2017 Annual Assessment

• Foreword
• Part 1
  • Recommended Policy Directions
  • 2017 Integrated Net Assessment
    • Geopolitics
    • Demography
    • Material Resources
      • Positive Factors
    • Bonds Within and Between Communities
    • Identity Formation and Expression
• Part 2: Dimensions of Jewish Well-being
  • Geopolitics
    • Geopolitical Landscape
      • The International System and U.S. Standing
      • U.S. – Israel Relations and the Resilience of the Triangular Relationship: Jerusalem – Washington – US Jewry
      • The Regional System: Threats and Opportunities
      • The Palestinian System
      • Summary
    • JPPI’s 2017 Brainstorming Conference – Integrative Summary
      • Upsetting the Existing International Order
      • Upsetting the Existing Domestic Political Order in the West
      • Part 2: Shifts in Israel that Could Influence the West’s Approach to Israel and the Jewish People
      • The Rise of the Religious Nationalist Right in Israel
      • Strengthening Israel’s Jewish Characteristics
      • Shifts in Israel’s Strategic Position and Power
      • Demographic Shifts
      • Challenges and Dilemmas that Call for Policy Measures
      • Formulating Israel’s policy vis-à-vis the Trump administration on diplomatic and ideological matters
      • Formulating policy toward Europe’s far-right nationalist parties
      • Shaping a strategy that considers disruptions of the current world order and the rise of new non-Western powers
      • Improving Israel-Diaspora relations in light of trends of polarization and alienation in the West
      • Steps to strengthen Diaspora Jewry given the trends challenging the centrality of communities and institutions
      • Monitoring illiberal internal Israeli trends and curbing initiatives negatively affect the image and values of the Jewish state
    • Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Anti-Semitism Index
      • The Need for an Integrated Index
      • Part One – A Three-Dimensional European anti-Semitism Index
      • Part Two – A Three-Dimensional American anti-Semitism Index
      • Discussion of Implications
      • Endnotes
  • Demography
    • Israelis Abroad
  • Bonds Within and Between Communities
    • Putting the Kotel Decision in Context – Implications and Steps Forward
    • 2017 Structured Jewish World Dialogue – Interim Report
  • Identity Formation and Expression
    • The Rise of Orthodoxy and Political-Cultural Polarization within the Jewish Community in the U.S.
    • The Ongoing Debate Concerning Jewish Identity, Jewish Marriage Patterns, and Jewish Children
    • Re-Emergence of a Diasporistic Jewish Identity in Europe
  • Material Resources
    • Jewish People Ways and Means
      • Anti-globalization and the Jewish People
      • The Jews – An Ancient Modern People
      • The Open (and Closed) Economy of Israel
      • Transformation in the Material Resource Base of the North American Jewish Community
      • Need for Historical Perspective — and Forward Reconnaissance
      • Endnotes
  • People of the Book
    • Creativity and the Factors that drive Intellectual and Cultural Achievements
• Part 3: Feature Articles
  • The Arabs of Israel between “Israelization” and “Palestinization”*