Reichman University

February 2, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

This man is Israel’s face and voice to the Arabic-speaking world

Avichay Adraee is Israel’s face to the Arab world, as the country seeks to confront Hamas lies with truth.

January 30, 2024 | David Daoud |

The Israel Air Force bombed a Hezbollah’s airstrip in Lebanon. Here’s what’s known about it.

On January 24, the Israel Defense Forces announced that Israeli warplanes had struck – among other targets, as part of the clashes ongoing between Israel and Hezbollah since October 8 – “a...

January 25, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israeli strikes in Lebanon deepen after Hezbollah drone attack

The Israel Defense Forces carried out strikes deeper than usual inside Lebanon following a Hezbollah drones attack on Israel on January 25. One Hezbollah UAV fell near Kfar Blum in northern Israel, southeast...

September 11, 2023 | |

Iran Building Airport in Lebanon Just Miles from Israeli Border

Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant announced on September 11 that Iran was building an airport in Lebanon a mere 12 miles from the Israeli border. Gallant disclosed the news...

September 11, 2023 | |

Israel, Partners Foiled 27 Iranian Terror Plots in Last Year 

Latest Developments  Israel’s intelligence services and their foreign partners have foiled 27 Iranian-orchestrated terrorist plots over the last year, Mossad director David Barnea revealed on...

June 22, 2023 | |

Hezbollah Establishes Armed Posts in Israeli Territory  

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah has established military posts on Mount Dov inside sovereign Israeli territory at the border with Lebanon, a discussion in the Israeli parliament’s Foreign...

November 22, 2022 | Shany Mor |

Capital Offense: International Norms On Jerusalem Are A Mess

In recent weeks the topic of recognizing Israel’s capital in Jerusalem and the question of why nearly all embassies are located in Tel Aviv was big news in the UK and Australia. On cue, a broad...

October 6, 2022 | Shany Mor |

Israel-EU annual meeting after decade hiatus

Israel and the European Union held an Association Council meeting for the first time in a decade. How did Israel change in that time, and how did it affect the EU-Israel relationship?

August 15, 2022 | Shany Mor |

Israel Is Learning a Better Way to Deal with Gaza

Israel’s actions in the recent Gaza flare-up show just how valuable self-correction can be. On every dimension, its performance was at least slightly improved.

July 6, 2022 | Shany Mor |

War Has Consequences: 20-Year Scars of The Second Intifada

For most Jews, Passover means a festive meal, a Seder (or two) with family and close friends, eating matzah and retelling the story of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery into freedom. For...

April 21, 2022 | Shany Mor |

How Israel’s Minority Government Can Stay in Power

The loss of a majority in the parliament is a damaging setback for both Bennett and Lapid. However, it is still too soon to count either of them out.

March 4, 2022 | Shany Mor |

Biden’s Bold Gamble Might Just Save Ukraine

The Ukraine War is only a week old, so it’s far too soon to make any judgements about its outcome. One thing is clear, though: Russian President Vladimir Putin badly miscalculated. He is facing...

June 14, 2021 | Shany Mor |

Israel’s New Government Is a Rebuke of Left-Wing Nonsense

It’s impossible to say whether Israel’s new government will fail or succeed, whether it will long endure or fall apart, and whether its first steps this week will come to be seen as a dramatic...

May 19, 2021 | Shany Mor |

America’s Foreign Policy ‘Experts’ Are Projecting Their Own Failures Onto Jared Kushner

For the past four years, there was no greater laughingstock in the American foreign policy cognoscenti than Jared Kushner. A full-on consensus reigned that cast the previous administration’s Middle...

May 15, 2021 | Shany Mor |

Why Israel erupted

Distorted narratives about Arab evictions have become a proxy for the entire conflict

December 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian Kurds Join the Fight

Co-written by Jonathan Spyer The instability that has swept over the Middle East over the past half-decade has its winners and its losers. For the most part, the much-...

November 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Will France Invoke NATO’s Article 5 to Declare War on Islamic State?

To confront comprehensively the Islamic State terrorist attacks on French soil, there have been calls for France’s President François Hollande to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty,...

October 6, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Druze Clues

Co-written by Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi The market for extremism has been so disrupted by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIS) and its penchant for extraordinary...

July 23, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Iran Nuclear Agreement Won’t Improve Human Rights

The euphoria surrounding the agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear weapons program last week has not altered the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic. “The...

November 28, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Is the Price of Watermelons Relevant to Iran’s Nuclear Crisis?

The founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, famously said the 1979 Islamic Revolution was “not about the price of watermelons.” To parse...