Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad, in Israel since 1970, Hebrew U. MA, resides in Shiloh and is an activist for Zionism and Judea & Samaria.

YAIR GOLAN, chairman of The Democrats Party, appears before his MKs at a parliamentary faction meeting in the Knesset last month. In Israel, hypocritical behavior is fairly standard, the writer argues.

Israel's self-declared gatekeepers should be locked out or locked up - opinion

NEW YORK CITY mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks at a news conference at City Hall Park last week. Jews have a sacred obligation to their homeland; neither international law nor a mayor should obstruct them, the writer argues.

Zohran Mamdani turning NY synagogue attacks into anti-Israel ideological warfare - opinion

TUCKER CARLSON speaks at a memorial service for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, in September.

Tucker Carlson’s demon politics: Christianization leading to antisemitic extremism - opinion


The thrice-turned screw: Mamdani's policies will leave no virtue for Jews of NYC - opinion

'Treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual… only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue,' Henry James wrote. My fear: That there will be no virtue for the Jews of NYC.

Democratic candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks after winning the 2025 New York City Mayoral race, at an election night rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, US, November 4, 2025.

Alert! ‘Deep dark state’ rising: Conspiracy questions in the Sde Teiman scandal - opinion

Many questions remain unresolved about the Sde Teiman scandal and its leaked footage.

THEN-MILITARY advocate-general Maj.-Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi attends a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman last year. Tomer-Yerushalmi and her entire office covered up their own crimes, the writer charges.

Is Israel’s unity with the Diaspora a one-way street? - opinion

Over the past two decades, various Jewish groups have significantly decreased the Zionist quotient factor of British Jewry.

Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli

‘Anyone but Bibi’ becomes ‘it’s all about Bibi’ - opinion

The opposition's rallying cry has remained unchanged over the years.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, October 20, 2025

The need for penalty clauses: Punishments for breaking peace deals - opinion

Almost none of the dozens of agreements of the past seven decades have spelled out any specific penalties for infractions or for not following through on the parties’ commitments.

Slain Israeli Prime Minister Rabin with former US President Bill Clinton and former PLO President Yasser Arafat after signing the Oslo Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

Anti-Zionism’s chutzpah: An insult to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's legacy - opinion

Chutzpah is the sanctified brazenness that anti-Zionists and the opponents of Israel have cloaked themselves with.

ACTOR Mandy Patinkin sent out a rewriting of the ‘Al Het’ prayer: ‘Not in our name – bombing and destroying entire cities. Not in our name – continued and eternal occupation. Not in our name – the shredding of Israeli democracy.’

High Holy Days: Heeding the Rosh Hashanah call for Shiloh and Jerusalem

We are with God and with ourselves, in belief and in actions, as the Jewish people, the Jewish nation, rooted on our soil, despite words spoken at the Emmy Awards stage. 

RABBI MOSHE SILVER blows a Yemenite shofar at the Jerusalem Promenade

How Netanyahu should defend Israel at the UN General Assembly - opinion

His defense of Israel from the august podium will be a formidable task.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the annual UN General Assembly high-level debate last year. His defense of Israel this year will be a formidable task, says the writer.

Will 'Palestine 36' showcase the true history of the Arab revolt? - opinion

Will an improper balance between fact and the cinematic fictional elements override the genuine historical narrative?

A scene from Palestine 36

Why ‘being with it’ means being against Israel - opinion

It’s a lifestyle, if potentially life-ending for Jews.

A DEMONSTRATOR holds an umbrella reading ‘Free Palestine’ outside the UN in New York last month. The ‘Free Palestine’ campaign draws woke, progressive, liberal, Stalinist, Islamist, and/or antisemitic supporters, says the writer.