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<span class="cie-plus-title">2021 Strategic Overview: Vaccines and Vacillations</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

2021 Strategic Overview: Vaccines and VacillationsCIE+

From the Tel Aviv based, INSS, The Institute for National Security Studies, their annual review of Israel’s domestic and foreign policy challenges is available. Released by one of Israel’s most prestigious think tanks, their 2021 Strategic Overview contains more than a dozen thoroughly researched topics. This publication has no peer for excellence and analyses. Its authors are highly respected for their competence in respective fields of specialty, and in the coherence that each of them brings to their essays.

Issues and Analyses|January 26, 2021
<span class="cie-plus-title">From Balfour to Begin, 1917-1977</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

From Balfour to Begin, 1917-1977CIE+

Ken Stein Coincidently during the month of November, occurring over a 60-year period, four important benchmarks were passed in Zionist history and the Jewish quest for statehood and recognition: the 1917 Balfour Declaration, 1947 U.N. partition…

Issues and Analyses|November 19, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">Yitzhak Rabin: Israel Leadership in a Lifetime</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Yitzhak Rabin: Israel Leadership in a LifetimeCIE+

Yitzhak Rabin’s life story, in the words of former Knesset member Nachman Shai, is “the story of the State of Israel.” He fought to create and defend it in 1948 and 1967, represented it in Washington, led it twice as prime minister, liberated Jews from captivity in 1945 and 1976, and embraced an opportunity for a chance at a longtime peace with the Palestinians in 1993. Rabin possessed essential qualities of an admired leader: credible, authentic, honest, visionary, and strategic. In addition, Rabin was taciturn, incisive, and suffered no fools. For a lifetime, he put the Jewish people on his shoulders as defender and diplomat.

Issues and Analyses|November 2, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">Constructive Ambiguity in Middle East Peacemaking</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Constructive Ambiguity in Middle East PeacemakingCIE+

Constructive ambiguity is a concept sometimes utilized in international negotiations to overcome remaining, unresolved issues. In such cases, parties agree to adopt a word or an expression that is so ambiguous they can both accept it—typically allowing them to reach an agreement without departing from their original, contradictory positions on certain contentious issues. This article describes instances in Arab-Israeli relations in which fundamental disagreements between the parties have been resolved—in fact, papered over—through constructive ambiguity.

Issues and Analyses|October 15, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">Israel and the Arab World: Breaking the Glass Ceiling</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Israel and the Arab World: Breaking the Glass CeilingCIE+

Six weeks before the UAE and Israel announced their mutual recognition in August 2020, Tel Aviv University Professor Eyal Zisser published a comprehensive perspective defining the compatible national interests for Arab state and Israeli mutual cooperation. Then resolving the Palestinian issue was still considered the key blockage to entrenching those ties publically. That obstacle was removed with the signing of the September 15, 2020 Bahrain-Israel-UAE Agreement.

Issues and Analyses|September 25, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">Israelis Pessimistic on the Country’s Outlook but Hopeful on Peace with UAE</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Israelis Pessimistic on the Country’s Outlook but Hopeful on Peace with UAECIE+

As the new year approaches, two-thirds of those interviewed described the public mood in Israel as pessimistic and a fourth as optimistic. There is skepticism about the country’s collective mood but personally the public is optimistic about the future. Two-third of Israelis think that there is a high or very high chance that there will be new elections in four months. (Published with Courtesy of the Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute, 2020).

Issues and Analyses|September 8, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">Israel-United Arab Emirates Recognition</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Israel-United Arab Emirates RecognitionCIE+

On August 13, 2020, when the United Arab Emirates agreed to pursue full normal relations with Israel, without any Israeli withdrawal from lands it won in the June 1967 war, the sacred negotiating formula, “Land for Peace” that had dominated Arab-Israeli talks for half a century abruptly ended.

Issues and Analyses, Ken's Blog|August 20, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">Great Powers, the Middle East and the Cold Wars</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Great Powers, the Middle East and the Cold WarsCIE+

The clash of great powers to control the Middle East, particularly between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., neither began after World War II nor ended with the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. Today, China, the U.S., Russia and Middle Eastern regional powers vie to influence everyday politics and resources.

Issues and Analyses|August 9, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">The Western Wall and the Jews: More than a Thousand Years of Prayer</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

The Western Wall and the Jews: More than a Thousand Years of PrayerCIE+

Against the background of the Jordanian condemnation of Israel for work carried out by Israel on the southern extension of the Western Wall and the Muslim denial of the Jewish connection to the Western Wall, Nadav Shragai, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center, published this collection of forgotten and lesser-known facts about the Western Wall, which Muslims are trying to deny.

Issues and Analyses|July 31, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">Proven Success in Israel Education: Context, Sources and Perspective</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Proven Success in Israel Education: Context, Sources and PerspectiveCIE+

Using original sources and employing perspective are keys to substantive Israel education. Failure to use either, handicaps and prejudices learning about Israel. When documents and texts or a broad overview of the literature in a field are not employed, there is a strong possibility that the educator either has a personal political agenda or, is covering up for their own lack of knowledge of what they are teaching. This premise is true for teaching any country’s history and through the lens of any discipline. I reside in the discipline of history.

Issues and Analyses, Ken's Blog|July 13, 2020|Spanish|German
<span class="cie-plus-title">Coronavirus, Oil and the Middle East</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Coronavirus, Oil and the Middle EastCIE+

Hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people have been put out of work and the result is a massive loss of output and a collapse in the demand for goods and services. There is great uncertainty regarding the development of therapeutics and prevention; health services face massive pressure and many countries have abandoned orthodox economic policies to support households, firms, and financial markets. Conventional economic theory has once again been put to the test and found wanting. The Middle East has been hit by two large overlapping shocks: COVID-19 and the collapse in oil prices.

Issues and Analyses|June 26, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">West Bank Areas A, B and C – How Did They Come into Being?</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

West Bank Areas A, B and C – How Did They Come into Being?CIE+

In January, President Donald Trump published his long-awaited plan for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People.” The president’s vision calls for Israel to annex roughly 30% of the West Bank – half of Area C – with Areas A, B and the balance of Area C allocated to the future State of Palestine (which is also slated to receive additional land, currently a sovereign part of Israel, of roughly equal size to lands to be annexed by Israel).

Issues and Analyses|June 10, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">A Guide for Streaming Israeli Content</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

A Guide for Streaming Israeli ContentCIE+

In this new world of social distancing and staying at home, life can slip into a monotonous routine, but there are good ways to liven up your time at home. One is by watching captivating television. But even that can become stale. How many times can you watch Love Is Blind, Tiger King or The Office? Instead, try streaming shows that deal with Israel. The past twenty years have seen an onslaught of exciting, mesmerizing and thrilling productions that offer insights into the nuances of Israel’s history and culture.

Issues and Analyses|April 20, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">Origins of Yom Hashoah: Holocaust Memorial Day</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Origins of Yom Hashoah: Holocaust Memorial DayCIE+

Using original sources, learners will explore the origins of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, in Israel. The unit includes historical discussion on the importance of commeorating the tragedy of the Holocaust and different proposals that were put forward in the Land of Israel both before and after the creation of the state doing so. A writing prompt is included for use in school settings.

Issues and Analyses|April 14, 2020
<span class="cie-plus-title">Israeli/Hebrew Music Collections — Easily Accessible</span><span class="cie-plus-badge">CIE+</span>

Israeli/Hebrew Music Collections — Easily AccessibleCIE+

Contemporary Israeli music has long and varied roots. It is rich and dynamically innovative. Instrumental and vocal streams reflect Jewish and Israeli history. Engage your senses in diversely eclectic flavors. Listen wherever you are—links to free online sources; stream Israeli music from many genres and eras.

Issues and Analyses|April 2, 2020
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