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.
A PRO-PALESTINIAN protester holds a ‘Globalize the intifada’ sign near during an Anti-Israel protest in New York City, last year. The phrase is a call to expand the violence that killed thousands of Israelis in two terrorist uprisings and extend it worldwide against global Jewry, the writer says.

More cowardice than conviction: Pro-Palestinian activists’ spineless response to Oct. 7 - opinion

Pro-Palestinian protests worldwide following the October 7 massacre reveal a deep hypocrisy, as activists avoid real debate and accountability while glorifying violence.

MARCH 8, 2026
An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.

Myth that won’t die: The false link between settlements and Palestinian violence - opinion

Jews are not the instigators, motivators, or causes of Palestinian violence; the tragic cycle of violence and terrorism stems entirely from the Palestinians’ own choices.

FEBRUARY 21, 2026
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

Tel Aviv does not boast the long history cities like Jerusalem, Beersheba, or even 2,000-year-old Haifa. 

FEBRUARY 8, 2026

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

Cameron Kasky’s anti-Israel stance and secret West Bank trip drew backlash, raising questions about his leadership and judgment.

JANUARY 24, 2026
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.

Israel cannot negotiate with enemies who seek its destruction - opinion

Israel’s offers for peace are met with resistance, as many Palestinians prioritize the country’s destruction.

JANUARY 11, 2026
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.

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.

DECEMBER 28, 2025
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.

DECEMBER 17, 2025
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.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025
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.

NOVEMBER 16, 2025
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.

NOVEMBER 2, 2025
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.

OCTOBER 19, 2025
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.

OCTOBER 5, 2025
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.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2025
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