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In taking personal responsibility for her governments mistakes of judgement that allowed Syrian and Arab armies to cause massive Israel deaths, destruction, injury and prisoners taken hostage,  in the October 1973 war, Prime Minister Golda Meir, though not required to do so, resigned her position. She was followed by Yitzhak Rabin who became Israel’s 6th […]

In an impassioned Knesset speech, Menachem Begin staunchly opposes accepting $1.5 billion in German reparations for Jewish deaths during WWII. No price, he believes, can be put on the lives lost.

After the British suggested partition of Palestine into two states in July 1937, Weizmann, among Zionists, was least opposed to a Jewish state in less than all of western Palestine.

The Israeli election on April 9 is just the first part of the process to decide who will lead the country. Our newest Israel on Board video explains what happens next and how the country’s government is formed.

European governments strongly backed Israel right after Oct. 7, but that support didn’t last as protesters took to the streets in cities such as London, Dublin and Madrid. Antisemitic incidents have increased, and Jews in many areas have retreated from public life and silenced themselves out of fear of the response. Hear from Joan Ryan, […]

For a century, Arab and Muslim attitudes toward Jews, Zionism, and Israel have evolved and lived together along a spectrum of outlooks that sees Jews, Zionism and Israel as threatening, disliked, barely tolerated, moderately accepted, recognized, collaborated with, and vigorously hated.

En la primera reunión del presidente Donald Trump en la Casa Blanca con un líder extranjero en su segundo mandato, dio la bienvenida al primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu , y anunció su intención de tomar posesión estadounidense de la Franja de Gaza, vaciándola de casi 2 millones de residentes palestinos y reurbanizándola en lo que denominó “la Riviera del Medio Oriente.”

Ken Stein, March 12, 2025 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 1938 acknowledged privately that a Jewish state was already in virtual existence in Palestine, though the year before in Bludan, Syria […]

Scott Abramson and Ken Stein In his famous 2004 essay “Between Right and Right,” Israel’s most celebrated novelist, Amos Oz, reflects on Israeli society, summing up his fellow citizens with this appraisal: “What we, Israeli Jews, really are [is] a bunch of half-hysterical refugees and survivors.” Half-hysterical or not, for many Jews, the Jewish state […]

Dal 1898 al 1947, il sionismo si è evoluto da un’ idea a una realtà concreta: l’istituzione effettiva dello stato ebraico, Israele. Quando Theodor Herzl scrisse Lo Stato Ebraico, agli ebrei mancava il potere politico e possedevano poche risorse finanziarie per convertire un’idea in una realtà territoriale. Per secoli gli ebrei avevano fermamente conservato la […]

Secondo i patti biblici , gli ebrei sono legati alla credenza in un D-o unico, un legame indissolubile alla Terra d’Israele. Dalla sua nascita, l’identità ebraica è legata agli impegni reciproci tra D-o e il popolo. Tra gli impegni vi è vivere nella terra di Israele, la promessa di D-o di fare di loro una […]

Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education David Ben-Basat, “Why a Palestinian State Is a Security Risk Israel Cannot Afford,” The Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2025, https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-844094 Tal Becker and Dan Senor, “A New U.S. President and the Middle East,” Shalom Hartman Institute, February 2025, https://www.hartman.org.il/call-me-back-featuring-tal-becker Nir Boms, “The New Syria: […]

El Centro para la Educación en Israel logra la excelencia en la educación sobre Israel a través de múltiples plataformas que enfatizan el contexto, el contenido y la perspectiva. La reputación de clase mundial del CIE se basa en un compromiso sostenido con la integridad académica que produce materiales confiables, oportunos y dignos de confianza. […]

The Center for Israel Education is unique because its work is based on Jewish context and otherwise mostly unavailable content. Providing excellence in Israel education through perspective and via multiple platforms separates our work from all others. CIE’s world-class reputation is based on a sustained commitment to scholarly integrity. We inform and inspire with reliable, […]

Compiled by Ryder Zufi Hamas shocked Israeli political, military and intelligence leaders when it launched the vicious terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 Israelis and others and took more than 250 hostages. Although the mass operation of thousands of militants attacking from Gaza was a surprise, the objectives were consistent with […]

One of Israel’s greatest writers, Natan Alterman reminded Israel’s accusers in 1969, that well into the twentieth century the Palestinians did not even understand themselves as a separate people with a distinctive national identity marking them off from other Arabs. His argument, if framed as a question, might be formulated along these lines: If no one else, not least the Palestinians’ own ancestors, saw their own distinctive nation in Ottoman Palestine, how can the Zionists be blamed for not seeing one either? Thus, to fault the Zionists for failing to see what was not yet visible to anyone else, including the Palestinians, is to fault them, not for suffering from blindness, but for lacking clairvoyance.

Compiled by Ryder Zufi and Aidan New Public expressions of antisemitism had been rising for years before Oct. 7, 2023. But since Hamas started a war that day with its terrorist invasion into southern Israel, anti-Jewish signs, statements and images have exploded to the point that hatred of Jews has become normalized, from the streets […]

À medida que o sionismo avançava de forma contínua a partir do final dos anos 1800 com a ideia da criação de um lar nacional e até o estabelecimento do Estado judeu em 1948, a condição disfuncional da política árabe-palestina, aliada ao empobrecimento econômico incessante, arraigado em torno de divisões sociológicas, impossibilitou competir de forma […]

Scott Abramson y Ken Stein En su famoso ensayo de 2004 “Entre la derecha y la derecha”, el novelista israelí más célebre, Amos Oz , reflexiona sobre la sociedad israelí y resume a sus conciudadanos con esta valoración: “Lo que nosotros, los judíos israelíes, somos en realidad [es] un grupo de refugiados y supervivientes medio […]

Como historiador del Medio Oriente, Ken Stein analiza en detalle las negociaciones egipcio-israelíes de 1977-1979. Menciona la caída del Sha de Irán, su trabajo en el Centro Carter, la creciente visión negativa de Carter hacia Israel, su acercamiento a Hamás y el impacto de su controvertido libro antiisraelí de 2006, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.

Abdullah II remains studiously noncommittal in support of Trump’s idea for the US to take over the Gaza Strip, rebuilding it, and relocating the Palestinians to other countries. With Jordan’s strong economic, strategic, and defense ties to Washington, no one expected the King to be effusive for Trump’s suggestions for Gaza’s future. Jordan lacks the economic and demographic absorptive capacities and, the political interest to take in another wave of Palestinians into its territory.

The clash of great powers to control the Middle East, particularly between the US and the USSR neither began after the end of WWII nor ended with the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Today, China, the US, Russia, and Middle Eastern regional powers vie to influence everyday politics and resources.

By Moshe Naor “Israel’s 1948 War of Independence as a Total War,” Journal of Contemporary History, 2008. The 1948 Israeli-Arab War is described in most research as a military conflict that began between two national entities in Palestine, and developed into a regular war between armies. This general description of the war presents a periodization […]

January 15, 2025, effective January 19, 2025 “Negotiations that take place not to reach a conclusion, but are undertaken to gain political credit, sustain positions in office, and obtain lots of cash are equivalent to giving gas in neutral.” — Ken Stein, January 19, 2025 On January 19, 2025, a Hamas-Israel war cease-fire agreement came […]

In a stunning commitment, Trump notes that U.S. intends to take ownership of the Gaza Strip. He announces withdrawal of US aid to UNWRA, imposition of maximum sanctions on Iran as Netanyahu states that Hamas will be gone from Gaza and the hostages freed. Both are hopeful for expanding the Abraham Accords.

By Aidan New and Michael Jacobs (updated April 9) President Donald Trump’s second administration had an impact in the Middle East even before his inauguration Jan. 20, 2025: Special Middle East envoy Steven Witkoff was widely reported to have pushed the Hamas-Israel cease-fire past the finish line during President Joe Biden’s final week in office. […]

Two major discordant issues that vexed Israel before October 7, 2023, continue to cleave Israeli society: a possible exemption from mandatory military service for the Haredim and the Netanyahu government’s persistent effort to wrench from the judiciary its independence, seeking to give the government with the parliamentary majority an opportunity to control who sits on the […]

From biblical times to the present, Jews and Judaism have had an unbroken connection to Zion, a reference to Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel. Linking people to the land, building and preserving Israel, is the dynamic of Zionism. 

Cohen shows regular Palestinian Arab collaboration with Zionists before Israel was established and asserts that local and family loyalties, with identity to villages, and not to a nation, did severe harm to the Palestinian struggle against Jewish nation building. (Presented with permission of the author, June 2024).