Picot: the Arab Version–it is true that even if Arab masses had wanted to prevent ills of Sykes-Picot, they were too weak to do so,” The Arab Weekly, May 15, 2016. http://www.thearabweekly.com/?id=5078
Steven Plaut, “Israel’s Socialist Dreams vs. Capitalist Realities, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2016. http://www.meforum.org/6046/israel-socialist-dreams-capitalist-realities
Nadav Pollak and Matthew Levitt, “Hezbollah’s Biggest Loss to Date in Syria,” The Washington Institute, May 13, 2016. www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hezbollahs-biggest-loss-to-date-in-syria
Samuel C. Rajiv, “Indian Responses to Israel’s Gaza Operations,” BESA Center, May 25, 2016. http://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/indian-responses-israels-gaza-operations/
Brian Reeves, “The shifting nature of threats to Israel in its neighborhood,” Brookings Institute, May 2, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/05/02-threats-to-israel-security-reeves
Dennis Ross, “Why Middle Eastern Leaders Are Talking to Putin, Not Obama,” Politico Magazine, May 8, 2016, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/putin-obama-middle-east-leaders-213867
Michael Rubin, “New Directions in the Iranian and Hezbollah Threat Against Israel,” Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Joint Hearing on “Israel Imperiled: Threats to the Jewish State,” House Foreign Affairs Committee, April 19, 2016. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20160419/104817/HHRG-114-FA18-Wstate-RubinM-20160419.pdf
Oren Sabah, “The Fall of Israeli Agriculture,” Y-Net News, May 12, 2016.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4800307,00.html
Jonathan Schanzer, “The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign,” Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Joint Hearing on “Israel Imperiled: Threats to the Jewish State,” House Foreign Affairs Committee, April 19, 2016. http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20160419/104817/HHRG-114-FA18-Wstate-SchanzerJ-20160419.pdf
Jonathan Schanzer, “Gaza rebuilding falls by the wayside as Arab states leave Palestinians hanging,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, May 20th, 2016. www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-gaza-rebuilding-falls-by-the-wayside-as-arab-states-leave-palestinians-hang/
Yair Seroussi, “Israel’s achievements, on its 68th birthday,” Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2016. www.jpost.com/Opinion/Israels-achievements-on-its-68th-birthday-453656
Daniel Serwer, “’Recalculating U.S. Policy in the Middle East’ Less Military, More Civilian,” Middle East Institute, April 11, 2016. http://www.mei.edu/content/recalculating-us-policy-middle-east-less-military-more-civilian
Osama al-Sharif, “Why confederation with Palestine is suddenly a hot issue in Amman,” al-Monitor, May 31, 2016, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/05/palestine-jordan-confederation-abbas-dahlan-israel.html#ixzz4ALGFkCbk
Sima Shine, “The Conflict with the United States on Sanctions and the Internal Political Tension in Iran,” INSS, May 4, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11778
The Tower Staff, “Airport Executives from 40 Countries to Visit Israel for Security Lessons,” The Tower, May 31, 2016. www.thetower.org/cnn-representatives-of-40-countries-coming-to-learn-airport-security-from-israel/
HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia and Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, “A Conversation on Security and Peace in the Middle East,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 5, 2016.http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/a-conversation-on-security-and-peace-in-the-middle-east
Ashlee Vance, “How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel’s Tech Industry,” Bloomberg, May 25, 2016. www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hello-world-israel/
Vietnam Net Staff, “Israeli cuisine showcased in Hanoi,” Vietnam Net, May 11, 2016. http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainment/156287/israeli-cuisine-showcased-in-hanoi.html
Alix Wall, “Photographer Sinks His Teeth Into Israeli Food Scene,” The Forward, May 23, 2016. http://forward.com/food/340932/photographer-sinks-his-teeth-into-israeli-food-scene/
“War in Syria: Next Steps to Mitigate the Crisis,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee – Testimonies by Robert Ford, Nancy Lindborg, and Tamar Wittes, May 17, 2016, http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/war-in-syria-next-steps-to-mitigate-the-crisis-051716
Simona Weinglass, “In Kafr Kassem, tech school gives Israeli Arabs start-up ‘chutzpah’,” Times of Israel, May 29, 2016. www.timesofisrael.com/in-kafr-kassem-tech-school-gives-israeli-arabs-start-up-chutzpah/
Robin Wright, “How the Curse of Sykes-Picot Still Haunts the Middle East,” The New Yorker, April 30, 2016. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-curse-of-sykes-picot-still-haunts-the-middle-east
Amos Yadlin, “Israel’s Need to Take a Stand against the Assad Regime: A Moral Imperative and Strategic Necessity,” INSS, May 22, 2016. www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11829

#38 Contemporary Readings, April 2016
May 5, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Mohamed Abdelazziz, “Teaching Arabic in Israeli Schools-Between Security Preoccupations and the Cultural Dimension,” Fikra Forum, April 8, 2016. http://fikraforum.org/?p=9075#.VwtqCPkrJpg
Elliot Abrams, “If American Jews and Israel are Drifting Apart, What’s the Reason? The conventional wisdom says the problem is Israel. Its wrong,” Mosaic, April 4, 2016. http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2016/04/if-american-jews-and-israel-are-drifting-apart-whats-the-reason/
Amiram Barkat, “OECD sees Israeli economy slowing,” Globes, April 12, 2016. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-oecd-sees-israeli-economy-slowing-1001116688
Nahum Barnea, “Through the looking glass: An Israeli perspective on American politics,” Brookings Institute, April 19, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/04/19-israeli-perspective-us-election-barnea
Katherine Bauer, “Potential U.S. Clarification of Financial Sanctions Regulations[on Iran],” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 5, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/potential-u.s.-clarification-of-financial-sanctions-regulations
Ofra Bengio, “Turkey’s Imbroglios,” Dayan Center, April 11, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/tel-aviv-notes-turkey’s-imbroglios
Anna Borshchevskaya, “The Maturing of Israeli-Russian Relations,” inFocus Quarterly, Spring 2016. http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/5775/israel-russia-relations
Tamara Cofman,Wittes, “Israel imperiled: Threats to the Jewish state,” Brookings, April 19, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/research/testimony/2016/04/19-israel-imperiled-wittes
Derek Chollet, Ellen Laipson, Michael Doran, and Michael Mandelbaum, “Does the Middle East Still Matter? The Obama Doctrine and U.S. Policy,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 14, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/does-the-middle-east-still-matter-the-obama-doctrine-and-u.s.-policy
Anthony H. Cordesman. “The Comparative Metrics of ISIS and “’Failed State Wars,’ in Syria and Iraq,” Center for Strategic and International Affairs, March 23, 2016. http://csis.org/files/publication/160302_Syria_Iraq_ISIS_Failed_state_Wars.pdf
Barry Davis, “Music maestro Zubin Mehta remains young at heart,” Jerusalem Post, April 26, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Music-maestro-Zubin-Mehta-remains-young-at-heart-452413
Dan Diker, “BDS:Who Bears the Burden, Israelis or Palestinians,” inFocus, Spring 2016, Volume X, Number 2. http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/5773/bds-israel-palestinians
Daniel Douek, “Soda, sweets and schnitzel nixed from school menus,” Times of Israel, April 5, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/soda-sweets-and-schnitzel-nixed-from-school-menus/
Doron Ella and Oded Eran, “China’s Deputy Prime Minister Visits Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority,” INSS, April 21,2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11759
Ilan Evyatar, “Israel’s economy: Reasons to be cheerful – and some for concern,” Jerusalem Post, April 27, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Israels-economy-Reasons-to-be-cheerful-and-some-for-concern-452550
Hillel Frisch “The ABCs of Judea and Samaria: Towards Breakdown?” BESA Center, April 8, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/abcs-judea-samaria-towards-breakdown/
Daniel Gordis, Repsonse to Elliott Abrams, “How American Jews have detached themselves from Jewish Memory,” Mosaic, April 11, 2016. http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2016/04/how-american-jews-have-detached-themselves-from-jewish-memory/
Yoel Guzansky and Shlomo Brom, “King Salman’s Visit to Cairo, and the Transfer of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia,” INSS, April 19, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11748
Ariel Dominique Hendelman, “Music from the motherland,” Jerusalem Post, April 20, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Music-from-the-motherland-451869
Amira Howeidy, “Tiran-Sanafir: Redrawing maps and regional roles,” Al-Ahram Weekly,” April 14, 2016. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16085/17/Tiran-Sanafir–Redrawing-maps-and-regional-roles.aspx
Efraim Inbar, “The Syrian Civil War: An Interim Balance Sheet,” BESA Center, April 6, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/syrian-civil-war-interim-balance-sheet/
Pinhas Inbari, “The Internal Palestinian Fight for Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 14, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/internal-palestinian-fight-jerusalem/
Avi Issacharoff, “Meet the next Palestinian president,” Times of Israel, April 15, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-next-palestinian-president/
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Meet the Leonardo da Vincis of tomorrow,” Israel21c, April 5, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/meet-the-leonardo-da-vincis-of-tomorrow/
Emily B. Landau and Shimon Stein, “On the Brink of Nuclear Terror? A Threat and Response Balance Sheet,” INSS, April 13, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11737
Leil Leibovitz, “Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism,” Tablet, April 13, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/199847/anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism
Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman and Prof. Joshua Teitelbaum “Sailing through the Straits: The Meaning for Israel of Restored Saudi Sovereignty over Tiran and Sanafir Islands,” BESA Center, April 17, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/meaning-israel-restored-saudi-sovereignty-tiran-sanafir-islands/
David Makovsky and Gaith al-Omari, “Want to Keep Students from Turning to BDS? Try Mock Peace Negotiations with a Twist,” Forward, April 25, 2016. http://forward.com/opinion/338678/want-to-keep-students-from-turning-to-bds-try-mock-peace-negotiations-with/
Suzanne Maloney, “Past is prologue? Saudi Arabia’s clumsy oil diplomacy,” Brookings Institute, April 21, 2016. http://tinyurl.com/gpqfhga
JNS Staff, “Israel to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet U.N. climate change goals,”Jewish News Service, April 11, 2016. http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2016/4/11/israel-to-reduce-greenhouse-emissions-to-meet-un-climate-change-goals#.VwvMXfkrKUk
Jonah Mandel, “As talent returns home, Israeli jazz finds its groove,” Times of Israel, April 26, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-jazz-finding-its-groove-as-talent-returns-home/
Nadav Pollak, “Hamas Is Testing Israel Once Again,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 22, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hamas-is-testing-israel-once-again
Viva Sarah Press, “Stopping diabetes before it starts,” Israel21c, April 14, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/stopping-diabetes-before-it-even-starts/
Andrew Pulver, “Israeli actor and director Ronit Elkabetz dies aged 51,” The Guardian, April 19, 2016. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/19/israeli-actor-director-ronit-elkabetz-dies-aged-51
Grant Rumley and Jonathan Schanzer, “After Abbas, Le Deluge in the Palestinian Authority,” inFocus Quarterly, Spring 2016. http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/5779/after-abbas
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, “Anti-Zionism is the new Anti-Semitism,” Newsweek, April 3, 2016. http://www.newsweek.com/jonathan-sacks-anti-semitism-anti-zionism-bds-israel-labour-442978
Ben Sales, “Israeli audiences warm to home-grown horror movies,” Times of Israel, April 29, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-audiences-warm-to-home-grown-horror-movies/
Brenda Shaffer, “Fighting in the Caucasus: Implications for the Wider Region,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, April 7, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/fighting-in-the-caucasus-implications-for-the-wider-region
Ben Sollenberger, “The Economic Dimension of Peace in Turkey,” March 31, 2016, Fikra Forum, Fikra Forum, March 31, 2016. http://fikraforum.org/?p=8990#.Vwtq5PkrJpg
Micahel Steinhart, “Make Jewish Education Relevant,” Tablet, April 13, 2016. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/199840/make-jewish-education-relevant
Amir Taheri, “Iran: Why has the Obama Gamble Failed?” Asharq Al- Awsat, April 15, 2016. http://english.aawsat.com/2016/04/article55349651/opinion-iran-obama-gamble-failed
Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, “Has Egyptian President Abd el Fattah el Sisi Lost his Charm?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 21, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/egyptian-president-abd-el-fattah-el-sisi-lost-charm/#sthash.pZU8gx34.dpuf
Times of Israel Staff, “Israeli-directed film about Arab rapper wins big at Tribeca,” Times of Israel, April 22. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-directed-film-about-arab-rapper-wins-big-at-tribeca/
The Tower Staff, “Netanyahu, Putin Have “Very Successful” Military Coordination Meeting in Moscow,” The Tower, April 21, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3273-netanyahu-putin-have-very-successful-military-coordination-meeting-in-moscow/
The Tower Staff, “Arab States Failed to Send Billions in Pledged Donations for Gaza Reconstruction,” The Tower, April 19, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3256-arab-states-failed-to-send-billions-in-pledged-donations-for-gaza-reconstruction/

#37 Contemporary Readings, March 2016
April 4, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Asi Aivas, “Annual Arts Fest Heats Up Jerusalem,” Israel21c, March 16, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/annual-winter-arts-fest-heats-up-jerusalem/
Yehezkel Armon, “Israel Economy is Entering a New Stage,” Jerusalem Post, March 8, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/View-from-Jerusalem/Israel-Economy-is-Entering-a-New-Stage-447237
Mr. Tony Badran, Dr. Daniel L. Byman, and Dr. Matthew Levitt, Subcommittee Hearing: Hezbollah’s Growing Threat Against U.S. National Security Interests in the Middle East, House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, March 22, 2016. https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-hezbollahs-growing-threat-against-us-national-security-interests-middle
Abdel Bari Atwan, “The Islamic State: Roots, Savagery, and Future,” Railyoum,com March 15, 2016. http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=406791
Amiram Barkat, “Treasury lowers Israel’s 2016 growth forecast,” Globes, March 30, 2016. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-treasury-lowers-israels-2016-growth-forecast-1001113819
Alon Ben David, “Six Months of Terrorist Attacks by Lone Individuals: To Be Continued,” INSS, March 20, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11622
Ilan Berman, “Russia’s Risky Syria Strategy,” The Journal of International Security Affairs, Winter 2016. http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/number-30/russias-risky-syria-strategy#sthash.ycmLv4GF.dpuf
Daniel L. Byman, “Shifting U.S. Interests in the Middle East,” Brookings, March 2, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/03/02-shifting-us-interests-middle-east-byman
Monti Chorev, “Deterrence Campaigns: Lessons From IDF Operations in Gaza,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, March 20, 2016. http://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/deterrence-campaigns-lessons-idf-operations-gaza/
Omer Einav, “Beyond the Threats: Nasrallah’s Recent Statements,” INSS, March 28, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11663
Khaled Elgindy, “A View from the West Bank: Three Key Takeaways,” Brookings, March 21, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/03/21-west-bank-trip-report-elgindy
Alberto M. Fernandez, “Countering the Islamic State’s Message,” The Journal of International Security Affairs, Winter 2016. http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/number-30/countering-islamic-states-message
Hillel Frisch, “Israel’s Five Policy Options Regarding Judea and Samaria,” Besa Center, March 29, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israels-five-policy-options-regarding-judea-samaria/
Ben Gladstone, “Brown University: Where Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism Do and Don’t Meet,” The Tower, March 25, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3141-brown-university-where-anti-zionism-and-anti-semitism-do-and-dont-meet/
Edmund Ingham, “Israel Cyber-Tech Startup Minerva Labs Say Prevention Without Detection Is Possible,” Forbes, March 12, 2016. http://www.forbes.com/sites/edmundingham/2016/03/12/israel-cyber-tech-startup-minerva-labs-prevention-without-detection-is-possible/#634af6366774
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Innovation Program for Start-Ups in the Arab Sector,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, March 7, 2016. http://mfa.gov.il/mfa/innovativeisrael/economy/pages/innovation-program-for-start-ups-in-the-arab-sector-7-mar-2016.aspx
Emanuel Karagiannis, “Shifting Eastern Mediterranean Alliances,” Middle East Forum, Spring 2016. http://www.meforum.org/5877/shifting-eastern-mediterranean-alliances
Yossi Kupferwasser, “Dying for Allah,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 23, 2016. http://jcpa.org/dying-for-allah/
Yakov Lappin, “Israeli, Indian defense firms sign major cooperation agreement,” Jerusalem Post, March 29, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-Indian-defense-firms-sign-major-cooperation-agreement-449567
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Is Europe Ready to Adopt Israel’s Approach to Security?” Israel21c, March 23, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/is-europe-ready-to-adopt-israels-approach-to-security/
Eran Lerman, “The Mediterranean as a Strategic Environment: Learning a New Geopolitical Language,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, March 10, 2016. http://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/mediterranean-new-geopolitical-language/
Matthew Levitt, “The Islamic State’s Lone-Wolf Era Is Over, ”Foreign Policy, March 24, 2016. http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/24/the-islamic-states-lone-wolf-era-is-over/
Alon Levkowitz, “Implications of Greater Chinese Involvement in the Mideast,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, February 25, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/implications-of-greater-china-involvement-in-the-mideast/
Michael Lipka, “A closer look at Jewish identity in Israel and the U.S.” Pew Research Center, March 16, 2016. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/16/a-closer-look-at-jewish-identity-in-israel-and-the-u-s/
Zvi Magen, Vera Michlin-Shapir, and Shlomo Brom, “A Roussian Withdrawal from Syria, or Merely a Cahnge in the Form of Involvement?” INSS, March 29, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11668
Sean McMeeken, “Russia Returned to a Middle East if Never Left,” Chatham House, March 2016. https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/twt/russia-returns-middle-east-it-never-really-left
Aaron David Miller, “There is No Hollywood Ending for Syria,” The Compass–Real Clear World, March 4, 2016, http://www.realclearworld.com/blog/2016/03/there_is_no_hollywood_ending_for_syria_111742.html
Orit Perlov, “Children of Tunnels, Children of Knives,” INSS, March 9, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11561
John Reed and Murad Ahmed, “Can Israel go from start-up to scale-up nation?” Financial Times, March 21, 2016. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e4b5a70a-c903-11e5-a8ef-ea66e967dd44.html#axzz44lSM0bnk
Paul Rivlin, “The Dominoes Fall: The War in Syria, Europe and Turkey,” Iqtisadi, March 31, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-dominoes-fall-war-syria-europe-and-turkey
Dennis Ross, “Why the Nuclear Deal Hasn’t Softened Iran’s Hard-Line Policies,” Politico Magazine, March 6, 2016. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/nuclear-deal-hasnt-softened-irans-hard-line-policies-213702
Philip Carl Salzman, “Tribalism Drives Middle East Violence,” Middle East Forum, March 25, 2016. http://www.meforum.org/5924/tribalism-middle-east
Uri Savir, “Where are Israeli-Palestinian Security Talks Heading?” Al-Monitor, March 27, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/security-idf-palestinian-cities-oslo-accords-area-a.html
Penny Schwartz, “These Artistic Trailblazers Aim to Express Israel’s Multiculturalism,” 90.9WBUR, March 28, 2016. http://artery.wbur.org/2016/03/28/israeli-trailblazers-boston
David Shamah, “White House Taps Israeli Tech to Help Solve California Water Problems,” Times of Israel, March 22, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-taps-israeli-tech-to-help-solve-california-water-problems/
Jonathan Spyer, “War and Madness,” Middle East Forum,” March 28, 2016. http://www.meforum.org/5929/war-madness
Neil Swidey, “Where Did ISIS Come From? The Story Starts Here (Bremer in Iraq),” The Boston Globe, March 10, 2016. http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2016/03/10/where-did-isis-come-from-the-story-starts-here/eOHwJQgnZPNj8SE91Vw5hK/story.html?event=event25
Jonathan S. Tobin, “Was Meir Dagan Right About Iran?” Commentary Magazine, March 2016.https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/israel/meir-dagan-right-iran/
The Tower.org Staff, “Israel, South Africa to Strengthen Ties in Agriculture, Science and Technology,” March 18, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3111-israel-south-africa-to-strengthen-ties-in-agriculture-science-and-technology/
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, “Syria after the Russian Intervention,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, March 2016. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2016C16_oweis.pdf
Jim Zanotti, “US Assistance to the Palestinians,” Congressional Research Service, March 18, 2016. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS22967.pdf

#36 Contemporary Readings, February 2016
March 7, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Hussein Abdulhussein, “Five Lessons from Syria,” Now, February 2, 2016. https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/566585-five-lessons-from-syria
Abdelmahdi Alsoudi, “The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Political Future of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East: Jordan as a Case Study,” Rubin Center, February 23, 2016. http://www.rubincenter.org/2016/02/the-impact-of-the-arab-spring-on-the-political-future-of-the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-middle-east-jordan-as-a-case-study/
Nahum Barnea, “Israel to transfer NIS 500 million in withheld taxes to Palestinians,” Y-Net News, February 26, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4771224,00.html
Burak Bekdil, “Russia’s Trap: Luring Sunnis into War,” Gatestone institute, February 16, 2016. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7441/russia-syria-sunni-war
Natalie Vainer Benaiah, “Who’s Afraid of ISIS?” Ynet News.com, February 17, 2016.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4767576,00.html
Hannah Brown, “Migrants, Women and Israel Win Big at Berlinale,” Jerusalem Post,” February 21, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Migrants-women-and-Israel-win-big-at-Berlinale-445652
A.J. Caschetta, “Syracuse U. Professor Exposes the Anti-Semitic Foundations of BDS,” American Thinker, February 25, 2016. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/fighting_the_bds_movement.html
James R. Clapper, Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, Director of National Intelligence, February 9, 2016, http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Clapper_02-09-16.pdf
Steven A. Cook, “Who Exactly Are ‘the Kurds’? The Atlantic, February 25, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/kurds-turkey-pkk-ypg/470991/
Meir Elran, Eran Yasiv, Mohammad Abo Nasra,” The Five-Year Plan to Integrate the Arab Population in Israel: A Quantum Leap Forward?” INSS Insight, February 2, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11389
Oded Eran and Owen Alterman, “The Road to the White House: The Establishment, the Populists, and What They Mean for Israel,” INSS Insight, February 4, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11413
Alberto M. Fernandez, “Countering the Islamic State’s Message,” The Journal of International Security Affairs, 30 (Winter 2016). http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/number-30/countering-islamic-states-message
Brandon Friedman, “Tel Aviv Notes: Saudi Brinkmanship in the Syrian War,” Dayan Center, February 28, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/tel-aviv-notes-saudi-brinkmanship-syrian-war
Danielle Crittenden Frum, “The Next Ottolenghi: How Philly’s Michael Solomonov is Globalizing Israeli Cuisine,” February 2, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danielle-crittenden/the-next-ottolenghi-how-p_b_9140048.html
Hanin Ghaddar, “Iran Won Lebanon,” NOW, February 4, 2016. http://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/566574-iran-won-lebanon
Eytan Gilboa, “Obama and Israel: The Final Year,” BESA Center, February 17, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/obama-and-israel-the-final-year-2/
Hirsch Goodman and Yossi Kupperwasser (Ed.), “The Knife and the Message: The Roots of the New Palestine Uprising,” [Seven articles, 100 pages] Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 2016. http://jcpa.org/the-knife-and-the-message-the-roots-of-the-new-palestinian-uprising/
Alex Grobman, “BDS: The movement to destroy Israel,” Arutz Sheva, February 21, 2016. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Generic/Generic/SendPrint?print=1&type=1&item=18438
Yossi Klein Halevi, “Israel’s Options in a Chaotic Middle East,” The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2016, http://www.wsj.com/articles/israels-options-in-a-chaotic-middle-east-1456512527?tesla=y
John Hudak, “What the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Means for the Middle East,” Brookings, February 15, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2016/02/22-us-presidential-election-middle-east-hudak
Efraim Inbar, “The Consequences of American Retreat from the Middle East,” BESA Center Perspectives, February 24, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/consequences-of-american-retreat-from-the-middle-east/
Israel21c Staff, “Arab-Israeli Tech Hub Opens Near Tel Aviv,” The Tower, February 22, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/2995oc-arab-israeli-tech-hub-opens-near-tel-aviv/
Efraim Karsh, “Obama’s Middle East Delusions,” The Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2016, Volume 23: Number 1, http://www.meforum.org/5685/obama-middle-east-delusions
Wharton Staff, “Integrating Arabs into Israel’s High-Tech Sector,” Knowledge @ Wharton, February 1, 2016. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/integrating-arabs-into-israels-high-tech-sector/
Isi Leibler, “The Tragedy of Ehud Olmert in Retrospect,” Algemeiner, February 19, 2016. http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/19/the-tragedy-of-ehud-olmert-in-retrospect/
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israel’s Newest National Park, Palmahim Beach,” Israel21c, February 22, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/israels-newest-national-park-palmahim-beach/
Tanvi Madan, “Why India and Israel Are Bringing Their Relationship Out from ‘Under the Carpet,’” Brookings, February 11, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/02/11-india-israel-relations-madan
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, “Between Alliance and Rivalry: Egyptian-Israeli Relations Remain Solid, If Not Particularly Warm,” Rubin Center, February 16, 2016. http://www.rubincenter.org/2016/02/between-alliance-and-rivalry-egyptian-israeli-relations-remain-solid-if-not-particularly-warm/
Arye Mekel, “A New Geopolitical Bloc is Born in the Eastern Mediterranean: Israel, Greece and Cyprus,” February 16, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-greece-and-cyprus/
Aaron David Miller, “Moderation in Iran?” Don’t get your hopes up? Los Angeles Times, February 26, 2016, http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-miller-iran-elections-20160226-story.html
Dr. Jacques Neriah, “Earthquakes in the Middle East,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 24, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/earthquakes-of-the-middle-east/
Raed Omari, “Can Arab world economies achieve what politics couldn’t?” Al-arabiya, February 29, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/02/29/Can-Arab-world-economies-achieve-what-politics-couldn-t-.html
Viva Sarah Press, “Oracle Buys Ravello Systems for $500 Million,” Israel21c, February 23, 2016. http://www.israel21c.org/oracle-buys-ravello-systems-for-500-million-2/
James Renton, “The post-colonial caliphate: Islamic State and the memory of Sykes-Picot,” The
Conversation, February 23, 2016, http://theconversation.com/the-post-colonial-caliphate-islamic-state-and-the-memory-of-sykes-picot-52655
Paul Rivlin, “Iqtisadi: Saudi Arabia’s Multiple Crises,” Dayan Center, February 24, 2016. http://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-saudi-arabias-multiple-crises
Asaf Romirowsky and Benjamin Weinthal, “The Obama Administration’s Soft Boycott of Israel,” The National Interest, February 16, 2016. http://www.meforum.org/5856/obama-administration-israel-boycott
Uri Savir, “Israelis, Palestinians Secretly Discuss French Initiative,” Al-Monitor, February 14, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/02/secret-talks-france-israel-palestinians-international.html
David Shamah, “Bill Gates: Israeli Tech ‘Changing the world,’” Times of Israel, February 25, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-gates-israeli-tech-changing-the-world/
Michael Singh, “The Great Unraveling [of the Middle East],” Washington Institute for Near East Policy,” February 25, 2016, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-great-unraveling
Shimon Stein, “Israel-European Union Relations: Crisis as a Norm,” INSS Insight, Feburary 22, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11455
Jessica Steinberg, “A Little Bit Oud Country, A Little Bit Rock ‘N’ Roll,” Times of Israel, February 27, 2016. http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-little-bit-oud-country-a-little-bit-rock-n-roll/
The Tower Staff, “Gallup: American Sympathy for Israel Strong Across ‘All Major Political Subgroups,’” The Tower, February 29, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/3023-gallup-american-sympathy-for-israel-strong-across-all-major-political-subgroups/
Steven Windmueller, “The 2016 Election: Jews and The Politics,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 1, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/the-2016-election-jews-and-their-politics/
Sharon Wrobel, “Nestle to Buy Out Israeli Food Maker Osem for About $840 Million,” Bloomberg, February 4, 2016. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-04/nestle-to-buy-out-israeli-food-maker-osem-for-about-840-million
Amos Yadlin, “Past Lessons and Future Objectives: A Preemptive Strike on Hamas Tunnels,” INSS Insight, February 15, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11428
Yossi Yehoshua, “Gadi Eisenkot: A Leading Moral Figure,” YNET News, February 18, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4767915,00.html
Michael Young, “True or False? America is deeply distrusted over Syria, here’s why,” January 29, 2016. NOW, https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/566549-true-or-false
Eyal Zisser, “The farce of the Iranian elections,” Israel Hayom, February 28, 2016,
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=15381

#35 Contemporary Readings, January 2016
February 2, 2016Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling
Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Faisal J. Abbas, “An Unshackled Iran can only be Countered by a Firm Saudi Arabia,” Al-Arabiya, January 18, 2016. http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/01/18/An-unshackled-Iran-can-only-be-countered-by-a-firm-Saudi-Arabia.html
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, “The Islamic State, Turkey, and Transportation,” Rubin Center, January 11, 2016. http://www.rubincenter.org/2016/01/the-islamic-state-turkey-transportation/
Sona Bahadur, “How Israel Went from a Culinary Desert to Gourmet Destination,” The Indian Express, January 3, 2016. http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/food-wine/a-taste-of-israel/
Henri J. Barkey, “The Longest War (ISIS),” The Wilson Center, January 3, 2016. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/the-longest-war
Ofra Bengio, “The idea of stabilizing the region could unite Turkey and Israel,” Interview in The Turkish Weekly Journal, January 26, 2016. http://www.turkishweekly.net/2016/01/26/news/bengio-i-the-idea-of-stabilizing-the-region-could-unite-turkey-and-israel/
Eyal Bino, “Internet of Things is the Next Big Thing in Israeli Tech—Here’s Why,” Forbes, January 3, 2016. http://www.forbes.com/sites/eyalbino/2016/01/03/internet-of-things-is-the-next-big-thing-in-israeli-tech-heres-why/#dbe4bd736a8a
Hannah Brown, “Israeli Film Takes Top Prize at Sundance,” Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Israeli-film-takes-top-prize-at-Sundance-443421
Raghida Dergham, “What Has the U.S. ‘Leading the World from Behind’ Achieved?” Al Arabiya, January 18, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/viewss/2016/01/18/What-has-the-U-S-leading-the-world-from-behind-achieved-.html
Itamar Eichner, “Implementation Day: Iran Sanctions Lifted,” Ynet News, January 17, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4753511,00.html
Shlomi Eldar, “How Palestinian Media Contributes to Cycle of Incitement,” Al-Monitor, January 29, 2016. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/01/palestinian-authority-tv-station-incitement-terror-attacks.html
Omri Ephraim, “776,500 Israeli Children Live in Poverty,” Ynet News, December 9, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4737047,00.html
Alex Fishman, “Living in a Dream World: Obama’s Hollywood Vision of the Middle East,” Ynet News, January 16, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4754168,00.html
Yaron Friedman, “2016 will be the year ISIS’s Fate will be Determined,” Ynet News, January 15, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4753278,00.html
Gabe Friedman, “Israeli Composer of Indian Muslim Music Collaborates with Radiohead Guitarist,” Forward, January 28, 2016. http://forward.com/the-assimilator/332309/israeli-composer-of-indian-muslim-music-collaborates-with-radiohead-guitari/
Manfred Gerstenfeld and Jamie Berk, “The Moral Relativism of the United Nations,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 13, 2016. http://jcpa.org/article/the-moral-relativism-of-the-united-nations/
Michael Herzog, “Deterring Iran: Time for a New Mindset,” Fathom, August 2015. http://fathomjournal.org/deterring-iran-time-for-a-new-mindset/
Shoula Romano Horing, “Can Israeli Arabs be Fully Loyal Citizens?” Ynet News, January 11, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4750994,00.html
Eliyahu Kamisher, “How the KRG (Kurdish) Quasi-State Built an Independent Oil Industry,” Moshe Dayan Center, January 2016. http://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-how-krg-quasi-state-built-independent-oil-industry
Yael Kaplan, Ryan Hartney, and Andrew Felsenthal, “Luxury Alongside Poverty in the Palestinian Authority,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, November 5, 2015. http://jcpa.org/article/luxury-alongside-poverty-in-the-palestinian-authority/
Isabel Kershner, “Israel Approves Prayer Space at Western Wall for Non-Orthodox Jews,” New York Times, January 31, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/world/middleeast/israel-western-wall-prayer.html
Eran Lerman, “New Permutations in the Mideast ‘Game of Camps,'” Begin-Sadat Center, January 17, 2016. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/new-permutations-in-the-mideast-game-of-camps/
Charles Lister, “Jihad Rivalry: The Islamic State Challenges Al-Qaeda,” Brookings Institute, January 27, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/01/27-islamic-state-challenges-alqaida-lister
Zvi Magen, Udi Deke and Sarah Fainberg, “How Deep are the Cracks in the Russian-Iranian Coalition in Syria?” INSS Insight, January 3, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11210
Hisham Melhem, “The Return of the Myth of Insoluble Ancient Conflicts,” Al-Arabiya, January 16, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/01/16/The-return-of-the-myth-of-insoluble-ancient-conflicts.html
Hisham Melhem, “The Arab World is a House with No Roof,” Al-Arabiya, January 2, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/01/02/The-Arab-world-is-a-house-with-no-roof.html
Hisham Melhem, “The Autumn of the Arab Patriarchs,” Al-Arabiya, January 9, 2016. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/01/09/The-autumn-of-the-Arab-patriarchs-.html
Nuray Mert, “Another Banal Expression of Authoritarianism in Turkey,” Zaman, January 18, 2016. http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist/lale-kemal/legitimizing-corruption_409967.html
Menahem Milson, “Sadat in Jerusalem: Behind the Scenes,” Jewish Review of Books, Winter 2016. https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/1966/sadat-in-jerusalem-behind-the-scenes/
Anna Newby, “Why There Are No Good Policy Options on Syria,” Brookings Institute, January 19, 2016. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/01/19-no-good-policy-options-on-syria-newby
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, “Burying Heads in Geneva Sands, Without Dismantling the Sectarian Crux of Assad’s Rule, Syria Peace Talks are Unlikely to Usher in Stability,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, December 2015. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C52_ows.pdf
Itamar Radai and Arik Rudnitzky, “Bayan: The Arabs in Israel,” INSS, December 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/uploadImages/systemFiles/Bayan_2015_Dec_no.%206%20ENG.pdf
Yehudit Ronen, “Libya’s Descent into Chaos,” Middle East Quarterly 23:1 (Winter 2016). http://www.meforum.org/5686/libya-descent-into-chaos
David Rosenberg, “Bigger Budgets Won’t Buy Israel’s Arabs Equality,” The Jerusalem Post, January 7, 2016. http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.696010
Max Samarov and Amada Botfeld, “Framing Israel: The Distortions of the New Boycott-Driven School Curriculum,” The Tower, January 2016. http://www.thetower.org/article/framing-israel-the-distortions-of-the-new-bds-driven-school-curriculum/
Daria Shichrit, Einav Yogev, Yoram Schweitzer, “Suicide Attacks in 2015,” INSS Insight, January 26, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/uploadImages/systemFiles/No.%20789%20-%20Daria,%20Einav,%20and%20Yoram%20for%20web278300049.pdf
Michael Singh, “The Middle East After JCPOA,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 20, 2016. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/testimony/SinghTestimony20160120.pdf
Jonathan Spyer, “Teheran vs. Riyadh,” Middle East Forum, January 8, 2016. http://www.meforum.org/5774/teheran-vs-riyadh
Gerald Steinberg, “Why Israel is Frustrated with American Jewish Leaders,” New York Jewish Week, January 27, 2016, http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/opinion/why-israel-frustrated-american-jewish-leaders#2Adv2K7JpJGb70EP.99
Guido Steinberg, “The Other Vanguard of International Terrorism Despite Setbacks Al-Qaeda Profits from Yemen Civil War,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, January 4, 2016. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2016C04_sbg.pdf
The Tower.org Staff, “U.S. Ambassador Apologizes After Comments Trigger Israeli Outrage,” The Tower, January, 25, 2016. http://www.thetower.org/2861-u-s-ambassador-apologizes-after-comments-trigger-israeli-outrage/
Carmit Sapir Vitz, “Christian Arabs Increase Integration into Israeli Society,” The Jerusalem Post, January 17, 2016. http://www.jpost.com/Christian-News/Christian-Arabs-increase-integration-into-Israeli-society-441744
Esther Webman, “The Islamic State (IS) and al-Qa’ida Ideology and Practice,” The Moshe Dayan Center, January 2016. http://dayan.org/content/tel-aviv-notes-islamic-state-and-al-qa%CA%BFida-ideology-and-practice
Amos Yadlin, “Two States, Four Paths for Achieving Them,” January 15, 2016, Middle East Politics & Policy, Brookings Institution, http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/01/15-two-states-four-paths-israeli-palestinian-yadlin
Amos Yadlin, “Another Round in the Saudi-Iranian Confrontation: What Does It Mean, and What Lies Ahead?” INSS Insight, January 14, 2016. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11257
Ben-Dror Yemini, “A Wakeup Call for the Left,” Ynet News, January 15, 2016. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4753465,00.html
Daniel Zisenwine, “Tunisia’s Fragile Post-Revolutionary Order North African Turmoil,” Middle East Quarterly 23:1 (Winter 2016). http://www.meforum.org/5688/tunisia-after-revolution

#34 Contemporary Readings, December 2015
January 6, 2016Israel and the Middle East
Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror and Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman, “Jordanian Security and Prosperity: An Essential Aspect of Israeli Policy,” BESA Center, December 27, 2015. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/9583/
Associated Press, “In Israel, Arab chefs carve out a distinct cuisine,” Ynet News, December 12, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4738173,00.html
Dan Arbell, “Back together? Why Turkey-Israel relations may be thawing,” Brookings Institute, December 14, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/12/14-turkey-israel-thawing-relations-arbell
Amiram Barkat, “Israeli public transport and water prices to fall 17%,” Globes, December 27, 2015. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-public-transport-and-water-prices-to-fall-17-1001091346
Arielle Ben Solomon and Lidar Grave-Lazi, “Education council pushing for first state-funded Arab academic college in North,” Jerusalem Post, December 21, 2015. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Education-council-pushing-for-first-state-funded-Arab-academic-college-in-North-437987
Ron Ben-Yishai, “Saudi Arabia’s War of Independence (seeking to lead a moderate group of Moslem Nations),” Y-Net News, December 17, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4740583,00.html
Vince Chadwick and Maïa De La Baume, “How one phrase divided the EU and Israel,” Politico, January 4, 2016. http://www.politico.eu/article/best-before-1967-how-the-eu-labeled-israels-occupied-territories-food-labels-european-commission/
Omer Einav, “Moderation and Radicalization in Lebanon,” INSS Insight, December 13, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11089
Shlomi Eldar, “51 years after its founding, where is Fatah heading?” al-Monitor, December 30, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/12/fatah-existence-51-rift-israel-two-state-solution-intifada.html
Oded Eran, “Active Israeli Policy in the Mediterranean Basin,” INSS Insight, December 6, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11045
Mordechai Goldman, “Why have the ultra-Orthodox turned their back on Rivlin?” al-Monitor, December 28, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/12/president-reuven-rivlin-ultra-orthodox-knesset-reform.html
Yoael Guzansky, Zvi Magen and Oded Eran, “Russian Nuclear Diplomacy in the Middle East,” INSS Insight, December 29, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11195
Eitan Haber, “(Sharon) the only leader who dared (to confront the radical settlers),” Y-Net News, December 28, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4745160,00.html
Dana Kessler, “Matzo Balls on the Mediterranean,” Tablet Magazine, December 8, 2015. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/195628/keton-tel-aviv-restaurant
Oren Kessler, “Freed Prisoner’s Plight Underscores Egypt’s Security Failings,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, December 14, 2015. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/oren-kessler-freed-prisoners-plight-underscores-egypts-security-failings/
Adam Kitsch, “Amichai: the Tolerant Irony of Israel’s National Poet,” Tablet Magazine, December 21, 2015. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/195955/amichai-israels-national-poet
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israel to open world’s first aviation cyber innovation center,” Israel21c, December 24, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/israel-hosts-first-ever-aviation-cyber-innovation-center/
Hana Levi Julian, “1.7M Israeli Families Living Below Poverty Line,” Jewish Press, December 9, 2015. http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/1-7m-israeli-families-living-below-poverty-line/2015/12/09/
Zvi Magen and Sarah Feinberg, “Putin-Netanyahu Meeting in Paris and its Implications,” Institute for Strategic Affairs, December 3, 2015. http://valdaiclub.com/news/Putin-Netanyahu+Meeting+in+Paris/
Suzanne Maloney, “Toughness triangulated: Hillary Clinton’s policy on the Middle East,” Brookings Institute, December 12, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/12/12-hillary-clinton-trump-terrorism-tough-triangulate-maloney
Hisham Melhem, “2015, a year of milestones of horrors in the Middle East,” al-Arabiya, December 26, 2015. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2015/12/26/2015-a-year-of-milestones-of-horrors-in-the-Middle-East-.html
Mazal Mualem, “Likud’s first openly gay Knesset member finds mixed reception,” al-Monitor, December 30, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/12/amir-ohana-ceremony-knesset-gay-community-ultra-orthodox.html
Jonathan Neumann, “Can a Dry Country Like Israel Quench the World’s Thirst?” Forward, December 26, 2015. http://forward.com/culture/327841/can-a-dry-country-like-israel-quench-the-worlds-thirst/
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, “Burying Heads in Geneva Sands: Without Dismantling the Sectarian Crux of Assad’s Rule, Syria Peace Talks Are Unlikely to Usher in Stability,” Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), December 2015. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C52_ows.pdf
Shlomo Pitrikovsky, “Statistics show Jewish, Arab fertility rates now even,” Arutz Sheva, December 31, 2015. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/205754#.Vov2PTbmzUA
Viva Sarah Press, “2015 was red-hot year for Israeli high-tech scene,” Israel21c, December 31, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/2015-was-red-hot-year-for-israeli-high-tech-scene/
Eetta Prince-Gibson, “Israel’s Russians Show Pride by Openly Celebrating ‘Novy God’ on New Year’s Eve,” Forward, December 30, 2015. http://forward.com/news/israel/328328/russians-come-out-in-open-to-celebrate-novi-god-on-new-years-in-israel/
Reuven Rivlin, “What Israel should do to lay the groundwork for peace,” The Washington Post, December 8, 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-israel-should-do-to-lay-the-groundwork-for-peace/2015/12/08/58c71fb6-9d12-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html
Dennis Ross, “Nothing in the Middle East Happens by Accident—Except When It Does,” Mosaic, December 7, 2015. http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2015/12/nothing-in-the-middle-east-happens-by-accident-except-when-it-does/
Lawrence Rubin, “Why Israel outlawed the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement,” Brookings Institute, December 7, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/12/07-why-israel-outlawed-northern-branch-islamic-movement-rubin
Tzipi Shmilovitz, “Best new restaurant in US is Israeli,” Ynet News, December 29, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4745785,00.html
Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham, “Does ISIS Pose a WMD Threat?” BESA Center, December 13, 2015. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/9562/
Marc J. Sievers, “Riding the Egyptian-Israeli Roller Coaster, 2011-2015,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/riding-the-egyptian-israeli-roller-coaster
Shimon Stein and Shlomo Brom, “No Fundamental Change Expected in the Fight Against the Islamic State – For Now,” INSS Insight, December 16, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11115
Erez Striem, “The Reconfiguration of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt,” INSS Insight, December 22, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11150
Merve Tahiroglu, “Thank Russia for Turkey-Israel Rapprochement,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, December 18, 2015. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/merve-tahiroglu-thank-russia-for-turkey-israel-rapprochement/
Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, “Quwat al-Jalil: A Pro-Assad Palestinian Syrian Militia,” Rubin Research Center, December 23, 2015. http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/12/quwat-al-jalil-a-pro-assad-palestinian-syrian-militia/
Shibley Telhami, “How to (almost) eliminate the U.S. partisan divide on the Middle East,” Brookings Institute, December 17, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/12/17-middle-east-partisan-divide-telhami
Benjamin Weinthal, “Analysis: Are EU Labels On Settlement Products Triggering Anti-Semitism?” Foundation for Defense of Democracies, December 8, 2015. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/benjamin-weinthal-analysis-are-eu-labels-on-settlement-products-triggering-anti-semitism/
Tamara Cofman Wittes, “Israel’s inertia on the Palestinian conflict has a price: American support,” Brookings Institute, December 9, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/12/09-israeli-inertia-has-a-price-wittes
Ehud Yaari, “Hamas and the Islamic State: Growing Cooperation in the Sinai,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 15, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hamas-and-the-islamic-state-growing-cooperation-in-the-sinai
Yori Yalon, “Taglit brings thousands of young Jews to Israel for winter,” Israel Hayom, December 23, 2015. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=30631
Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak and Brandon Friedman, “Tel Aviv Notes: The Sultan versus the Tsar and the Syrian War,” The Moshe Dayan Center, December 10, 2015. http://dayan.org/content/tel-aviv-notes-sultan-versus-tsar-and-syrian-war

#33 Contemporary Readings, November 2015
December 2, 2015Israel and the Middle East
#33 Contemporary Readings, November 2015
Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Saleh Al-Shayeji, “Israel is Not Our Enemy,” Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa, MEMRI, November 30, 2015. http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8877.htm
Adna Abu Amer, “How Palestinian Divisions affect the intifada,” Al Monitor, November 3, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/11/palestinian-intifada-disputes-objectives.html
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, “Syria’s Unraveling Gives Way to New Regional Order,” BESA, November 1, 2015. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/syrias-unraveling-gives-way-to-new-regional-order/
Henry J. Barkey, “Paris, and Turkish Policy in Syria,” The Wilson Center, November 19, 2015. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/paris-and-turkish-policy-syria
Dan Blumenthal, “Is China a Friend of Israel?” Mosaic Magazine, November 16, 2015. http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/11/is-china-a-friend-of-israel/
Barry Davis, “Music: A Song for Two,” Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2015. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Music-A-song-for-two-433064
Akiva Eldar, “Pollard and Vanunu,” Al-Monitor, November 24, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/11/jonathan-pollard-mordechai-vanunu-spy-security-knesset-lobby.html
Shlomi Eldar, “Palestinian Media Treads Fine Line Between Empathy, Support for Attacks,” Al-Monitor, November 20, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/11/palestinian-attackers-media-glorify-israelis-terror-fatah.html
Oded Eran, Nizan Feldman, and Eran Yashiv, “The EU Decision to Indicate the Origin of Products from the Settlements,” INSS, Insight No. 769, November 19, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10970
Shmuel Even, “Abu Mazen’s Opposition to Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State: Strategic Implications,” INSS, Insight No. 762, November 4, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10902
Abraham H. Foxman, “The American Jewish Community and Its Relationship to Israel, Then and Now,” INSS, Insight No. 771, November 25, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10999
George Washington Center for Cyber & Homeland Security, “Paris Insights,” GWCCHC, November 2015. https://cchs.gwu.edu/sites/cchs.gwu.edu/files/image/CCHS_Paris%20Insights.pdf
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, “The Paris Attacks Reflect Intelligence Failure—Not a Change in ISIS Strategy,” IDC Herzliya, Rubin Center, November 20, 2015. http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/11/the-paris-attacks-reflect-intelligence-failure-not-a-change-in-isis-strategy/
James A. Jeffrey, “The U.S. must send ground forces to eliminate the Islamic State,” The Washington Post, November 16, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-must-send-ground-forces-to-eliminate-the-islamic-state/2015/11/16/685aff20-8c63-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Markus Kaim and Oliver Tamminga, “Russia’s Military Intervention in Syria Its Operation Plan, Objectives, and Consequences for the West’s Policies,” Stiftung Wissenschaft Und Politik- German Institute for International Affairs, November 2015. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C48_kim_tga.pdf
Secretary of State John Kerry, “US Policy on Syria,” an address to the US Institute of Peace, Wilson Center, November 12, 2015. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/kerry-us-policy-syria
Hardin Lang, Peter Juul, and Trevor Sutton, “Confronting the Terror Finance Challenge in Today’s Middle East, Center for American Progress,” November 2, 2015. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2015/11/02/124749/confronting-the-terror-finance-challenge-in-todays-middle-east/
Robert S. Litwak, “US Strategy toward the Islamic State,” The Wilson Center, November 19, 2015, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/us-strategy-toward-the-islamic-state
David Makovsky, “Netanyahu Comes to Washington: A Recalibration if Not a Reset,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 5, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/netanyahu-comes-to-washington-a-recalibration-if-not-a-reset
David Makovsky, “What Would Rabin Do?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 4, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/what-would-rabin-do
Ariel Malkah Hendelman, “Tuned in and Turned up in Tel Aviv,” Jerusalem Post, November 9, 2015. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Tuned-in-and-turned-up-in-Tel-Aviv-432504
Kobi Michael and Udi Deckel, “The Outbreak of ‘Individual Terrorism’ in the Palestinian Arena: The Old Box Lacks the Right Tools,” INSS, Insight No. 772. November 30, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=11012
Abdel Monem Said Aly and Shai Feldman, “Saving the Middle East,” Crown Center for Middle East Studies, November 2015, http://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/meb/meb95.html
Marina Ottaway, “Learning from Sykes-Picot,” Middle East Program, The Wilson Center, November 19, 2015, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/learning-sykes-picot
Benjamin Netanyahu, “Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech at the 37th Zionist Congress,” October 20, 2015. http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Speeches/Pages/speechcongress201015.aspx
David A. Patten, “Defeating ISIS, Rolling Back Iran,” Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2015. http://www.meforum.org/5479/defeating-isis-rolling-back-iran
Ambassador Anne W. Patterson Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, “Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on ‘The U.S. Role and Strategy in the Middle East,’” October 28, 2015. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/102815_Patterson_Testimony.pdf
Daniel Pipes, “Ending a Century of Palestinian Rejectionism,” The Washington Times, October 27, 2015. http://www.meforum.org/5591/palestinians-century-of-rejectionism
Sever Plotzker, “What do they mean when they say ‘Haredim must share the burden?’” Institute for Israel Studies at University of Maryland, November, 2015. http://israelstudies.umd.edu/files/Plotzker.pdf
Daniel Polisar, “Why Do Palestinians Believe What They Believe?” Mosaic Magazine, November 23, 2015. http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2015/11/why-do-palestinians-believe-what-they-believe/
David Pollock, “Compromise for Now, the End for Israel Later,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 19, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/compromise-for-now-the-end-of-israel-for-later
Paul Rivlin, “Climate Change Has Happened: The Middle East Climate Crisis,” The Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, October 22, 2015. http://www.aftau.org/document.doc?id=414
Yair Rosenberg, “European Union Issues Guidelines for Labeling Settlement Products,” Tablet Magazine, November 11, 2015. http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/194925/european-union-issues-guidelines-for-labeling-settlement-products
David Samuels, “ Middle East Has Fractured. Is Europe Next?” A Tablet Roundtable Discussion, Tablet, November19, 2015. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/195183/middle-east-roundtable
Uri Savir, “In Quest for Statehood, Palestinians Prepare Security Plans,” Al-Monitor, November 25, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/11/israel-palestine-security-policy-strategy-john-allen-kerry.html
Sarah Sewall, Under-Secretary of State for Civilian Security, “Mobilizing Against a ‘Preeminent Challenge of the Twenty-First Century’: Countering Violent Extremism,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 20, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/other/SewallRemarks20151120.pdf
Gilead Sher and Avner Halevi, “Disengaging from the West Bank Short of a Permanent Agreement: Tenable Security-Wise?” INSS, Insight No. 770, November 24, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10981
Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, “Iran Is Part of the Problem in Syria, Not Part of the Solution,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, November 26, 2015. http://jcpa.org/pdf/Terror-Is-Terror-Is-Terror-Michael-Segall-Vol15No36.pdf
Jonathan Spyer, “Israel is Avoiding the Abyss, For Now,” The Australian, October 31, 2015. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/israel-is-avoiding-the-abyss-for-now/story-e6frg6z6-1227588801326
The Tower Staff, “IAEA Chief: Questions About Iran’s Past Nuclear Work Remain Unresolved,” The Tower, November 27, 2015. http://www.thetower.org/2618-iaea-chief-questions-about-irans-past-nuclear-work-remain-unresolved/
Washington Institute Staff, “The Paris Response: Answering Urgent Questions in the Anti-ISIS Fight,” Multiple Authors, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 19, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-paris-response-answering-urgent-questions-in-the-anti-isis-fight
Robin Wright, “Holy Terror: The Spread of Jihad’s Wrath,” The Wilson Center, November 17, 2015, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/holy-terror-the-spread-jihads-wrath
Talya Zax, “Why Israel Is One of the World’s Most Financially Literate Nations,” Forward, November 26, 2015. http://forward.com/culture/325460/why-israel-is-one-of-the-worlds-most-financially-literate-nations/

#32 Contemporary Readings and Analyses, October 2015
October 29, 2015Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Éliette Abécassis “Jews of France hide like Marranos and turn towards Israel,” YNet News, October 20, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4713402,00.html
Yossi Alpher, “Israel-Palestine: From Oslo to the Slippery Slope,” Verdidebatt, October 10, 2015, http://www.verdidebatt.no/debatt/cat1/subcat4/thread11602890/#post_11602890
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, “This Is Not the Third Intifada,” BESA Center, October 22, 2015, http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/this-is-not-the-third-intifada/
Geoffrey Aronson, “Palestinian Security Forces: Living on Borrowed Time,” Middle East Institute, October 16, 2015, http://www.mei.edu/content/article/palestinian-security-forces-living-borrowed-time
Muriel Asseburg, “Strategies Against ISIS Need to Address Roots of Syria’s Civil War,” SWP Institute, October 6, 2015, http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publications/point-of-view/strategies-against-is-need-to-address-roots-of-syrias-civil-war.html
Nahum Barnea, “Who was the Real Rabin and What Remains of Oslo,” YNet News, October 26, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4716394,00.html
Josh Bender, “MSU’s Israeli Film Festival Offers Students Unique Look into Israeli Culture,” The State News, October 28, 2015, http://statenews.com/article/2015/10/israeli-film-festival-offers-msu-students-a-unique-look-into-israeli-culture
Ofra Bengio, “The Kurds and the Turkish State: Drifting Apart?” Tel Aviv Notes, October 8, 2015, http://www.dayan.org/sites/default/files/TLVNotes_2015_Oct10.pdf
Anna Borshchevskaya, “Does Putin Have a Plan for Syria?” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 16, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/does-putin-have-a-plan-for-syria
Ben Caspit, “The Death of Yitzhak Rabin’s Legacy,” Al Monitor, October 26, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/yitzhak-rabin-assassination-shimon-peres-rally-20-years.html
James Cook, “An Israeli Investor Says This Motivational Slogan from the Country’s Pilot Training School Should Apply to Tech Startups Too,” Business Insider, October 26, 2015, http://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-investor-gigi-levy-on-a-motivational-slogan-for-israeli-tech-startups-2015-10?r=UK&IR=T
Barry Davis, “A Delicate Balancing Act [dance],” Jerusalem Post, October 28, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/A-Delicate-Balancing-Act-430274
Raghida Dergham, “A Russian roadmap for the political transition in Syria,” Al Arabiya, October 27, 2015, http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2015/10/27/A-Russian-roadmap-for-the-political-transition-in-Syria.html
Shlomi Eldar, “Is Palestinian Public Leaving Its Leadership Behind?” Al Monitor, October 23, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/israel-palestine-intifada-young-generation-fatah-hamas.html
Alex Fishman, The Intifada of the Young and Hopeless,” YNet News, October 14, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4710577,00.html
David P. Goldman, “Cheap Oil Puts the House of Saud at Risk,” Asia Times, Middle East Forum, October 22, 2015, http://www.meforum.org/5582/saudis-cheap-oil
Michelle Malka Grossman, “Anti-Israel Billboard Causing Controversy in Detroit,” Jerusalem Post, October 26, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Anti-Israel-billboard-causing-controversy-in-Detroit-430069
Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, “Is Jerusalem Divided?” BESA Center, October 25, 2015, http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/is-jerusalem-divided/
Jonathan D. Halevi, “The Hidden Hand Behind the Palestinian Terrorism Wave,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, October 25, 2015, http://jcpa.org/article/the-hidden-hand-behind-the-palestinian-terror-wave/
Shlomo Hasson, “State and Religion in Israel Possible Scenarios-2023,” Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, 2015, http://israelstudies.umd.edu/Israel%202023%20State%20and%20Religion%20in%20Israel.pdf
David Horowitz, “Does a Gritty Ex-Cop’s Move to Israel Symbolize the End for France’s Jews?” Times of Israel, October 28, 2015, http://www.timesofisrael.com/does-a-gritty-ex-cops-move-to-israel-symbolize-the-end-for-frances-jews/
Pinhas Inbari, “The Muslim Schism Over Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 22, 2015, http://jcpa.org/article/the-muslim-schism-over-jerusalem/
Zipi Israeli and Orit Perlov, “Individual Terrorism: The Media Perspective,” INSS Insight No. 751, October 1, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10698
I24News Staff, “Israeli Lawmakers Vote to Make Arabic Compulsory in Schools,” I24News, October 28, 2015, http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/90636-151028-israeli-lawmakers-vote-to-make-arabic-compulsory-in-schools
JNS.org, “Walmart Caves to Arab-American Pressure, Pulls IDF Halloween Costume,” JNS.org, Ocotber 28, 2015, http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2015/10/28/walmart-caves-to-arab-american-pressure-pulls-idf-halloween-costume#.VjIofrerTcs=
JSpace Staff, “How Israeli Culture Found Its Way to a College Campus in China,” JSpace News, October 16, 2015, http://www.jspacenews.com/israeli-culture-found-way-college-campus-china/
Gil Karie, “A New Silicon Valley in the Middle East,” Forbes, October 7, 2015, http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesinternational/2015/10/07/a-new-silicon-valley-in-the-middle-east/
Yehuda Kurtzer, “Yitzhak Rabin Has an Urgent Message for Israelis—But They Can’t Hear It Now,” Forward, October 26, 2015, http://forward.com/opinion/323111/rabin-has-an-urgent-message-for-israelis-but-they-cant-hear-it-now/#ixzz3piGYxq2G
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israeli Guitar-Maker Hits a High Note in California,” Israel21c, October 28, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/israeli-guitar-maker-hits-a-high-note-in-california/
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Israel’s Galilee to Become Global Food-Tech Powerhouse,” Israel21c, October 11, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/israels-galilee-to-become-global-food-tech-powerhouse/
Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman, “Russian Ambitions and Israeli Opportunities in the Partition of Syria,” BESA Center, October 22, 2015, http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/russian-ambitions-and-israeli-opportunities-in-the-partition-of-syria/
Dr. Yaacov Lifshitz, “The Locker Committee: A Preordained Failure,” BESA Center, October 14, 2015, http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/the-locker-committee-a-preordained-failure/
Cnaan Lipshitz, “This Israeli Ex-Diplomat is Kenya’s Biggest Pop Star,” Jewish Journal, October 20, 2015, http://www.jewishjournal.com/culture/article/this_israeli_ex_diplomat_is_kenyas_biggest_pop_star
Doron Matza, Meir Elran, and Itamar Radai, “The Current Wave of Violemce and the Arabs in Israel,” INSS Insight No, 757, October 22, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10847
Yossi Melman, “The Gideon Doctrine: The Changing Middle East and IDF Strategy,” Jerusalem Post, September 13, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/The-Gideon-Doctrine-412594
Hisham Milhem, “Obama’s scarred legacy in the Middle East,” Al Arabiya, October 17, 2015, http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2015/10/17/Obama-s-scarred-legacy-in-the-Middle-East.html
Mazal Mualem, “Holocaust Comments Gaffe Won’t Harm Bibi,” Al Monitor, October 23, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/israel-netanyahu-al-husseini-holocaust-satire-media-humour.html
Daniel Pipes, “Turkey is on the Path to Rogue Dictatorship,” National Review, October 26, 2015, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426065/turkey-election-erdogan-dictatorship?target=author&tid=900923
Viva Sarah Press, “The Choreographer Who Turned Soccer into Dance,” Israel21c, October 20, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/the-choreographer-who-turned-soccer-into-a-dance-form/
Uzi Rebhun, “Jewish People Demography, 2015,” Jewish People Policy Institute, http://jppi.org.il/uploads/JPPI_2014-2015_Annual_Assessment_English-Jewish_People_Demography.pdf
Amnon Rimon and Lior Lehrs, “East Jerusalem: Explosive Reality and Proposals for De-escalation,” Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, September 2015, http://www.jiis.org/.upload/East%20Jerusalem%20summary_Sept24_2015_Final.pdf
Ben Sales, “Why Israel’s Labor Party Never Recovered After Rabin,” Times of Israel, October 28, 2015, http://www.timesofisrael.com/why-israels-labor-party-never-recovered-after-rabin/
Robert Satloff and James F. Jeffrey, “Misanalysis Makes a Mess, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 2, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/misanalysis-makes-a-mess
David Schenker, “Putin and the Shiite ‘Axis of Resistance,” The Hill, October 7, 2015, http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/defense/256164-putin-and-the-shiite-axis-of-resistance
Michael Segall, “Iran’s Stake in Syria,” October 22, 2015, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, http://jcpa.org/article/irans-stake-syria/
David Shamah, “Israeli Start-Up Uses Trojan Horse Technology to Kill Cancer Cells,” Times of Israel, October 26, 2015, http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-start-up-uses-trojan-horse-technology-to-kill-cancer-cells/
Gilead Sher, “The Residency Status of East Jerusalem’s Palestinians,” INSS Insight No. 759, October 28, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10860
Anav Silverman, Michael Zerf, and Tzapit Press Service, “Israeli Hosts Its 1st Ukrainian Film Festival,” YNet News, October 27, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4716888,00.html
Jonathan Spyer, “Toward the Abyss in Jerusalem,” Rubin Center, October 8, 2015, http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/10/toward-the-abyss-in-jerusalem/
Rebecca Shimoni Stoil, “Rekindled US-Israel Security Ties on Display in DC Meetings,” Times of Israel, October 27, 2015, http://www.timesofisrael.com/rekindling-us-israel-security-ties-on-display-in-dc-meetings/
Yedida Z. Stern, “The Rabin Assassination and Religious Responsibility,” Haaretz, October 26, 2015, http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.682219
TheTower.org Staff, “Abbas-Appointed Mufti: No Jewish Place of Worship Existed on Temple Mount,” The Tower, October 26, 2015, http://www.thetower.org/2478-abbas-appointed-mufti-no-jewish-place-of-worship-existed-on-temple-mount/
TheTower.org Staff, “150 British Artists, Including J.K. Rowling, Sign Letter Opposing BDS, The Tower, October 22, 2015, http://www.thetower.org/2467-150-british-artists-including-j-k-rowling-sign-letter-opposing-bds/
Julie Steigerwald, “Life-Saving Israeli Technology in the Face of Terror,” Jerusalem Post, October 22, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Tech/Israeli-technology-innovations-in-the-face-of-terror-429767
Amos Yadlin and Carmit Valensi, “Russia’s Involvement in Syria: A Strategic opportunity for Israel,” INSS Insight No. 755, October 20, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10813

#31 Contemporary Readings and Analyses, September 2015
October 2, 2015Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Tamer Al-Ghobashi, “Israeli Officials Concerned Over Gas Discovery in Egypt,” Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2015, http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-officials-concerned-over-gas-discovery-in-egypt-1441233087
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, “Israeli Strategic Challenges and Opportunities in the New Year,” BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 307, September 16, 2015, http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israeli-strategic-challenges-and-opportunities-in-the-new-year/
Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am, “In Jerusalem’s Teeming Mahne Yehuda, Rubbing Shoulders (Literally) with Every Man,” The Times of Israel, September 26, 2015, http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-jerusalems-teeming-mahane-yehuda-rubbing-shoulders-literally-with-everyman/
Yonathan Bar-On, “We Count for Nothing,” Times of Israel, September 29, 2015, http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-count-for-nothing/
Julie Bort, “27 Hottest Israeli Startups of 2015,” Business Insider, September 20, 2015, http://www.businessinsider.com/27-hottest-israel-startups-of-2015-2015-9
Yigal Carmon, “Iran Openly Declares That It Intends to Violate UNSCR 2231 That Endorses the JCPOA,” MEMRI, September 23, 2015, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8761.htm
Ben Caspit, “Why Israelis are Happier than Ever,” Al-Monitor, September 23, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/israelis-happy-optimistic-survey-economic-situation-security.html
William Clayton and Hussein Solomon, “Hezbollah: the Criminal Syndicate,” Middle East Institute New Delhi, February 23, 2015, http://mei.org.in/front/cms/publicationsDetail.php?id=OTY3&cid=Ng
Anthony H. Cordesman, “Rethinking the Wars Against ISIS and the U.S. Strategy for Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, September 28, 2015, http://csis.org/publication/rethinking-wars-against-isis-and-us-strategy-counter-terrorism-and-counter-insurgency
David Daoud, “Israel Sends Harsh Message to Jordan in Wake of King’s Accusations Regarding Temple Mount Violence,” Algemeiner, September 22, 2015, http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/09/22/israel-sends-harsh-message-to-jordan-in-wake-of-kings-accusations-regarding-temple-mount-violence/#
Tova Dvorin, “Six Israeli Universities Make World Top 500 List,” Arutz Sheva, September 30, 2015, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/201182#.Vg1DRdYV1pE
Ruth Eglash, “Israeli Fizzy Drinks Maker Sodastream Wants to Hire Syrian Refugees,” Washington Post, September 22, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/22/israeli-fizzy-drinks-maker-sodastream-wants-to-hire-syrian-refugees/
Itamar Eichner, “On Yom Kippur, 29 Migrants Cross from Egypt into Israel,” YNet News, September 24, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4703830,00.html
Nathan Guttman, “Haim Saban Leaves Pro-Israel Coalition Over Sheldon Adelson’s Right Wing Push,” Forward, September 30, 2015, http://forward.com/news/israel/321793/haim-saban-dumps-pro-israel-coalition-over-sheldon-adelsons-far-right-wing/
Yoel Guzansky and Shmuel Even, “Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States Amidst Falling Oil Prices and Regional Upheavals,” INSS Insight, September 7, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/uploadImages/systemFiles/No.%20744%20-%20Yoel%20and%20Shmulik%20for%20web208352511.pdf
Ryan Haas, “Former Israel Defense Minister Encourages U.S. Military Backing Against Iran Nuclear Facilities,” Jewish Political News and Updates, September 22, 2015, http://jpupdates.com/2015/09/22/former-israel-defense-minister-encourages-u-s-military-backing-against-iran-nuclear-facilities/
Michael Herzog, “New IDF Strategy Goes Public, Policy Watch 2479,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 28, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/new-idf-strategy-goes-public
Jacky Hugi, “Death of Egyptian Author Who Drove Across Israel Leaves Void in Israeli-Egyptian Relations,” Al-Monitor, September 30, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/egypt-peace-treaty-intellectuals-ali-salem-death-visit.html
Pinhas Inbari, “The Muslim Schism over Jerusalem,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 22, 2015, http://jcpa.org/article/the-muslim-schism-over-jerusalem/
Israel21c Staff, “Israeli Med Tech Company Bought for Record $929 Million,” Israel 21c, September 3, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/israeli-med-tech-company-bought-for-record-929-million/
JINSA’s Iran Strategy Council, “Assessment of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: Strategic Consequences for National Security,” JINSA, September 2015, http://www.jinsa.org/files/StrategicConsequencesforU.S.NationalSecurity.pdf
Efraim Karsh and Asaf Romirowsky, “The Politicization of Middle East Studies,” The American Interest, September 18, 2015, http://www.the-american-interest.com/byline/efraim-karsh/
Abigail Klein Leichman, “US Vet’s Wheelchairs Will Roll on Israeli Tech,” Israel21c, September 13, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/us-vets-wheelchairs-will-roll-on-israeli-tech/
Jared Malsin, “Israel Reopens Cairo Embassy 4 Years After Protesters’ Seige,” New York Times, September 9, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/world/middleeast/israel-reopens-cairo-embassy-4-years-after-protesters-siege.html?_r=0
Kobi Michael and Oded Eran, “Escalation in Jerusalem: Beyond Stabilization Efforts,” INSS Insight, September 20, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/uploadImages/systemFiles/No.%20749%20-%20Kobi%20and%20Oded%20for%20web221797701.pdf
Mazal Mualem, “Israeli Culture Minister Decries Western Culture,” Al-Monitor, September 28, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/israel-mizrahi-western-education-women-social-mobility.html
Arad Nir, “What’s in Store for the Future of Turkish-Israeli Relations?” Al-Monitor, September 29, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/israel-turkey-reconciliation-elections-marmara-netanyahu.html
Daniel Pipes, “Tiny Silver Lining in the Otherwise Bad Iran Deal,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 9, 2015, http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thinktank/One-tiny-silver-lining-in-otherwise-bad-Iran-deal.html
Josh Rogin, “Russia’s Syrian Air Base Has U.S. Scrambling for a Plan,” Bloomberg, September 10, 2015, http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-10/russia-s-syrian-air-base-has-u-s-scrambling-for-a-plan
Grant Rumley, “The Palestinians Are Facing a Serious Generational Crisis,” Foundation for Defense of Democracy, September 28, 2015, http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/grant-rumley-the-palestinians-are-facing-a-serious-generational-crisis/
Natan Sachs, “Dilemmas of the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse,” Brookings, September 17, 2015, http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/09/17-israeli-palestinian-impasse-dilemmas-sachs
Jonathan Schanzer, “Treasury and State Department Target Islamic State Financiers,” Pundicity, September 29, 2015, http://schanzer.pundicity.com/17898/treasury-and-state-department-target-islamic
Alex Shams, “The Yemeni Sisters Whose Arabic Song has Taken Israel by Storm,” The Wire, January 10, 2015, http://thewire.in/2015/10/01/the-yemeni-sisters-whose-arabic-song-has-taken-israel-by-storm-12012/
Tzipi Shmilovitz, “We’re Fighting for Our Existence There: Outgoing Israel UN Ambassador Ron Proser Recalls Challenging Years at His Post,” Ynet Magazine, September 11, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4699866,00.html
Rebecca Shimoni Stoil, “Israel a Popular Target of Critique in UN Debate,” Times of Israel, Septmeber 30, 2015, http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-a-popular-target-for-critique-in-un-debate/
The Tower Staff, “Palestinian Authority Should Help Refugees by Returning Embezzled Aid Money,” The Tower, September, 28, 2015, http://www.thetower.org/2372-tablet-palestinian-authority-should-help-refugees-by-returning-embezzled-aid-money/
Sarah Yerkes, “Israeli-Palestinian Futures: Don’t Forget About the People,” Brookings, September 28, 2015, http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/09/28-israeli-palestinian-mistrust-yerkes
Naomi Zeveloff, “Tel Aviv Train is Coming Despite Fears of Rats and Carmageddon,” Forward, August 30, 2015, http://forward.com/news/israel/319511/tel-aviv-breaks-ground-on-light-rail-line/?attribution=articles-article-listing-3-headline

#30 Contemporary Readings and Analyses, August 2015
September 3, 2015Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Ephraim Asculai, “The Unbelievable Side Agreements with Iran,” The Jerusalem Post, August 24, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-unbelievable-side-agreements-with-Iran-413137
Julie Bort, “The Startup Scene in Israel is Going Bonkers, and the Chinese Are Swooping In,” Business Insider, August 13, 2015, http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-all-over-israel-startups-2015-8
Steven A. Cook, “The Real Reason Turkey is Fighting ISIL,” Politico Magazine, August 21, 2015, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/turkey-fighting-isil-isis-erdogan-long-game-chess-121603
Udi Dekel and Omer Einav, “Revising the National Security Concept: The Need for a Strategy of Multidisciplinary Impact,” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 16, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10318
Jackson Diehl, “Why Iran will not give up Syria,” The Washington Post, August 2, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-iran-wont-give-up-syria/2015/08/02/b9269fa2-360c-11e5-9d0f-7865a67390ee_story.html
Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer, “The Iran Deal Will Unchain Top Ayatollah’s Terror Slush Fund,” The New York Post, August 9, 2015, http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/dubowitz-mark-the-iran-deal-will-unchain-top-ayatollahs-terror-slush-fund/#sthash.d7zynz73.dpuf
Michael Eisenstadt, “How the Iran Deal Could Complicate US Efforts to Prevent Nuclear Breakout,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 31, 2015, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-the-iran-deal-could-complicate-u.s.-efforts-to-prevent-a-nuclear-breako
Michael Eisenstadt, Simon Henderson, Michael Knights, Matthew Levitt and Andrew Tabler, “The Regional Impact of Additional Iranian Money,” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 28, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-regional-impact-of-additional-iranian-money
Oded Eran, “When will the US Sanctions on Iran be Lifted and by Whom,” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 20, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10367
Shmuel Even, “IDF Strategy and the Responsibility of the Political Leadership,” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 19, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10366
David Francis, “The Chosen One,” Foreign Policy Magazine, August 28, 2015, http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/28/the-chosen-one-adam-szubin-israel-iran-nuclear-deal-obama/
Michael Gerson,”How the nuclear deal will fund Iran’s imperialism,” Washington Post, August 3, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-deal-to-fund-iranian-imperialism/2015/08/03/a0ab57bc-3a10-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html
Buzzy Gordon, “Noa Shines Under Jerusalem’s Full Moon,” YNet Magazine, August 14, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4690142,00.html
Philip Gordon, “King Salman Comes to Washington,” Politico Magazine, September 1, 2015, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/mag-saudi-gordon-213101
Alexander H. Joffe, “Why Empower Iran?” The Times of Israel, August 3, 2015, http://www.meforum.org/5417/why-empower-iran
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamini, “Assessing U.S. and Coalition Strategy for Syria and the Islamic State, Rubin Center, August 12, 2015, http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/08/assessing-u-s-and-coalition-strategy-for-syria-and-the-islamic-state/
Saeed Kamali Dehghan, “Barenboim to Take Berlin Orchestra to Iran Despite Protests from Israel,” The Guardian, August 27, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/27/daniel-barenboim-berlin-orchestra-iran-israel-protests
Herb Keinon, “Matisyahu: Anti-Semitism at Spanish Festival Was Something I Never Experienced Before,” Jerusalem Post, August 30,2015, http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Matisyahu-Anti-Semitism-at-Spanish-reggae-festival-was-something-I-never-experienced-before-413733
Mehdi Khaliji, “Iran’s Shifting Nuclear Narratives,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 12, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-shifting-nuclear-narratives
Abigail Klein Leichman, “$75 Million Autism Center to Open in Jerusalem,” Israel21c, August 15, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/75-million-autism-center-to-open-in-jerusalem/
Eric Knecht, “INTERVIEW—Egypt Says Zohar Gas Find Will Not Undermine Talks on Imports from Israel,” Reuters, September 2, 2015, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/02/egypt-energy-israel-idUKL4N11834820150902
Yossi Kuperwasser and Alan Baker, “Vital Points on the Iran Deal: Major Flaws and Positive Elements,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 27, 2015, http://jcpa.org/article/vital-points-on-the-iran-deal-major-flaws-and-positive-elements/
Emily Landau and Shimon Stein, “Israel and the Iran Nuclear Deal: Chronicle of a Failure Foretold?” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 18, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10334
Madison Margolin, “A-Wa’s Unlikely Journey from Rural Israel to Global Fame,” Forward, August 6, 2015, http://forward.com/culture/music/318147/a-wa-a-yemenite-israeli-pop-trio-gains-popularity-around-the-world/
Jay Michaelson, “Jerusalem Pride Organizer: ‘It was Horrible,”’ Forward, August 3, 2015, http://forward.com/news/israel/318370/jerusalem-pride-organizer-it-was-horrible/
Mazal Mualem, “Israeli Minister Pushes for Improved Gender Equality,” Al-Monitor, August 27, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/israel-social-equality-gamliel-interview-arab-women-likud.html
Barak Obama, “The Iran Nuclear Deal at American University,” August 5, 2015, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/05/remarks-president-iran-nuclear-deal
Wendy Parker, “Israeli Film Director Visiting Emory University as Artist in Residence,” 90.1 WABE, August 28, 2015, http://wabe.org/post/israeli-film-director-visiting-emory-artist-residence
George Perkovich, Mark Hibbs, James M Action, and Toby Dalton, “Parsing the Ian Deal,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 6, 2015, http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/08/06/parsing-iran-deal/iec5
Jenna Perlman, “Birthright Excel Gives Students a Taste of Israeli Hi-Tech,” Jerusalem Post, August 5, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Birthright-Excel-gives-students-a-taste-of-Israeli-hi-tech-411157
Samadar Perry, “An Egyptian Voice in Tel Aviv,” YNet Magazine, August, 29, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4695553,00.html
Daniel Pipes, “What If Tehran Turns Down the Nuclear Deal?” The Washington Times, August 20, 2015, http://www.meforum.org/5446/what-if-iran-turns-down-jcpoa
Shira Rubin, “The New Face of Jewish Terror,” Foreign Policy Magazine, August 20, 2015, http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/20/the-new-face-of-jewish-terror-hilltop-settlers-price-tag-attacks-israel/
Viva Sarah Press, “Flutist Hadar Noiberg Jazzes up New York,” Israel21c, August 20, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/flutist-hadar-noiberg-jazzes-up-new-york/
Robert Satloff, “There is a Path to a Better Deal with Iran,” The Atlantic, August 13, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/there-is-a-path-to-a-better-deal-with-iran
Uri Savir, “Dangers of International Fatigue on Israel-Palestine Issue,” Al-Monitor, August 30, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/israel-two-state-solution-palestine-international-community.html
Jonathan Schanzer, “The Iran Nuclear Deal Means War Between Israel and Hezbollah,”
Huffington Post, August 21, 2015, http://schanzer.pundicity.com/17749/the-iran-nuclear-deal-means-war-between-israel
Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, “The Nuclear Deal: No Pause in Iran’s Vow to Destroy Israel,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 16, 2015, http://jcpa.org/article/nuclear-deal-irans-vow-destroy-israel/
Gunter Seufert, “On the Situation of the Kurdish Question,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, August 2015, http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C38_srt.pdf
Gabi Siboni, “’The IDF Strategy:’ A Focused Action Approach,” The Institute for National Security Studies, August 27, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10446
Michael Singh, “Implications of the JCPOA for US Policy in the Middle East,” Testimony submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, August 5, 2015, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/testimony/SinghTestimony20150805-SenateForeignRelations-v3.pdf
Lee Smith, “With the Iran Deal Under Review, the Obama Administration Tries to Bait Three Jewish Senators,” The Tablet, August 3, 2015, http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/192578/with-iran-deal-under-review-the-obama-administration-tries-to-bait-three-jewish-senators
Ephraim Sneh, “Hoping to Counter Iran, Former Israeli Defense Official Calls on Riyadh to Add ‘Security Annex’ to Arab Peace Initiative,” Al-Monitor, August 25, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/arab-peace-initiative-security-annex-saudi-arabia.html
Jonathan Spyer, “The Tehran Formula,” Rubin Center, August 3, 2015, http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/08/the-teheran-formula/
Israel21c Staff, “Arab-Israeli Medic Delivers Baby of Terror Victims,” Israel21c, August 12, 2015, http://www.israel21c.org/arab-israeli-medic-delivers-baby-of-terror-victims/
Kenneth W. Stein, “Stopping an Ominous Iran,” The Hill-Congress Blog, August 31, 2015, http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/252045-stopping-an-ominous-iran
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, “Backbone of the Syrian Revolt, Inclusion of Rural Sunnis Key for International Efforts to End Conflict,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, August 2015, http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C39_ows.pdf
Amos Yadlin, “Israel and the United States: Time for a Parallel Agreement,” August 30, 2015, The Institute for National Security Studies, August 30, 2015, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10477
Naomi Zeveloff, “Revisiting the Gaza Withdrawal, 10 Years Later,” Forward, August 3, 2015, http://forward.com/news/israel/318228/gaza-withdrawal-10-years-later/
Tamara Zieve, “Arabs Who Love Israel? This Film Producer Wants the World to Hear Their Stories,” Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Arabs-who-love-Israel-They-exist-and-this-film-producer-wants-the-world-to-hear-their-stories-414978

#29 Contemporary Readings and Analyses, July 2015
August 4, 2015Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Elliott Abrams, Itamar Rabinovich, and Amos Yadlin, “Israel’s Northern Border and the Chaos in Syria: A Symposium.” Summer 2015. https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/1667/israels-northern-border-and-the-chaos-in-syria-a-symposium/
Asi Aivas, “The Angelecy prepare to go global.” Israel21c. July 16, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/the-angelcy-prepare-to-go-global/
Raphael Ahren, “Israel: Inspection clauses in deal ‘worse than worthless,’ actually help Iran.” Times of Israel. July 15, 2015. http://www.timesofisrael.com/steinitz-iran-deal-wouldve-been-better-without-inspections-regime/
Yuval Avivi, “Israel’s community gardens bloom.” Al-Monitor. July 28, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/07/israel-tel-aviv-urban-farming-organic-vegetables-community.html
Laurie Blank, “What the UN report on Gaza left out.” The Hill. July 7, 2016. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/247041-what-the-un-report-on-gaza-left-out
Itay Blumenthal and Eti Abramov, “Destruction of Beit El building amid continued riots.” YNet News. July 29, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4684756,00.html
Gary C. Cambill, “Beware the Hyde-and-Jekyll Defense of the Iran Nuclear Agreement.” Foreign Policy Research Institute. July 2015. http://www.fpri.org/articles/2015/07/beware-hyde-and-jekyll-defense-iran-nuclear-agreement
Ben Caspit, “Netanyahu, Bennett square off over settlers.” Al-Monitor. July 29, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/07/jerusalem-city-of-daviv-archeology-finding-roman-empire.html
Jas Chana, “Omri Casspi, Fellow NBA Players are ‘Rockstars’ in Israel.” Tablet. July 31, 2015. http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/192610/omri-casspi-fellow-nba-players-are-rockstars-in-israel
Patrick Clawson, “How Iran’s Economic Gain from a Nuclear Deal Might Affect its Foreign Policy.” Policywatch 2452. Washington Institute for Near East Policy. July 10, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-irans-economic-gain-from-a-nuclear-deal-might-affect-its-foreign-policy
Moshe Cohen, “Bennett, Beit El Protestors Face Off At Meeting.” Israel National News. July 20, 2015. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/198379#.Vb-mN5NVhBc
Barry Davis, “The Israel Museum hosts a stellar musical roster in the Art Garden.” The Jerusalem Post. July 21, 2015. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Music-Brozas-Beduin-boogie-409054
Udi Dekel and Kobi Michael, “The ‘Double Game’ in the Palestinian Arena: A Platform for Increased Terrorism.” INSS Insight No. 720. July 12, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10015
Omri Efraim, “Fat camp or boot camp? Border police unit fights off 565 kilograms.” YNet News. July 28, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4684552,00.html
Meir Elran and Gabi Siboni, “Establishing an IDF Cyber Command.” INSS Insight No. 719. July 8, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10007
Oded Eran, “The United States and the Nuclear Deal with Iran.” INSS Insight No. 721. July 16, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10086
Yitzhak Gal, “The Palestinian Economy, Gaza Reconstruction, and Israel: Crises and Possibilities.” Iqtisadi. The Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University. July 29, 2015. http://www.dayan.org/iqtisadi-vol-5-no-7-july-29-2015
Reuel Marc Gerecht, “How Will We Know?” The Weekly Standard. July 17, 2015. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/senior-fellow-how-will-we-know/
Yoel Guzansky, “Saudi Arabia and the Nuclear Agreement with Iran.” INSS Insight No. 723. July 22, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10116
Boris Havel, “Hajj Amin Husseini’s Anti-Semitic Legacy.” Middle East Quarterly. Summer 2015, vol 22, no. 3. http://www.meforum.org/5318/hajj-amin-antisemitism
Michael Herzog, “Contextualizing Israeli Concerns about the Iran Nuclear Deal.” Policy Notes. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. No. 26. June 2015. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyNote26_Herzog.pdf
David Horowitz, “16 reasons nuke deal is an Iranian victory and a Western catastrophe.” Times of Israel. July 14, 2015. http://www.timesofisrael.com/16-reasons-nuke-deal-is-an-iranian-victory-and-a-western-catastrophe/
Israel21c Staff, “Smarter phones overcome physical challenges (audio).” Israel21c. July 28, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/smarter-phones-overcome-physical-challenges-audio/
Former Amb. James F. Jeffrey, “How to assess the Iran deal and what to do about it?” The Hill. July 14, 2015. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/defense/247844-assessing-the-iran-agreement-and-what-to-do-about-it
Charles Krauthammer, “With Iran deal, Obama makes bad history.” The Washington Post. July 29, 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/with-iran-deal-obama-makes-bad-history/2015/07/29/642fdc2a-3553-11e5-adf6-7227f3b7b338_story.html
Yair Lapid, “Iran Deal: To the Liars Go to the Spoils.” Times of Israel. July 13, 2015. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/iran-deal-to-the-liars-go-the-spoils/
Yair Lapid, “We are at war.” The Times of Israel. July 31, 2015. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-are-at-war/#.Vbtzc_olU0I.facebook
Joseph I. Lieberman, “Congress Deserves a Vote on Iran.” The Wall Street Journal. March 17, 2015. http://www.wsj.com/articles/joseph-i-lieberman-congress-deserves-a-vote-on-iran-1426633380
Oren Liebermann, “Israel’s tech whiz-kids-in-training? Ultra-Orthodox Jews.” CNN. July 8, 2015. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/08/world/israel-ultra-orthodox-jews-high-tech/index.html
Michael Makovsky, “On the Consequences of the Deal.” The Weekly Standard. July 27, 2015. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/consequences-deal_992173.html?nopager=1
Michael Makovsky and William Kristol, “Blaming Israel First.” The Weekly Standard. August 10, 2015. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/blaming-israel-first_1001582.html
David Makovsky and Matthew Levitt, “Keeping Iran’s Feet to the Fire.” Foreign Policy. July 14, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/keeping-irans-feet-to-the-fire
Kobi Michael, “The Non-Nuclear Challenges of the Nuclear Agreement with Iran.” INSS Insight No. 724. July 27, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10161
Vali Nasr, “Why did Iran sign on to a deal that will weaken its regional hold?” The Washington Post. July 31, 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-did-iran-sign-on-to-a-deal-that-will-weaken-its-regional-hold/2015/07/31/a9f48494-354a-11e5-8e66-07b4603ec92a_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1
Emanuele Ottolenghi and Saeed Ghasseminejad, “The Nuclear Deal’s Impact on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.” FDD Policy Brief. July 17, 2015. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/emanuele-ottolenghi-the-nuclear-deals-impact-on-irans-revolutionary-guards/
Smadar Perry, “Iran deal will save Assad.” Ynet News. July 19, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4681483,00.html
David Pollock, “New Poll Shows Most Palestinians for Practical Progress, Tactical Compromises with Israel.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy. July 23, 2015.
Viva Sarah Press, “Israeli-Iranian camaraderie triumphs at Special Olympics.” Israel21c. August 2, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/israeli-iranian-camaraderie-triumphs-at-special-olympics/
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, “Opinion: Thwarting Iran’s Regional Influence.” Asharq Al-Awsat. July 19, 2015. http://www.aawsat.net/2015/07/article55344431/opinion-thwarting-irans-regional-influence
Dennis Ross, “Iran Will Cheat. Then What?” Time. July 15, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/iran-will-cheat.-then-what
Robert Satloff, “What is Really Wrong with the Iran Nuclear Deal.” New York Daily News. July 14, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/whats-really-wrong-with-the-iran-nuclear-deal
Jonathan Schanzer, “Ankara Alone: Turkey’s Disastrous Foreign Policy.” Weekly Standard. June 3, 2015. http://schanzer.pundicity.com/16675/ankara-alone-turkey-disastrous-foreign-policy
Jonathan Schanzer and Mark Dubowitz. “It Just Got Easier for Iran to Fund Terrorism.”
Foreign Policy. July 17, 2015. http://schanzer.pundicity.com/17588/it-just-got-easier-for-iran-to-fund-terrorism
Yoram Schweitzer and Zvi Magen, “The Islamic State, the Caucasus, and the Russian Response.” INSS Insight No. 725. July 28, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10211
Michael Singh, “How Will the Iran Nuclear Deal Affect Broader U.S. Strategy?” Wall Street Journal. July 15, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-will-the-iran-nuclear-deal-affect-broader-u.s.-strategy
Jonathon Spyer, “Sunni Arabs: Iran Deal Opens the ‘Gates of Evil.’” The Jerusalem Post. July 18, 2015. http://www.meforum.org/5390/iran-gates-of-evil
Amos Yadlin, “Following the Problematic Nuclear Agreement: Scenarios and Policy Recommendations.” INSS Insight No. 722. July 20, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10100

#28 Contemporary Readings and Analyses, June 2015
July 6, 2015Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Gaar Adams, “Sick Beats and Sykes-Picot.” Foreign Policy. June 5, 2015. http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/05/sick-beats-and-sykes-picot-a-wa-band-yemen-israel-middle-east-music/
Owen Alterman, “The Dead End of Snapback Sanctions: How the P5+1 Proposal Blocks Meaningful Re-imposition of Sanctions on Iran.” INSS Insight No. 713. June 25, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9940
Burak Bekdil, “Post-Election Turkey: Now What?” The Middle East Forum. June 11, 2015. http://www.meforum.org/5307/post-election-turkey
Burak Bekdil, “Turkey and Israel: Starting Over?” The Gatestone Institute. June 28, 2015. http://www.meforum.org/5350/turkey-israel
Daniel Bernstein, “Amsterdam abandons sister city agreement with Tel Aviv.” The Times of Israel. June 25, 2015. http://www.timesofisrael.com/amsterdam-drops-sister-city-agreement-with-tel-aviv/
Ben Caspit, “Marianne flotilla reflects Turkey’s changed Israel stance.” Al-Monitor. June 29, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/06/israel-gaza-flotilla-hamas-turkey-saudi-arabia-egypt-region.html
Maya Cohen and Daniel Siryoti, “Culture minister: Coexistence does not stop at Tel Aviv border.” Israel Hayom. June 11, 2015. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=26113
Robert Einhorn, “A rare bipartisan consensus on the Iran nuclear negotiations.” Brookings. June 26, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/06/26-iran-nuclear-negotiations-bipartisan-consensus-einhorn
Khaled Elgindy, “Palestinian political crisis deepens with collapse of unity government.” Aljazeera America. June 19, 2015. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/19/palestinian-political-crisis-deepens-with-collapse-of-unity-government.html
Meir Elran and Alex Altshuler, “What Can Be Learned from the National Home Front Exercise?” INSS Insight No. 716. July 1, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9971
William A. Galston, “Yair Lapid on Israel’s regional challenges: Thinking beyond the current government.” Brookings. June 9, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/06/09-lapid-multilateral-talks-iran-bds-peace-coalition
Globes Staff, “Israel govt sets up Technology and Innovation Authority.” Globes. June 22, 2015. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-govt-sets-up-technology-and-innovation-authority-1001047072
Yossi Klein Halevi, “Israeli Rock Music’s Spiritual New Sound.” Wall Street Journal. June 12, 2015. http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-rock-musics-spiritual-new-sound-1434122493
Olli Heinonen and Simon Henderson, “How to Make Sure Iran’s One-Year Nuclear Breakout Time Does Not Shrink.” Washington Institute. Policywatch 2436. June 17, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/how-to-make-sure-irans-one-year-nuclear-breakout-time-does-not-shrink
Orr Hirschauge, “Israeli Army Builds a Desert Outpost—Tech Firms Follow.” The Wall Street Journal. http://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-army-builds-a-desert-outposttech-firms-follow-1433525715
I24 News Staff, “’Politics of Dancing’: DJ Can Dyk album faces Arab ban.” i24 News. July 1, 2015. http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/culture/76779-150701-politics-of-dancing-dj-van-dyk-album-faces-arab-ban
Martin Indyk, “U.S. Policy in the Middle East after a Nuclear Deal with Iran.” Testimony submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing. June 3, 2015. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/060315_Indyk_Testimony.pdf
Ambassador James F. Jeffrey, “Implications of the Iran Nuclear Agreement for U.S. Policy in the Middle East.” The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Testimony submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. June 3, 2015. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/060315_Jeffrey_Testimony.pdf
Roi Kais, “Terror in the Sinai: Ongoing battles, police under siege, at least 100 dead,” YNetNews, July 1, 2015, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4674897,00.html
Abigail Klein Leichman, “12 of the coolest new apps from Israel.” Israel21c. June 11, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/12-of-the-coolest-new-apps-from-israel/
Gallia Lindenstrauss and Ceyhun Çiçekçi, “After the Turkish Parliamentary Elections: Big Hopes, with Remaining Worries.“ INSS Insight. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9888
Guy Lurie, “Appointing Arab Judges to the Courts in Israel.” The Israel Democracy Institute. June 14, 2015. http://en.idi.org.il/analysis/articles/appointing-arab-judges-to-the-courts-in-israel/
David Makovsky and Raquel Saxe, “BDS’s Useless Politics of Confrontation.” Times of Israel. May 22, 2015. http://www.timesofisrael.com/bdss-useless-politics-of-confrontation/
Lauren Mellinger, “New politics of religion and gender in Israel.” Brookings. June 29, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/06/29-israel-gender-politics-religion
Kobi Michael, “Gaza Strip Reconstruction: Navigating the Strategic Dilemmas.” INSS Insight No. 706. June 8, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9754
Gwen Moran, “Meet the female alums of the Israeli Army’s elite tech training school.” Fortune. June 25, 2015. http://fortune.com/2015/06/25/women-israeli-army-tech-training/
Mazal Mualem, “Former IDF lawyer finds UN report on Gaza war ‘relatively balanced.’” Al-Monitor. June 23, 2015. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/06/sharvit-baruch-un-commission-gaza-war-report-goldstone.html
Michael E. O’Hanlon, “Deconstructing Syria: A new strategy for America’s most hopeless war.” Brookings. June 30, 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/06/30-deconstructing-syria-ohanlon
Daniel Pipes, “Americans Battle the Arab-Israeli Conflict.” Middle East Quarterly. Spring 2015. http://www.meforum.org/5079/americans-battle-the-arab-israeli-conflict
John Podhoretz, “If He Only Had a Heart,” [On Michael Oren’s Book, Ally]. Commentary. July 1, 2015. Commentary. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/if-he-only-had-a-heart/
The Rand Corporation, “The Costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” June 2015. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR740.html
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, “The Russians are coming to Saudi Arabia.” Al Sharq al-Awsat. June 21, 2015. http://www.aawsat.net/2015/06/article55344047/opinion-the-russians-are-coming-to-saudi-arabia
Paul Rivlin, “Middle East Uncertainty and Oil Price Stability.” Iqtisadi. The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. vol 5 no 6. June 25, 2015. http://dayan.org/iqtisadi-middle-east-uncertainty-and-oil-price-stability-june-2015
Uri Savir, “Israel, Hamas negotiate, but truce still far off.” Al-Monitor, June 30, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/06/israel-hamas-truce-negotiations-egypt-netanyahu.html
David Schenker and Sarah Feuer, “Beyond Islamists and Autocrats, Prospects for Political Reform Post Arab Spring.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy. June 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/beyond-islamists-and-autocrats-prospects-for-political-reform-post-arab-spr
Chemi Shalev, West of Eden.” Momentous times for U.S. and Obama should make Israelis burn with envy.” Haaretz. Jun. 28, 2015. http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/.premium-1.663290
David Shamah, “Amazon to expand its operations in Israel.” The Times of Israel. July 1, 2015. http://www.timesofisrael.com/amazon-to-expand-its-operations-in-israel/
Guido Steinberg, “Jihadism in Africa Local Cause, Regional Expansion, International Alliances.” German Institute for International and Security Affairs. June 2015. http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publications/swp-research-papers/swp-research-paper-detail/article/jihadismus_in_afrika.html
Bruce Thornton, “The Postcolonial Rot Spreads Beyond Middle East Studies.” FrontPage Magazine. June 15, 2015. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/bruce-thornton/the-postcolonial-rot-spreads-beyond-middle-east-studies/
The Washington Institute, “Public Statement on US Policy Toward the Iran Nuclear Negotiations.” June 24, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/public-statement-on-u.s.-policy-toward-the-iran-nuclear-negotiations
Isabelle Werenfels, “Going ‘Glocal’: Jihadism in Algeria and Tunisia.” German Institute for International and Security Affairs. June 2015. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2015_RP05_sbg_web.pdf#page=51
YNetNews Staff, “Muslims, Jews hold joint iftar meals for Ramadan fast.” YNetNews. June 30, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4674173,00.html
YNetNews Staff, “Former Auschwitz accountant asks God for forgiveness at trial.” YNetNews. July 1, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4675182,00.html

#27 Contemporary Readings and Analyses, May 2015
June 3, 2015Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University and Center for Israel Education
kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu
Adva Center, Israel A Social Report 2014 – Israel’s Heart is in Western Europe, Her Feet are in the Eastern and Southern Fringes, “ April 28, 2015, http://www.adva.org/default.asp?pageid=1002&itmid=845
AFP, “Gazans Reach beyond Blockade through Start-Up.” May 22, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4659965,00.html.
AFP, “Israel Pleased to Have Resolved FIFA Expulsion Threat.” Middle East Institute. http://www.mei.edu/content/news/israel-pleased-have-resolved-fifa-expulsion-threat.
Ali Adeeb Alnaemi, “Taking Advantage of the Fall of Ramadi.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 20, 2015.http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/taking-advantage-of-the-fall-of-ramadi.
Muriel Asseburg, “Fifty Years of German-Israeli Relations Whither the Miracle of Reconciliation,” German Institute for International Affairs, Berlin, April 2015. http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C27_ass.pdf
Adam Balcer, “Between Appeasement and Rivalry: Turkey and Russia and their Neighborhoods,” Insituto Affari Internaionali, May 2015, http://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/gte_c_22.pdf
BESA Center, “Col. Richard Kemp: The Amoral Revolution in Western Values, and Its Impact on Israel.” BESA Center, May 20, 2015. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/col-richard-kemp-the-amoral-revolution-in-western-values-and-its-impact-on-israel/.
Yitzhak Benhorin, “Israeli Drought Aid Swings into Action in California.” Ynet News, May 31, 2015.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4663131,00.html.
Dr. Louis Rene Beres, “Converging Enemy Threats to Israel.” BESA Center, May 28, 2015. http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/converging-enemy-threats-to-israel/.
Benedetta Berti, “Hamas’s Islamic State Woes,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 28, 2015,http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/2015/05/28/hamas-s-islamic-state-woes/i94u
Nicky Blackburn, “Dip into Worldwide Hummus Holiday Today.” Israel 21c, May 13, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/dip-into-worldwide-hummus-holiday-today/.
Itay Blumenthal, “Ethiopians Protest Family’s Aliyah Conditions.” Ynet News, May 27, 2015.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4662178,00.html.
Brookings Institution, “The 2016 U.S. Elections: Impact on the Middle East.” May 27, 2015.http://www.brookings.edu/events/2015/05/27-us-elections-impact-middle-east.
Ronak D. Desai, “Coming Out of the Closet: India-Israel Ties Under Narenda Modi,” Foreign Policy, May 7, 2015.http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/07/coming-out-of-the-closet-india-israel-ties-under-narendra-modi/
Zack Gold, “Sinai Tribes: Between the Egyptian State and the Islamic State.” INSS Insight, May 18, 2015.http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9533.
Jeffrey Goldberg, “President Barack Obama Interview,” The Atlantic, May 2015,http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/05/obama-interview-iran-isis-israel/393782/#ISIS
Mark Heller, “Between Operation Decisive Storm and an Iranian Nuclear Deal: The Limits of Saudi-Israeli Convergence,” INSS Insight, May 10, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9457
Insituto Affari Internaionali, “Turkey and Iran — Three Views,” May 13, 2015, http://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/gte-question-month-may-2015
Roi Kais, “Nasrallah Calls on Region to Fight ISIS: They Are No Stronger than Israel,” Ynet News, May 24, 2015. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4660741,00.html.
Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, “Anti-Semitism Worldwide 2014,” April 2015.http://kantorcenter.tau.ac.il/sites/default/files/Doch2014%20%28130415%29_0.pdf
Nikolay Kozhanov, “Understanding the Revitalization of Russian-Iranian Relations,” Carnegie Moscow Center, May 5, 2015,http://carnegie.ru/2015/05/05/understanding-revitalization-of-russian-iranian-relations/i86n
Omer Kreisel, “China’s Infatuation with Israeli Technology Deepens.” Globes, May 31, 2015. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-chinas-infatuation-for-israeli-technology-deepens-1001040719.
Abigail Klein Leichman, “12 Top Ad-Tech Companies in Israel.” Israel 21c, May 25, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/12-top-ad-tech-companies-in-israel/.
Abigail Klein Leichman, “Technion to Help Build Desal Plant in Jordan.” Israel 21c, June 1, 2015.http://www.israel21c.org/news/technion-to-help-build-desal-plant-in-jordan/.
David Makovsky, “Netanyahu Loses Leverage in Forming New Government.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 8, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/netanyahu-loses-leverage-in-forming-new-government.
David Makovsky and Raquel Saxe, “BDS’s Useless Politics of Confrontation.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 22, 2015. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/bdss-useless-politics-of-confrontation.
Suzanne Maloney, “Spies, Lies, and Iran: An American Reporter Goes on Trial for Espionage in Tehran.” Brookings, May 27, 2015.http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/05/27-iran-american-reporter-espionage-trial-rezaian-nuclear.
Hassan Mneimneh, “Reforming Religious Discourse in Egypt.” Middle East Institute, May 14, 2015.http://www.mei.edu/content/at/reforming-religious-discourse-egypt.
Mazal Mualem, “Israelis Use Technology to Battle Government Corruption” Al-Monitor, May 26, 2015.http://www.almonitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/05/israel-corruption-affairs-technology-eitan-interview.html.
Jessica Noll and Stephan Roll. “From Yemen War to Joint Army Egyptian- Saudi Differences over Arab Military Cooperation,” German Institute for International and Security Affairs, May 2015, http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C31_noj_rll.pdf
Siobhan O’Grady, “The New Face of Israel’s Hard Right, “Foreign Policy, May 7, 2015. http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/07/the-new-face-of-israel-hard-right-netanyahu-ayelet-shaked/
Oweis, Khaled Yacoub, “Sieges and Ceasefires in Syria’s Civil War,” German Institute for International Affairs, Berlin. May 2015,http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/comments/2015C26_ows.pdf
Orit Perlov and Udi Dekel, “Syria: Is a Substantive Change in the Balance of Power Emerging?” INSS Insight, May 29, 2015.http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9595.
Viva Sarah Press, “Professors Holding Babies Go Viral.” Israel 21c, May 14, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/culture/professors-holding-babies-go-viral/.
David Raphael, “Musing About Israel on Campus,” The Amherst Court Jester, May 26, 2015, http://draphael-emuse.blogspot.com/2015/05/musing-about-israel-on-campus.html
David Rothkopf, “Other People’s Armies [ Obama, the Gulf states military[, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, [Originally published in Foreign Policy] May 19, 2015, http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/05/19/other-people-s-armies/i8tq
Yazid Sayigh, “Where Next in Syria?” republished by the Carnegie Endowment for Middle East Peace, Middle East Center, April 30, 2015, http://carnegie-mec.org/2015/04/30/where-next-in-syria/i7zi
Yoram Schweitzer, “Hamas and the Islamic State Organization: Toward a Head-On Collision in the Gaza Strip?” INSS Insight, May 17, 2015. http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9524.
David Shamah, “Hyundai Seeks Israeli Tech for Its ‘connected Cars.’” The Times of Israel, June 1, 2015.http://www.timesofisrael.com/hyundai-seeks-israeli-tech-for-its-connected-cars/.
Gabi Siboni and A. G., “Military Lessons for Hamas from Operation Protective Edge.” INSS Insight, May 21, 2015.http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9558.
Jonathan Spyer, “Hizballah Deepens Its Involvement in Syria,” Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2015,http://www.meforum.org/5271/hezbollah-lebanon-syria
The Tower Staff, “Israeli-Texan Team of Scientists Wins U.S.-Sponsored Water Technology Competition.” The Tower, May 27, 2015. http://www.thetower.org/2089-israeli-texan-team-of-scientists-wins-u-s-sponsored-water-technology-competition/.
Yedidia Z.Stern “The Haredi Draft: Snakes and Ladders,” IDI, April 29, 2015, http://en.idi.org.il/analysis/articles/the-haredi-draft-snakes-and-ladders/
Daniel Ben Tal, “Midburn – The Freedom to Be Different.” Israel 21c, May 31, 2015. http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/midburn-the-freedom-to-be-different/.
Eric Trager, “Egypt Two Years After Morsi.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 20, 2015.http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/egypt-two-years-after-morsi.
Alex Vatanka, “The Authoritarian Resurgence: Iran Abroad,” Middle East Institute, April 30, 2015,http://www.mei.edu/content/article/authoritarian-resurgence-iran-abroad
Ruth Wisse, “Anti-Semitism Goes to School, Anti-Semitism on American college campuses is rising—and worsening. Where does it come from, and can it be stopped?” Mosaic Magazine, May 4, 2015, http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2015/05/anti-semitism-goes-to-school/
Ephraim Yaar and Prof Tamar Hermann, Peace Index, Israel Democracy Institute, April 2015,http://en.idi.org.il/media/4041376/Peace_Index_April_2015-Eng.pdf
Amos Yadlin, and Yoel Guzansky, “The US and Gulf States Summit: What Next?” INSS Insight, May 20, 2015.http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=9546.
Maya Yaha, “Three Big Trends that will Shape the Arab World,” May 11, 2015, Carnegie Middle East Center, (first published in National Interest) http://carnegie-mec.org/publications/?fa=60036
Yossi Yehoshua, “IDF Planning Harsher Sanctions against Draft Dodgers and Defectors.” Ynet News, May 30, 2015.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4662908,00.html.