Jewish state

If these flags could talk - opinion

There is a prevailing narrative that Israel is alone, but that is not true.

AVI STUDENTS and stakeholders join for a flag-planting ceremony outside AVI headquarters in October 2024.
A DEMONSTRATOR holds an image of deceased Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a protest outside City Hall in Los Angeles, last week. The supreme leader thought he was invincible, but he was a lazy thinker, the writer notes.

Israel’s strategic independence: The transformation of Middle East politics - opinion

Armenian Orthodox worshippers arrive at the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, to celebrate Christmas and Epiphany, January 18, 2026

Patriarchs’ statement on Christian Zionism lacked pastoral care - opinon

San Francisco city supervisor Scott Wiener comments on a pilot program to permit private commuter buses to use public bus stops in San Francisco, California, January 21, 2014

After debate backlash, California Democrat Scott Wiener says Israel carried out 'genocide' in Gaza


Nation-State Law important part of forming Israel's constitution - opinion

These are essential things for the continuity of the Jewish people, but it seems that the public debate in Israel does not pay enough attention to these aspects.

SUPREME COURT President Esther Hayut arrives to petitions against the Jewish Nation-State Law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in December 2020.

Women of the Palmah: Hear their stories

The Palmah was the elite fighting unit of the Hagana, the underground army of the Jewish community in Israel during pre-state times.

YOCHEVED BEN-SHMUEL

Temple Mount reopens to Jews after weeks of clashes and unrest

The Temple Mount was originally closed to Jews on Jerusalem Day, following clashes between Arabs and Israeli police, and remained so throughout the Gaza violence in Operation Guardian of the Walls.

Jews visit Temple Mount after closure during Operation Guardian of the Walls.

An open letter to Naftali Bennett: Heal our country

Is this what we want for the country of the Jews? Where we just hate each other so much that we can’t even countenance living in the same space?

NAFTALI BENNETT, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Book Review: Conflicting visions for the State of Israel

As we celebrate Israel’s 73rd Independence Day, we are mindful that the State of Israel in 1948 was a dream fulfilled for Jews all over the world.

Rabbi Marc Rosenstein

How can this circus end while respecting the voters' verdict?

Middle Israel: This can’t go on. If this country is dragged to an election every half year, the Jewish state might decompose.

Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid confer at a party meeting

IDF urged to allow chametz on army bases during Passover

The letter to the Chief of Staff asks to ensure the supply of kosher food for Passover does not justify a ban on the holding of chametz by secular or non-Jews.

IDF SOLDIERS from the 669 Unit during a training exercise last year.

A Wall of Honor, Hope, and Heritage

Jewish National Fund-USA donor Bob Chertkof joins the Wall of Honor

JNF-USA’s Ammunition Hill Wall of Honor acknowledges past and present individuals who served their country’s armed services.

Dissension in the home; dissension in the homeland

Let there be no doubt that one day a majority of Palestinian Arabs will condemn the self-indulgent and corrupt Palestinian leadership for the crimes they are committing against their own people.

The author’s Zayde, Efraim Fishel Onrot, with son, Jacob, and grandson, Lee Atkins

The Jewish state: Zionism’s success, not its failure

Today, the old romanticized image of Israel, shaped more by Exodus the film than by Exodus, the biblical book, no longer gets much of a hearing.

ISRAEL’S FIRST prime minister David Ben-Gurion (center) stands under a portrait depicting Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, as he reads Israel’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv May 14, 1948.