ALIZA PILICHOWSKI

Aliza Pilichowski was born in San Diego, California, and grew up in Dayton, Ohio, Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Monsey, New York. Aliza studied in Jerusalem for five years. Aliza married Rabbi Uri Pilichowski in 1998 and is a mother to six lovely children. The Pilichowskis moved to Beverly Hills, CA, where Aliza served as the youth director at the famed Beth Jacob Congregation. While at Beth Jacob, Aliza created a national model for teen and youth departments. Aliza was also the youth director at the Boca Raton Synagogue and worked as an interfaith hospice chaplain. In July 2014, in the midst of Operation Protective Edge, the Pilichowskis moved to Mitzpe Yericho, a town 20 minutes northeast of Jerusalem. Aliza is a certified interfaith chaplain in Jerusalem hospitals and old age homes, where she specializes in end-of-life spiritual care. After only three years in Mitzpe Yericho, Aliza ran for city council and won a seat with 87% of the vote. In 2018, she was named mayor of Mitzpe Yericho and has been reelected four times. While in elected office, Aliza has overseen the expansion of residential housing and municipal services, including a pool, a sports center, and public parks. She is available for speaking engagements in Israel and around the world.

 MAN walks in the Jewish outpost of Yahish Zion, near the Jewish settlement of Psagot, in the West Bank.

Israel's heart is not in Tel Aviv - it is in Judea and Samaria - opinion

Cameron Kasky, a junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School speaks, during a rally with Thurgood Marshall Academy students in advance of Saturday's March for Our Lives event in Washington, US March 22, 2018.

Cameron Kasky's one-sided anti-Israel activism is not moral courage - opinion

YITZHAK RABIN, Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in the movie ‘The Oslo Diaries,’ about the attempt to bring peace to the Middle East through the Oslo Accords during the 1990s.

Israel cannot negotiate with enemies who seek its destruction - opinion


America's separation of church and state maintains its strong bond to Israel - opinion

Mainstream media coverage of the recent Turning Point USA’s annual conference was concerning for the American Jewish community, Israelis, and pro-Israel Americans of all religions.

US VICE President JD Vance is seen at the Turning Point USA conference last week. His statements that the US will always be a Christian nation is nauseating in its inconsistency and undermining of the founding fathers’ intentions, the writer says.

The US must push Palestinians with sanctions, ostracizations instead of coddling - opinion

An end to the conflict will continue to be impeded by Palestinian intransigence until serious actions against them demonstrate that reform is their only path to survival.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and PA head Mahmoud Abbas pose at the world summit on ending the Israel-Hamas War, in Sharm el-Sheikh, in October 2025.

Oslo’s legacy and the growing gap between Israel, Diaspora - opinion

Many American Jews, remain frozen in the amber of 1990s Oslo optimism. Living far from the bombs, insulated by distance and liberal universalism.

The scene after a suicide attack at the Park Hotel in Netanya during a Passover Seder in 2002, in which 30 civilians were killed: Oslo optimism felt like a dangerous delusion, says the writer.

Graham flips on the two-state solution warning Israel 'no sustainable future' without it - opinion

Senator Lindsey Graham’s fluctuating stance on the two-state solution, especially after October 7, represents the growing divide among Americans around the issue.

GEORGE W. BUSH became the first American president to announce support for the two-state solution for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says the writer.

Wider Israeli society should visit Israel's heartland to build support for annexation - opinion

It's time for the settler community to make the case to the Israelis opposing the annexation of Judea and Samaria about its beauty and importance.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson visits the West Bank, August 4, 2025.

Ron Dermer, Israel’s architect of survival, deserves gratitude, not protest, for his work - opinion

The hostage agreement wouldn’t have happened without Dermer’s involvement.

STRATEGIC AFFAIRS MINISTER Ron Dermer attends the special Knesset plenum session in honor of US President Donald Trump, October 13, 2025.

Alternative plans exist other than the two-state solution - opinion

There are many former Israeli prime ministers, Palestinian advocates, and American presidents and officials who lack the imagination necessary to consider alternative plans to the two-state solution.

THEN-US ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during a visit to Efrat, in Gush Etzion, in 2020. He has proposed Israeli annexation of Judea and Samaria as the biblical and practical path to peace, the writer states.

Why Israel should annex the West Bank, but doesn't need to do so yet - opinion

Anyone with even the most superficial understanding of the conflict knows that a Palestinian state has never been further from coming to fruition than today.

THE UN General Assembly adopts a resolution endorsing the ‘New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution,’ earlier this month

Ahed Tamimi let her mask slip when showing true intention of 'fighting Jews, not Zionism' - opinion

Tamimi highlighted her belief that “Judaism is an occupation,” and that is how the religion should always be presented to Palestinian children. “We are fighting Jews, not Zionism,” she went on.

AHED TAMIMI, walking with her mother in Ramallah, is free after her release in a hostages-prisoners swap between Hamas and Israel in November 2023. ‘Palestinians are fighting Jews, not only Zionism,’ she declared.

If Palestinians could give up their lust for terror, Israel could know peace - opinion

It thrives on challenges and shows a resilience not seen throughout the world. These traits will carry the Jewish people through any difficulty they face.

MAHANEH YEHUDA last month: I dream of visiting the stalls of the shuk in Tehran instead of Iran firing missiles at the shuk in Jerusalem, says the writer.