Egyptian President Sadat’s Knesset Address, November 1977CIE+
Sadat tells the Israeli people and world that he seeks a just and durable peace, which is not a separate peace, between Israel and Egypt. He equates statehood for the Palestinians as their right to return.
#150 Contemporary Readings, August 2025
Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, September 1, 2025 Oded Ailam, “Make An Offer They Can’t Refuse,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 27, 2025. Alchalta, “How Israel Loses the Narrative War, & the Moral Confusion…
U.S. Generational Divide Solidifies on Views Toward Israel, HamasCIE+
August 2025 polling data about American attitudes toward Israel and Hamas and about American political party partisanship toward Israel over the past decade.
Explainer: Balfour Declaration, November 1917
November 2, 1917 The Balfour Declaration was the Jewish charter that Herzl failed to obtain from the Ottoman sultan 20 years earlier. The terms were included in the preamble of the Palestine Mandate’s Articles in…
Discurso del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump sobre los ataques aéreos estadounidenses contra las instalaciones nucleares iraníes
El presidente Trump anuncia ataques aéreos estadounidenses de precisión contra las principales instalaciones nucleares de Irán, citando el odio de Irán hacia Estados Unidos durante cuatro décadas y el asesinato de estadounidenses y otros. Agradece a las fuerzas armadas estadounidenses, israelíes y al primer ministro Netanyahu, advirtiendo a Irán que busque la paz porque aún quedan más objetivos.
Israel State Archives — Hebrew and English SourcesCIE+
Israel State Archives — Selected Record Groups The Israel State Archives in Jerusalem are a treasure-trove for those seeking to understand Israel’s evolution. Successive archival groups reference Israel over the past century. More than the…
U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel Since the October 7 AttackCIE+
May 28, 2025 “U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023,” by Jeremy M. Sharp, specialist in Middle East affairs, Congressional Research Service Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S….
State Department Prevents Jewish Immigration, 1920s-1940sCIE+
“Wilbur Carr, the Imperial State Department, and Immigration: 1920-1945” © Copyright 2011 by Kathy Warnes. All Rights Reserved. kathywarneswriter.weebly.com, kathywarnes@gmail.com The State Department, as it evolved in the first four decades of the 20th century…
U.S. Backs Palestinian “Entity”; Syria Insists on PLO at Any Peace Conference, 1977CIE+
In two meetings at the White House, the Syrian foreign minister insists on the PLO’s presence at a regional peace conference and wins U.S. support for some kind of Palestinian “entity.”
August 2025 — Being Safe, Smart and Jewish on Campus: Resilience Prep for College StudentsCIE+
August 10, 2025 Updated August 11, 2025, with follow-up resources. CIE and partners including including Hillels of Georgia, American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s JTeen initiative, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Community…
Composite Statements in KKL/JNF Discussions About Lands to Purchase, 1926-1948CIE+
JNF meeting minutes and other statements show the strategic approach to Jewish land purchases throughout the British Mandate period.
Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud to President Truman, 1947
No document better reveals the hostility which most Arab leaders and Arab states had in 1947 for Zionism and for a possible Jewish state. The Saudi King notes “that US support for Zionists in Palestine is an unfriendly act directed against the Arabs.” The King’s views were totally supported by US State Department officials including Loy Henderson and George Kennan who advocated strongly against Truman’s support of a Jewish state.
המנדט הבריטי בפלשתינה (א”י) מטעם מועצת חבר הלאומים
(24 ביולי, 1922) Hurewitz, J.C. The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, A Documentary Record. 2nd, Revised and Enlarged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 305-308. Print. Vol. 2 of British-French Supremacy….
החלטת סן רמו – אפריל 25, 1920
1 באפריל 1920, ועידת סן רמו באיטליה קבעה את הגבולות של השטחים שבעלות הברית כבשו במלחמת העולם הראשונה: אלו כללו הגבולות לקיום הפוליטי של סוריה, לבנון, עיראק, ופלסטין כמדינות עצמאיות זמנית. ההחלטה המסכמת של הועידה…
#149 Contemporary Readings, July 2025
Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, July 31, 2025 Videos Ron Dermer, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, “Review of the Hamas-Israel War: Part 1” Ron Dermer, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, “Review of the Hamas-Israel War: Part 2”…
Yigal Allon, Lessons From the War of Independence, 1948CIE+
With crisp analysis, Haganah Commander Yigal Allon, later a Prime Minister of Israel attributes Israel’s successes to multiple factors including the absence of a centralized Arab command, limited Arab military training, underestimating the potential fighting capabilities of local Arabs, and Israel’s success in integrating its citizens into the war effort.
British Report Reveals “Separatist” Jewish Education System in Palestine, 1946CIE+
With the British spending local revenue on strategic needs — ports, roads and communication systems — scant funds were devoted to education in the Mandate. Already baked into diasporic habits, the Jewish community raced forward in educating its own in Palestine to inculcate penetrating attachments to Palestine as the Jewish national home. Arab youth literacy ran in place, with separatist education contributing mightily to communal divisions, as occurred simultaneously in the economic and geospatial spheres.
Os Acordos de Abraão – Estados Unidos, Emirados Árabes Unidos, Israel e Bahrein
15 de setembro de 2020 Almejados silenciosamente há uma década ou mais, os laços para uma relação de longa data entre Israel e os Estados do Golfo Pérsico tornaram-se públicos, fundamentados em interesses nacionais, com…
Moshe Shertok, 1943: “Palestine — A Jewish Commonwealth”CIE+
A key figure in the Jewish Agency’s political department, Moshe Shertok (later Sharett) argues for a Jewish commonwealth/state in Palestine. Pragmatically he realizes Arabs in Palestine oppose the Jewish presence, yet he rejects a potential binational Arab-Jewish state.
Explainer: Zionist/Israeli Music
April 15, 2025 Dr. Eli Sperling © Center for Israel Education, 2025 Israeli music offers a powerful lens through which we can understand the country’s cultural and political evolution, serving as both a unifying force…
Las relaciones de Irán con Israel y el pueblo judío desde la antigüedad hasta la actualidad
Junio de 2025 © Centro para la Educación sobre Israel 23-24 de junio de 2025: A petición del presidente Trump, Irán e Israel firman un alto el fuego en su Guerra de los Doce Días….
Trump, Netanyahu Share Vision for Iran and Gaza, July 2025CIE+
Before a White House dinner, President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk about Gaza, Iran, Syria and Middle East peace.
June 2025 Pew Research Center Surveys on IsraelCIE+
Divided at home and condemned abroad, public opinion of Israel sinks in response to war and domestic politics.
