Avraham Burg

February 10, 1983, started off grimly, and only got worse as the day wore on. Three days earlier, the Kahan State Commission of Inquiry into the…

The gathering of the leadership of the Israeli “peace camp” on Sunday in Ramallah under the auspices of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas…

Diplomacy abhors a vacuum. That was one of the reasons Ariel Sharon unfurled his Gaza disengagement plan in late 2003, and it is also an axiom many…

Approximately 150 left-wing Israeli and foreign activists protested in the east Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan on Friday against…

On the eve of the most crucial part of MK Tzahi Hanegbi’s sentencing for having given false testimony, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense…

Most people would agree that there’s nothing like a good story. Even in this digitized, here-and-now, sterile-communication, instant-gratification…

US President Barack Obama is deeply committed to peace and wants to enter history as the man to finally end the Arab- Israeli conflict, Nobel…

As someone who deeply appreciates what Western civilization, for all its faults, has achieved, I puzzle over the hostility many Westerners harbor…

Carnage on our roads... Sir, – The driver of the vehicle involved in last week’s minibus-train crash had, according to police, 11 traffic violations…

Former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg announced this week that he plans to form a new joint Jewish-Arab party ahead of the next election, that would…

Gratuitous mention Sir, – I am all for pointing out when individuals (or groups) in the haredi world (or any other population) act in a manner that…

Kai Bird grew up in interesting times. He lived in lands where castigating others as “Jew-lovers” was normal, where Western blue bloods dined with…

Forty scholars of geopolitics from around the world will land here today to take part in a weeklong seminar, accompanied by professional field trips,…

Peter Beinart’s “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” in last week’s New York Review of Books is an important piece – important in the…

A conference planned for June featuring a high-level Hamas minister and leading German politicians has prompted criticism from diverse organizations,…

Every Holocaust Remembrance Day and every Independence Day the public and the world Jewish community is subjected to a soft barrage of messages. The…

A Jewish Agency ship brings refugees to IsraelPhoto: Jewish AgencyWhen the headquarters of the Jewish Agency were blown up by a car bomb in March…

On January 22 the weekly leftist and Arab protesters in Sheikh Jarrah were joined by a number of Israeli Jewish notables, including former Knesset…

For the first time in several months, left-wing protesters will be allowed to demonstrate this weekend on Othman Road, which leads into the Shimon…

With cyclical regularity, the issue of Israeli suffrage abroad reemerges to stir a temporary tempest in our national teacup. This week it happened…