Ro’i Rothberg Is Killed Near Nahal Oz
Killed in an ambush along the Gaza border, Ro’i Rothberg is eulogized by Moshe Dayan. Rothberg becomes a symbol for the inability to achieve peace in Israel's early years.
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Paul Rivlin: The Crisis in Gaza
Though written in May 2017, Paul Rivlin, a Moshe Dayan Center researcher analyzes a rich trove of data to analyze the Gaza Strip's troubling economic character. Five major reasons are enumerated for its dilemmas: absence of investment, extraordinary high unemployment, a very young population, inability of goods and services to go in and out of the strip, and Hamas's stranglehold on taxation and spending.
The Impact of Covid-19 on Middle Eastern and North African Studies: A Curated Reading List (March 2020 through April 2, 2021)
Think tanks, scholars and analysts are producing excellent assessments of the impact that the Coronavirus pandemic is having on Middle Eastern countries. The number of monthly articles devoted to the pandemic was extraordinarily high until mid-July 2020, when the topic took a back seat to intense discussions on speculations about Israel’s possible annexation of portions […]
#97 Contemporary Readings, March 2021
Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling Emory University and Center for Israel Education [email protected] or [email protected] Micky Aharonson, “The Israel-Russia-Syria deal: Cost, beneficiaries and future deals,” Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, March 3, 2021. https://jiss.org.il/en/aharonson-the-israel-russia-syria-deal/ Aida Alami, “Bridging Time, Distance and Distrust with Music: Neta Elkayam, an Israeli singer, plumbs the rich culture of the […]
Yigael Yadin Born
March 20, 1917 Yigael Yadin, a general also known for his archaeological work, is born in Jerusalem. His father is an archaeologist, and his mother is a women’s rights activist. Yadin joins the Haganah when he is 15 years old and goes on full active duty during the Arab Rebellion of 1936. He rises to […]
Mossad’s Meir Amit Born
March 17, 1921 Meir Amit, a career soldier who builds the Mossad into an internationally renowned intelligence agency, is born Meir Slutzky on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in Tiberias. He attends agricultural school at Kibbutz Givat Ha’shlosha and the Balfour Reali secondary school in Tel Aviv. He starts a distinguished military career […]
The Israeli Political System
Elections, Parliament, Political Culture, Prime Ministers, Parties and the Voting Public Israel has a parliamentary system of government with some unusual features in the elections and the creation of multiparty ruling coalitions, as explained by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Click here to see the results of all of the elections with infographics for Israel’s […]
Opciones y Realidades de la Política Internacional de Biden en el Medio Oriente
Ken Stein 12 de enero, 2021, presentación virtual, patrocinado por The Temple, Atlanta,GA y CIE. https://youtube.com/watch?v=c4jMHIwvOLI Rabino Peter Berg: [00:00:00] Buenas noches a todos y bienvenidos a nuestro programa. Estamos emocionados de tener a tanta gente aquí con nosotros esta noche para uno de nuestros programas Tamid, uno de nuestros programas de aprendizaje para adultos […]
9 Killed in Raid on Arab Village
February 6, 1951 Israeli soldiers launch an overnight raid across the Green Line to Sharafat, an Arab waqf village of about 200 residents south of the portion of Jerusalem controlled by Israel at the end of the War of Independence. Ordered by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, the attack comes in retaliation for a cross-border raid […]
#95 Contemporary Readings, January 2021
Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling Emory University and Center for Israel Education [email protected] or [email protected] Meirav Arlozoroff, “Israel’s Population Is Growing at a Dizzying Rate. Is It Up for the Challenge?” Haaretz, January 4, 2021. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-israel-s-population-is-growing-at-a-dizzying-rate-is-it-up-for-the-challenge-1.9410043 Shlomo Avineri, “[YouTube video] Israeli Democracy: Historical Origins and Future Perspectives,” UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, January 13, […]
Israel’s Road to the June 1967 War
A timeline of the events leading up to and the conclusion of the Six-Day War in June 1967
Options and Realities for Biden’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East
President Biden comes to the presidency with more Washington experience than any other former president. While he has designated a foreign policy team with significant experience, his immediate priorities will be domestic. With a razor thin senate majority why would he expend political capital in trying to find solutions to Middle Eastern issues that are highly complex, seemingly intractable, and culturally embedded? The exception might be seeking to curtail Iran's nuclear and regional aggressiveness.