US-Israel Relations

On Israel-Palestine, Biden Is Not Just Another Version of Obama

Published in Haaretz Many in Israel are expressing concern that the administration of President-elect Joe Biden will be a repeat of the Obama administration. But Biden is not Barack Obama and 2021 is not 2009. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are traditional Democrats, with a fundamental commitment to Israel whose roots are in part emotional in nature (in contrast…
On Israel-Palestine, Biden Is Not Just Another Version of Obama

New Publications in the Field

Opinion Articles

Israeli And Diaspora Jews: ‘We Are Siblings, Not Cousins’

For an Israeli like me, the recent visit to Israel of 450 members of the Park Avenue Synagogue is very encouraging.
Opinion Articles

China, Israel, and the United States: Triangular Pressures

On December 31, 2018, JPPI Senior Fellow Dr. Shalom Wald discussed China – Israel relations, and their implications for US – Israel relations, in light of recent tensions between Washington and Beijing.
2017 Conference on Shifting Trends

Op-Ed: Shifts in the West: Impacts on Israel and the Jewish People

Published by The Jerusalem Post Dramatic political shifts have occurred in the West, with important impacts on Israel and the Jewish People: the moderate center collapsed in American politics, and is at risk of doing so throughout the Western world. The partisan divide in American politics is becoming an unbridgeable chasm, with the type of bipartisanship that had characterized American…
2017 Conference on Shifting Trends
2017 Conference on Shifting Trends

Closing Remarks at the 2017 Conference on the Future of the Jewish People

Closing remarks and summary of the Jewish People Policy Institute’s (JPPI) 2017 Conference on the Future of the Jewish People, “Shifting Trends in the West and their Impact on the Future of the Jewish People”. Summation given by Ambs. Dennis Ross and Stuart Eizenstat, co-chairs of the JPPI board. Final remarks given by Avinoam Bar-Yosef, founding director and president of JPP.
2017 Conference on Shifting Trends

Amb. Dennis Ross – Foreign Policy Challenges Facing Trump Administration

Ambassador Dennis Ross, Co-Chair of the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) Board of Directors and veteran US Diplomat, discussing the foreign policy challenges facing US President Donald Trump and his incoming administration. Amb. Ross is introduced by Avinoam Bar-Yosef, President and Founding Director of JPPI.  

Amb. Dennis Ross – Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama

Ambassador Dennis Ross delivers a talk, “Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama”, at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem in March, 2016.

Elliott Abrams – Foreign Policy Implications of 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Elliott Abrams, Former Deputy National Security Advisor at the NSC, speaking at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem about the foreign policy implications of the 2016 US presidential election. Former Israeli Ambassador to Washington, Sallai Meridor, responds with an Israeli perspective.
Opinion Articles

Op-Ed: The Truth from the U.S.

This article was originally published in Forward. American Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro recently charged that Israel employs a doublelegal standard in the West Bank: one for Israelis and another for Palestinians. No one can question Shapiro’s friendship toward Israel. His worrying observation reflects the frustration of many Americans who are true friends of Israel and yet deeply concerned about its…
Opinion Articles
Special Reports

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…
Special Reports