Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

There is no systematic procedure for promoting IDF officers to the rank of major-general, the reservoir of officers from which all senior army…

There is no systematic procedure for promoting IDF officers to the rank of major-general, the reservoir of officers from which all commanders of the…

No one can quite pinpoint what Defense Minister Ehud Barak has against IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi. It’s now being ventured…

Traffic enforcementSir, – As a retired police officer from the United States, I can tell you I am aware of the lack of traffic enforcement in Israel…

Fifty percent of Jewish Israeli high-schoolers believe that Arab Israelis should not be granted the same rights as their Jewish counterparts,…

Daniel Ben-Simon, a novice Labor Party MK, who was elected to head the Labor faction in the coalition, recently resigned that post. If one wants to…

Naturally, I thought Ambassador Michael Oren should have accepted J Street's invitation to its convention this coming Sunday. He should have gone…

With a series of astute political gambits in recent days, Netanyahu has defused right-wing criticism, found a workable middle-ground with the US,…

A group of public figures on the Left will launch an initiative in upcoming weeks to support Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's efforts to advance…

Amid escalating rumors that captive tank gunner Gilad Schalit is about to be transferred to Egypt, his father, Noam, speaking Thursday at a Tel Aviv…

"The climate created by the government was to break the Gaza leadership and not to talk to us," former MK Zvi Hendel said Sunday, in testimony before…

Long before the recent Knesset elections intensified the outcries for electoral reform, Isaac Parviz Nazarian, through his Citizens Empowerment…

I'm a poet, an English Jew and a frequent visitor to Israel. Deeply disturbed by the reports of wanton slaughter and destruction during Operation…

Who can recall the olden days when Kadima was young and proudly proclaimed its identity as the one Israeli political party that stands for nothing?…

Whenever OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin enters his office in IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, he passes the pictures of his 15 predecessors. On…

n WHEN BROTHERS Yariv and Sahar Shefa founded the first Aroma Espresso Bar in Jerusalem in 1994, they might have envisaged a local chain in the…

A JPost.com exclusive blog"A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on," Mark Twain reportedly once said.…

El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. chairman Israel Borovich will step down from his post at the end of November. Board member Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former…

A Jewish group in the United States has recruited a number of retired IDF and high-ranking Mossad officials to appear in a video supporting…

In an attempt to combat what it calls a "smear campaign" against US presidential candidate Barack Obama, a new YouTube group called Israelis4Obama…