Pushing back against claims that the alternative to the current nuclear negotiation framework with Iran is war, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon argued in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post that the protocols announced last week actually make war more likely. As Israel’s minister of defense, as a former Israel...

Braving a biting late spring wind, hundreds of people turned out for the March 30 grand opening of the city’s new urban nature park at Gazelle Valley – the only one of its kind in Israel. Bordered on all sides by major traffic thoroughfares and dense residential housing, Gazelle Valley...

A nuclear deal that frees Iran from sanctions but doesn’t address its destabilizing behavior in the Middle East “risks empowering Iran’s hegemonic efforts,” former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz argued in an op-ed (Google link) published today in The Wall Street Journal. Kissinger and Shultz noted that,...

The understandings reached last week regarding Iran’s nuclear program are full of loopholes, according to a paper (.pdf) written yesterday for Harvard’s Belfer Center by Dr. Ephraim Asculai, who worked for the Israel Atomic Energy Commission and is currently a senior research fellow for Israel’s Institute of National Security Studies. Asculai pointed to...

Since 1987, Israeli adults with visual disabilities have been enjoying lawn bowls – an outdoor sport played with a one-kilo ball aimed toward a target – as part of the all-volunteer Israel Lawn Bowls Association for the Blind. “Among sports for the blind, lawn bowls has the largest number of...

In an interview with NPR, President Barack Obama acknowledged that at the end of the nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran, Iran’s breakout time – the time it would take to produce enough fissile material to fuel a nuclear bomb – would be “near zero,” the Associated Press (AP) reported today....