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JNI / / By Yehuda Avner / / / / The Prime Ministers (Toby Press, March 2010) is one of the few firsthand accounts of Israel's prime ministers from the state's founding until the close of Menachem Begin’s career. Written in a clear and accessible fashion, Avner provides intimate portraits.. |
Ariel Harkham *As it appeared in Jerusalem Post 10/30/2011 / / It has been a few weeks since Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s powerful speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and Israelis are still wondering: Where do we go from here? In the aftermath of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s.. |
JNI Editorial / / The week after Muammar Qadaffi's brutal death, the West -- or at least the government and media which give it expression -- are still jubilant about the events in Libya. You have to wonder exactly why. For four decades, Western leaders shook Qadaffi's hand, and Western media outlets adored.. |
Raphael D. Harkham *As it appeared in the September 2011 issue of Israel Council on Foreign Relations / / The revolution in communication technologies has had a drastic and indelible / effect on politics. The advent of 24-hour news networks and the internet has / accorded the media a central role in the dissemination.. |
Ariel harkham As it apeared in the Jerusalem Post 08/24/2011 / / It is no coincidence that Rothschild Boulevard, one of the country’s busiest and poshest streets, has become the epicenter of its greatest social uprising. Rothschild was one of the first roads built in Israel. This boulevard was originally called.. |
JNI “Terror is Back” is the headline leading Israeli newspapers the day after a bus bombing hit Jerusalem near the Beit H’Uman conference center. The response among the Israeli public is a response of nerves – as it always has been. But along with the concern is a new anger, a disbelief that this is happening.. |
Ashley Rindsberg Ehud Barak has done it again. Like Sharon before him, and Yossi Lapid before him (as well as Yitzhak Peretz, Amir Peretz, Saadia Marciano, and even Ezer Weizman), Mr. Barak has set out to form a new political party. This time, however, the new party will succeed. This time, Barak must be thinking, that.. |
JNI The 2009 election saw the ascension of the "Right wing" party-bloc, with Likud, Yisrael Beitenu, Shas, United Torah Judaism, National Union, and Bayit Hayehudi receiving 60% of the Jewish vote.1 Approximately 13% voted for parties of the Zionist Left. At the same time, statistics, studies,.. |
Beth Lasitter Benjamin Netanyahu has been at the helm of the Israeli government for just over a year and has made some significant decisions thus far, but has yet to make that momentous decision that will define his premiership. So far, Netanyahu’s decisions have either been ones that mitigate the damage done.. |
Benjamin Yokneam / Autopsy is an important part of the medical process. Understanding how a patient died is a matter of official record-keeping and can play a critical part in attributing culpability for the death, if it exists. The autopsy can also help the science move forward, providing clues and new cases of how.. |
Steven Karatt Obama's healthcare reform has given Netanyahu a strategic trump card in the campaign against Iranian nukes. |
David Jacobs “The Israelis practice Nazi tactics against the Palestinian people” / The allegations by Palestinians accusing Israel of Nazi tactics are disgraceful and slanderous. Appealing to peoples’ emotions by invoking the six million Jews pushed into ovens and gassed in chambers, and comparing that to the Palestinians’.. |
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