Dr. Eli Sperling, April 15, 2025, for CIE © 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…
Benjamin Netanyahu makes his second White House visit of Donald Trump’s second term, but the discussion this time expands beyond Gaza and regional peace to include bilateral trade after a Trump announcement of new tariffs on Israeli goods.
The deal to mutually phase out tariffs on manufactured goods over a decade is the first free-trade agreement for the United States and the second for Israel, after one reached with a precursor to the European Union.
August 1, 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of Israel’s military operations through the Israel Defense Forces and the pre-state Haganah….
Stein, Kenneth, “Legal Protection and Circumvention of Rights for Cultivators in Mandatory Palestine,” in Joel S. Migdal, (Ed.) Palestinian Society and Politics, Princeton, (1980): 233-260. In the immediate wake of communal violence that plagued Palestine…
The report of a joint U.S.-British committee on the situation in Palestine and the fate of European Jewish refugees fails to offer solutions the British government will accept but does deliver vital data and insights on the situation between Arabs and Jews in the Land of Israel.
By Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, April 4, 2025 The Exile and the Homeland It may be said that the Jewish people’s entire cosmology (the origin and nature of the universe) from their birth as…
March 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of documents, books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of the Arab population of pre-state Palestine, Israel, the West Bank and the…
March 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of Zionism. Books Almog, Shmuel. Zionism and History: The Rise of a New Jewish…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Salwa Alinat-Abed, “Politics of Faith: Discourse and Practice Among Women of the Islamic Movement in Israel,” Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African…
March 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles to guide understanding of the historiography of Israel. Books ʻAdwan, Sami ʻAbd Ar-Razzaq, Dan Bar-On and Eyal J. Naveh. Side by Side: Parallel…
March 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books, online exhibits and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of the visual arts in Israel and during the New Yishuv. Books…
March 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of the New Yishuv during the period from the 1880s until the founding of…
March 12, 2025 By Ken Stein The Jewish growth in Mandatory Palestine in the period of the New Yishuv to establish a Jewish territory for a state had significantly developed by 1939. Arab leadership in…
August 1, 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books, articles and videos, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of antisemitism, particularly in connection with Zionism and Israel. Books Ackerman, Nathan…
As originally published in the British journal Fathom, CIE’s Scott Abramson explains the fallacy of presenting Islamophobia and antisemitism as equivalent.
CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of Zionist and Israeli immigration. Books Alterman, Rachelle. Planning in the Face of Crisis: Land Use,…
CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of Israeli literature and the evolution and adoption of the modern Hebrew language. Books Aberbach, David….
CIE has compiled the following list of books, articles and videos, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of the great world powers and their involvement in the Middle East. Books Alterman, Eric,…
CIE has compiled the following list of books, articles and interviews, including many available on our website, to guide understanding of the unfolding of the October 1973 Middle East war and its consequences. Books Adan, Avraham. On…
Kenneth W. Stein, “Evolving a Diplomatic Legacy From the October War: The US, Egyptian, and Israeli Triangle,” in Asaf Siniver (ed.), The October 1973 War Politics, Diplomacy, and Legacy, London: Hurst and Company, 2013. This…
A CIE-curated list of books and articles addressing the June 1967 Middle East war often known as the Six-Day War.
By Ken Stein and Scott Abramson, March 23, 2025 Zionist/Jewish Economic Development in Palestine Before 1948 Jewish physical growth in Mandatory Palestine in the period known as the New Yishuv was sufficient through land acquired…
The Parashah Hashavuah is the weekly portion of the Torah, the five books of Moses, read by Jews throughout the world each Sabbath and on specific holidays. Here you will find a d’var Torah (commentary)…
