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JPPI Study: Ben-Gurion’s Speeches Included More Religious References than Netanyahu’s

Study reveals that speeches by Israel’s first prime minister used some 20% more biblical references than Netanyahu has; Ben-Gurion also referenced more Jewish historical figures, but the current prime minister invokes personal religious faith more.
JPPI Study: Ben-Gurion’s Speeches Included More Religious References than Netanyahu’s
Netanyahu and Ben-Gurion. Photo: Yossi Zeliger, TPS. Wikipedia

Amb. Stuart Eizenstat, JPPI’s Co-Chair, Awarded France’s Highest Honor, Officier de la Légion d’Honneur

Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat received it because his leadership and diplomatic skills played an important role in France's efforts to commemorate the Holocaust while strengthening Franco-American friendship.
Geopolitics

Yaakov Katz, in a CNN interview: The situation in the north may escalate

Since Hezbollah began firing at Israel on Oct. 8, the government has tried to limit the scope of the conflict & prevent it from expanding. Has that now changed?
Geopolitics
Antisemitism

Antisemitism in France: Jews Consider Leaving – Dr. Dov Maimon in an interview with i24News

Dr. Dov Maimon was interviewed by i24News and explained the plight of French Jews due to antisemitism in the country.
Antisemitism
Geopolitics

Yaakov Katz, in a BBC interview: Hezbollah smells Jewish blood and wants more

The BBC interviewer claims it’s reasonable for a terrorist group to fire rockets into Israel day after day for nine months. Yaakov Katz answered her appropriately.
Geopolitics

The Art of Diplomacy – Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat

In his new book, Ambassador Eizenstat, co-chairman of JPPI's board, discusses how American negotiators reached historic agreements that changed the world. The book features a foreword by Henry Kissinger and a preface by James Baker.
Geopolitics

The War in Gaza – CNN interview with Yaakov Katz

Hamas uses the hostages to pierce Israelis’ hearts all day and every day and it is up to the West and particularly the US to get Hamas to understand that it will lose.
Geopolitics

Dr. Shuki Friedman: ‘Sanctions are because of internal American politics’

Dr. Shuki Friedman, vice-president of the Jewish People Policy Institute talked with Arutz Sheva about the sanctions imposed by the USA against Israelis.
Jewish Communities Worldwide

21 countries agree to updated guidelines on Nazi-looted art

Stuart Eizenstat, JPPI's Co-Chair: “The Best Practices were drafted with the awareness that there are differing legal systems and that states act within the context of their own laws.”
Jewish Communities Worldwide

“Israel is doing what any country fighting a terror group would do”

Yaakov Katz in an interview with CNN: Despite tension with the US, we need to keep in mind that Israel's doing what any country fighting a cynical terror group like Hamas would do - try to return hostages, fight the enemy, and get aid to civilians in the best and safest way possible.