Recent Blogs

• J Street Among 62 Organizations Telling Congress: Halt a March to War with Iran

  Congress must fulfill its constitutional responsibility by making absolutely clear that the president is not authorized to trigger a new conflagration in the Middle East.

• Two-Way Street | A message of hope – tikvah – for Yom Ha’atzmaut

  This year, we will once again wave the Israeli flag with memory of its dream and its hope -- and accept the imperative to make good on that hope.

• “When will this madness stop?”

  Last night in Tel Aviv, I attended what I believe to be one of the most important and meaningful ceremonies that takes place in my country -- the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony.

• Nachshon Ben Aminadav: A Hero for our Times

  Let Pesach renew our faith in the possibility of peace and our hopes that new Nachshons will take history into their hands and lead us to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Benjamin Netanyahu rejects generals’ warning against West Bank annexation, The National
Israel’s prime minister doubled down on his pledge to annex parts of the occupied West Bank this week after Israeli media reported that a group of retired generals had warned him against any such move because it would endanger the country. “Swaths of land in Judea and Samaria are not just a guarantee of Israel’s security – they are also our patrimony,” Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted in response on Tuesday, using his preferred Biblical Hebrew names for the West Bank.

Netanyahu Aims for Narrow Coalition as Talks Hit Snag, Haaretz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the heads of the coalition government Thursday and decided to create a narrow coalition of only 60 seats, but called on Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman to “stand by his obligation to the voters” and join the coalition, in order to create a solid majority.