In her deeply personal account of  living in Israel’s most cosmopolitan city, Getting Home: Young Anglos Find Themselves in Transcendent Tel Aviv, Miranda Früm explains why the city draw her contemporaries and how it keeps them there. Tel Aviv is an island of lost toys—all of us from near and...

Writing at the Israeli business oriented website Globes today, Norman Bailey writes that the recent election of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India “looks promising for Israel.” Bailey, a professor at the University of Haifa, attributed Modi’s success as governor of India’s Gujarat state to reducing governmental interference in...

Israel’s left-leaning Haaretz on Monday quoted a Hamas source describing the terrorist organization’s vision going forward under a possible unity government: A Hamas source has said the model being planned for the new Palestinian unity government is that of Hezbollah in Lebanon, in which the organization is a government party that has...

Two recent reports demonstrate that Israel, far from being isolated, is expanding its economic and diplomatic ties around the world. On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet announced an initiative to boost its trade ties with Latin America, particularly with the nations of the Pacific Alliance. On Monday, Tel Aviv University and...

A gathering of lawyers and jurists at United Nations headquarters today is asking whether the U.N. body tasked with dealing with Palestinian refugees – UNRWA – is providing humanitarian relief or “prolonging the Palestinian refugee problem.” The issue is also addressed in this month’s edition of The Tower Magazine in an...

An Israeli news station has reported this morning on a poll conducted by Professor Sammy Smooha of Haifa University showing that the acceptance of Israel by Israeli Arabs increased markedly between 2012 and 2013. Channel 10/Nana reported (Hebrew) that the poll’s surprising results bucked conventional wisdom: The research shows that between 2012...