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Explicit intentions of the agreement were not only to strengthen bilateral relations during the Cold War, but to boost Israel’s struggling economy. For 30 years Israel has maintained an annual trade surplus with the United States.

Among Palestinians, Hamas popularity soars, two state solution at lowest ebb, Rise in European Anti-semitism, and Michael Mihlstein’s insightful analysis an essential read.

History remembers the following lecture (translated into English for the first time) not only as one of Amos Oz’s most celebrated, but also as his last. Regardless of whether he intended it as such, the lecture represents a summation of his insights on the subjects he had engaged with throughout a career that spanned a half-century.

In early May 1921, communal riots unfolded in Jaffa and at Jewish settlements along the coast. There were 96 deaths, equally between Arabs and Jews. This inquiry commission confirmed what another 20 official investigations into Palestine’s political realities would show until 1948, the two communities could not live together; attempts to promote communal coexistence could not overcome angry and geometrically increasing intolerance of the other. And importantly a very low Jewish and Arab interest of wanting to live with one another. From before WWI forward, both strongly preferred spatial, organizational, and political separatism.

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 Studies, March 20, 2025, https://dayan.org/content/politics-faith-discourse-and-practice-among-women-islamic-movement-israel Calev Ben-Dor, “A Tale of Two ‘Marches’,” Fathom Journal, March 2025, https://fathomjournal.org/a-tale-of-two-marches/​ Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis, […]

Ben-Gurion elegantly connects modern Israel from messianic redemption to Zionism, building the country through labor and immigration, with dual needs to remain actively linked to the Jewish diaspora and Jewish values through education.

This document was secured at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. Less than a year before Hitler invaded Poland, Arab leaders with an interest in Palestine are starkly disappointed that the the German government did not go to war against the Zionists in Palestine. The same leaders give the Zionist national builders high marks for their perseverance against terrorist bands in the Palestinian countryside. They worry that unless Arab states come to the Palestinians’ assistance, Palestine will be lost to the Zionists. A remarkable assessment for Palestinian Arab leaders and their supporters.

El ayatolá Alí Jamenei se dirige a un grupo de veteranos y activistas de la yihad en Teherán el 25 de septiembre de 2024. (Crédito: leader.ir) 4 de octubre de 2024 Fuente: https://english.khamenei.ir/news/11146/Palestinian-and-Lebanese-Resistance-pushed-back-Zionist-regime El discurso del líder iraní, el ayatolá Alí Jamenei, es un resumen del odio de Irán hacia Israel y Estados Unidos, y […]

Ken Stein, March 26, 2025 Summary: Ripe conditions that prefaced the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Treaty are almost totally absent in 2025 that might presage additional Arab-Israeli agreements. Why? Today, there is a an absence in political will, courage, and foresight of leaders to change the non-war status quo;  dysfunctional structural weaknesses are present among all parties […]

British Foreign Ministry promises to set up a Jewish National Home in Palestine with no harm to non-Jewish populations, or to Jews living elsewhere who might want to support a Jewish home.

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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, […]

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 […]

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.

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. […]

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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 […]