A Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University living in Jerusalem, Gil Troy is an award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist. The author of nine works on US history, his seven books on Zionism include the classic anthology, The Zionist Ideas. He recently published To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream, and – with the JPPI – The Essential Guide to October 7 and its Aftermath: Facts, Figures, History, now available in French and Hebrew. He has been included in Algemeiner’s J-100, one of the top 100 people "positively influencing Jewish life."
Geopolitics
Widespread hostility for Jews and Israel found in Egypt’s state media
87% of articles about Israel in the past year were negative; 29% of articles mentioning Jews contained antisemitic content.
New Publications in the Field
Opinion Articles
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It’s Morning in Jerusalem After Israel Strikes Iran
Headlines call the attack ‘pre-emptive.’ It was anything but.
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Israel had a window of opportunity to attack Iran and it was right to use it
Three key factors made an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities a viable option today, but what happens after the strike?
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Last minute strike: Israel’s attack on Iran prevented an existential threat
The catastrophic October 7 assault, launched unilaterally by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar before the Iranian noose had fully tightened, may have spared Israel from a far greater calamity.
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Why Israel Attacking Iran Was Inevitable
Israel was reborn to ensure that Jews would never again be passive victims of history’s storms. The lesson of Jewish sovereignty is not that power corrupts, but that powerless virtue is not enough.
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Calling All Jews: This is Your Moment
Americans must understand that, sometimes, especially when facing maniacal Jihadi dictators, a little bit of short-term war is the best way to get a whole lot of long-term peace.
Articles
Articles
Dr. Shuki Friedman Interviewed by Alarabiya English
Dr. Friedman discusses: recent reports of violence at aid stations in Gaza; Netanyahu’s trial and threats by the ultra-Orthodox parties to bring his government down; and sanctions imposed on Smotrich and Ben-Gvir by some of Israel’s allies.
Researchers Team

Yaakov Katz
Bio
Yaakov Katz is an Israeli-American author and journalist. Between 2016 and 2023, Yaakov was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post where he continues to write a popular weekly column.
He is the author of three books - “Shadow Strike – Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power”, “Weapon Wizards - How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower” and “Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War”.
Shadow Strike was recently adapted into a docudrama by Reshet Media and his books have been published in a number of languages including English, Hebrew, Czech, Polish, Japanese and Mandarin.
His next book – tentatively titled “Precision Strike” – is scheduled for publication by St. Martin’s Press in the Spring of 2025.
Yaakov served for close to a decade as the paper's military reporter and defense analyst and was a lecturer at Harvard University where he taught an advanced course in journalism. He also served as Israel correspondent for Jane’s Defence Weekly.
Prior to taking up the role of editor-in-chief, Yaakov served for two years as a senior policy adviser to Naftali Bennett during his tenure as Israel’s Minister of Economy and Minister of Diaspora Affairs.
In 2013, Yaakov was one of 12 international fellows to spend a year at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Originally from Chicago, Yaakov has a law degree from Bar Ilan University.
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Prof. Gil Troy
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Dr. Shuki Friedman
Director General
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Dr. Shuki Friedman is the Vice President of the Jewish People Policy Institute. He is a member of the Faculty of Law at the Peres Academic Center and formerly served as secretary of the Locker Committee for Examining the Defense Budget. He was also chairman of the government committee on the sanctions against Iran, and headed the international and foreign law department for the legal division of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.
Areas of expertise
The relationship of religion and state; processes of religionization; secular-religious-ultra-Orthodox relations; ultra-Orthodox employment; the defense budget; Islamic law; international law; the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.
Focus Areas and Research
Antisemitism, Geopolitics, Democracy, Religion and State, Identity, Thin Constitution, Haredim, Israel-Diaspora Relations
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Dr. Dov Maimon
Senior Fellow
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Senior Fellow at JPPI, Dov Maimon leads the "Grand Strategy toward Islam" project, the "Israel-Diaspora New Paradigm" project and the Institute's activities in Europe.
Among his action-oriented work, he is a member of the Advisory Committee for Improving access to Ultra-Orthodox to Higher Education chaired by Professor Manuel Trajtenberg. He is also the author of the Action Plan for bringing the developing mass migration of French Jews to Israel. Commissioned by governmental agencies, the plan was adopted by the Israeli Cabinet on June 22nd 2014.
Born in Paris, he earned a B.Sc. from the Technion (Haifa, Israel), a MBA from Insead (Fontainebleau, France), a M.A in Religious Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Islamic and Medieval Studies from the Sorbonne University. He is a laureate of the prestigious prize "Grand Prix du chancelier des universites 2005" awarded to the best French PhD work in Literature and Human Sciences. He is also a graduat of the Mandel School of Educational Leadership. Formerly an High-Tech industry entrepreneur, Dov is teaching at the School of Business Administration of the Ben Gurion University.
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Shmuel Rosner
Senior Fellow
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Shmuel Rosner is a researcher, editor and columnist. He is the editor of the "THE MADAD" project, for politics, society, identity and culture in Israel and serves as a television commentator for Kan News.
Rosner was the editor-in-chief of the non-fiction books in Kinneret-Zamora-Dvir from 2009 to 2021. He was a columnist for the New York Times newspaper from 2012 to 202. He was the head of the news department at Haaretz (1996 to 2008). He is a sought-after lecturer on Israeli politics, security, and policy; the state of the Jewish people; American history, politics, and policy.
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