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An Open Letter to the New Minister of Religious Services

Published in: The Marker To the Honorable Minister David Azoulay, As Israel’s Minister of Religious Services, you have been given a golden opportunity to bring great honor to Jewish tradition, with relative ease. Following are a few recommendations for ways in which you can do this: Increase efficiency: Religious services, like all other services, must be efficient and friendly; today,…
04/06/2015
Israeli, US Jewish leaders discuss Jewish solidarity in polarization times

Israeli, US Jewish leaders discuss Jewish solidarity in polarization times

Dr. Henry Kissinger analyzed the impact of the new world order on the Jewish future and the State of Israel at the annual Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) brainstorming conference held on Glen Cove, Long Island earlier this month. In the same session, Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, praised Israeli high-tech and discussed how the nation’s innovations can contribute to Israel’s…
27/05/2015
Geopolitical Challenges and the New Government
Geopolitics

Geopolitical Challenges and the New Government

The current stormy geopolitical environment will not afford the new Israeli government a grace period. The long list of serious dilemmas, complex and intertwined issues, and decisions that will be made (or delayed), are expected to critically influence Israel’s future. The main geopolitical challenges within the global and regional framework are also stormy, riddled with question marks and are very…
10/05/2015
Geopolitics

The Haredi Draft: Snakes and Ladders

Published In: Ynet English Israel’s coalition negotiations are being conducted far from the public eye. On the face of it, everything is still wide open—the makeup of the coalition, the distribution of portfolios, the basic principles of the government—except for one thing that has already been determined and is set in stone: the cancellation of the criminal sanctions for ultra-Orthodox…
29/04/2015
Op-Ed: Best of Luck to Rivlin
ישראל

Op-Ed: Best of Luck to Rivlin

“It is essential that Bibi and Buji unite forces with President Rivlin in the name of pluralism and democracy.” On the eve of the election a group of prominent Americans met with President Reuven Rivlin in his office. He tried to avoid politics, but in response to one of the more sophisticated questions he set his mouth free. “Sometimes you…
01/04/2015
ישראל
JPPI’s Emergency Plan for French Aliyah
Europe's Jewry

JPPI’s Emergency Plan for French Aliyah

In light of recent developments in Europe, particularly in France, JPPI wrote an Emergency Plan for the Aliyah and absorption of 120,000 French  Jews. To read the full report: Emergency Plan for French Aliyah
23/03/2015
By: Dr. Dov Maimon
Europe's Jewry
Op-Ed: A Speech and a Wake-Up Call
US-Israel Relations

Op-Ed: A Speech and a Wake-Up Call

Originally posted in The Jerusalem Post As were many who care one way or another about US-Israel relations, I was apprehensive in the runup to the Iran speech Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to Congress this past week. Yet what initially looked like it would be either a diplomatic blunder or even a cynical pre-election move turned out to be anything…
12/03/2015
US-Israel Relations

The Elephant in the Room: Relations between Religion and State in Israel

Published in: Ynet English There is an elephant in the room. It is filling the entire space, yet appears to be calm. If it makes the slightest move, however, it will cause major damage to its surrounding. Everyone is tiptoeing quietly around the elephant. Professional rabble-rousers—politicians from the left and right, people with special interests seeking their cut, members of…
24/02/2015

New Partners in the Struggle Against Terrorism

Published In: Ynet If there is anything we should avoid saying right now, when the Danish people are grieving over the terrorist attack and mourning its victims, it is remarks of the sort that have often been typical of us Israelis: “Now you’ll finally understand what we have been going through all these years, what we are experiencing, and why…
18/02/2015
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