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May 24, 2024, 7:13 PM

The future peace will be built on strength

Thomas Friedman’s recent New York Times commentary, “Israel Has a Choice to Make: Rafah or Riyadh,” is remarkable in its oversimplification of a complex reality as well as in the lip-service it pays to Israel’s security needs. With many thousands of Hamas...

Jun 6, 2023, 5:54 PM

The time to incentivize Haredi higher education has arrived

The common refrain around Haredi employment in Israel goes like this. Haredi education does not teach science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects, nor English. As such, it fails to prepare its graduates to matriculate, succeed in the psychometric...

Oct 30, 2014, 3:31 PM

What Kind of Week It’s Been

It's been a week jam packed with bad-news headlines here in Israel. On the security front: A week and a day ago, a Palestinian man with multiple ties to Hamas, was killed by the Israel National Police. Shot as he...

Jul 1, 2014, 12:34 AM

Why we cry together with our heads held high

We hold our loved ones tighter tonight. Some of us cry outwardly; we're all crying inwardly. The devastation tightens our resolve. Some of us call out for justice; some of us call out for peace. None of us call...

Sep 7, 2013, 10:17 PM

A Call to Action

Fellow US citizens: I've lobbied my lawmakers. I now need your help as our nation stands at a precipice. Over a year ago, President Obama said publicly that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would be regarded as a red...

Jul 31, 2012, 5:04 PM

Missing the point of Tisha B’Av

Over Shabbat, I came across two very distressing sets of comments. The first was published in Haaretz’s Opinion & Comment section (B4, July 27, 2012). In the piece, titled “Tishah B’Av as the Jewish Nakba,” Steven Klein equated the millennia-old...

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About Me

Daniel “Doni” Fogel is the Vice President of the Jerusalem College of Technology. He previously held leadership roles at AIPAC and the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, Virginia, where he worked regularly with community leaders, Israeli government ministers and Knesset members, Congress members, and the foreign diplomatic corps.