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Chaim Silberstein

Founder and President of Jerusalem Center for Applied Policy

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Jun 25, 2025, 7:02 PM

Stop the distortion: What’s really happening in East Jerusalem

A recent article in the Times of Israel titled “With few shelters but plenty of roadblocks, East Jerusalem Arabs squeezed by war” paints a dramatically misleading picture of life in Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods during the current conflict. While it...

Feb 5, 2022, 1:15 PM

Is the European Union serious?

In a statement that seems to not have been reviewed before being issued, the EU declared without qualification that Israeli evictions of illegal Arab squatters on Jewish-owned property and demolitions of illegal structures on public land are "illegal under...

Jan 1, 2022, 11:41 PM

Top Christians Blame Israel not Muslims for woes

As some Christian leaders in Israel and around the world blame Jews for diminishing Christian numbers in the Holy Land, the true culprit – hostile Muslims – goes unnamed. Fact: The 2016 killing of a gorilla in Cincinnati received six times...

Aug 26, 2021, 5:06 PM

10 Reasons NOT to Reopen US Consulate in Jerusalem

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett must make it clear to President Joe Biden that Israel will not allow the U.S. to reopen its Jerusalem consulate. By Chaim Silberstein and Hillel Fendel Keep Jerusalem With Prime Minister Bennett set to meet with US...

Jul 11, 2021, 1:25 PM

Does Israeli Law Play Favorites In Sheikh Jarrah?

Sheikh Jarrah has been very much the talk of the town of late, but is replete with sketchy details and vagueness. Many do not know if this Jerusalem neighborhood is actually Jewish or Arab, why it is in dispute,...

Dec 19, 2019, 12:06 PM

When terror became personal for me

My daughter Shira, just before she and her husband, Amichai Ish Ran, hold a news conference at the Shaarei Zedek Medical Center, a week after being injured in a West Bank terror attack, December 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

My daughter survived an anti-Semitic terror attack last year. Here’s what I want the Jersey City survivors to know

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About Me

Chaim Silberstein made Aliyah from South Africa over 45 years ago and is a graduate of Hebrew University with MBA, and of Yeshivat Beit El. He was a combat Medic in the IDF and worked in High Tech, Real Estate and Government in senior positions. He is currently founder and President of JCAP - Jerusalem Center for Applied Policy, a research and policy organization dedicated to a united, secure and prosperous Jerusalem. He is a resident of Beit El and is married to Liora, blessed with 7 children and is an avid squash player

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