Azriel Bermant, at The Blogs

Jun 28, 2017, 11:26 AM

Chaim Weizmann, the guardian and the Balfour Declaration

The 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration is an opportune moment to revisit the role played by Chaim Weizmann in the historic pledge given by the British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild in November 1917. It was in White Russia as an...

Jan 22, 2013, 11:21 AM

How the Falklands analogy falls flat

In recent weeks, Israel’s Government has defied international opinion by insisting on its right to consolidate control over the large settlement blocs in the West Bank. Britain is only one of a number of countries that has criticized Israel’s approval of a university in the...

About Me

Azriel Bermant is currently a lecturer in International Relations at Tel Aviv University and a former research fellow at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies. His book, ‘Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East’ is out on Cambridge University Press.