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Assembled by Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Iran-Israel War Videos CNN International, “Israel’s Covert Intelligence Operations,” June 26, 2025, Jonathan Conricus. Israel Policy Forum, “Assessing the War in Iran,” June 25,…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Oded Ailam, “This Is How Iran Recruited Dozens of Israeli Spies,” Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, May 22, 2025. Aziz Alghashian, “Saudi…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Aviram Bellaishe, “When Recognition Becomes Evasion: Europe’s Palestinian Statehood Campaign,” Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, April 29, 2025. Ilan Berman, “The Middle…
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…
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…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Daniel Ben-David, “Israel’s New US Ambassador Suggests Saudi Normalisation on the Brink,” Jewish Chronicle, January 28, 2025, https://www.thejc.com/news/world/israels-us-ambassador-saudi-normalisation-xyz5dgkb Ahmed Charai, “Look to Middle Eastern…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Kaasra Aarabi, “I Spoke to Khamenei’s Foot Soldiers. He Is in Trouble,” The Jewish Chronicle, December 19, 2024, https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/i-spoke-to-khameneis-footsoldiers-he-is-in-trouble-uowe2t5a Ofra Bengio, “Vindicating The Poisoned…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Lenny Ben-David, “Iran Spreads Illegal Drugs in the Middle East, Western Hemisphere, and the Far East,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, October 13, 2024,…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education David Makovsky, moderator, “Decision Points: Hamas, Israel, Hezbollah and the Middle East at War,” audio interviews from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Yoni…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Scott Abramson, “The Iranian Regime Is Not Its People,” Jewish News Syndicate, August 19, 2024, https://www.jns.org/the-iranian-regime-is-not-its-people Brian C. Anderson, “A Crisis on Campus,” City Journal, August 17,…