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Mar 16, 2015, 6:30 AM

Israel’s leadership quandary

On June 7, 1981, eight Israeli fighter aircraft took off for Iraq in order to destroy Saddam Hussein’s Osirak nuclear reactor. Within less than an hour they had crossed 1,200 miles over the vast Jordan desert into Iraqi airspace (flying...

Nov 20, 2014, 5:27 PM

When nothing works

Following the shocking murder of four civilians and one Druze police officer at the hands of two East Jerusalem Arabs Tuesday, TOI editor-in-chief David Horovitz wrote a passionate article that affirmed the enduring Israeli spirit in the face of tragedy, and emphasized...

Aug 27, 2013, 6:00 PM

Don’t count on Turkey

Recep Erdogan's harsh anti-Assad rhetoric is all talk, and when push comes to shove, Turkey will sit this one out

Mar 28, 2013, 5:13 PM

An army of all the people, for all the people

My IDF service made me into an Israeli -- will the experience become the norm for all citizens?

Oct 25, 2012, 1:48 PM

Talking Turkey – Why Israel won’t recognize the Kurds

Henry Kissinger famously said that in the world of diplomacy, "We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing." This is what Dr. David Altman fails to appreciate in his article "Forget Turkey; Israel must take up the Kurdish cause,"...

Aug 19, 2012, 2:20 PM

Turkish Travels IV: Memory, museums, and bombs

There are many lessons that Israelis can take away from the Turkish model, but if we indeed wish to improve our political and social reality, it is critical to take Orhan Pamuk and his message to heart

Jul 31, 2012, 5:36 PM

Turkish Travels III: Tisha B’Büyükada

Reading "The Book of Lamentations' with the endangered Jewish community of Istanbul

Jul 20, 2012, 5:11 PM

Turkish Travels II: The Syrian conundrum

Erdogan's decisions in the coming months will have a profound impact on the region -- Israel included

Jun 27, 2012, 8:25 AM

Turkish Travels I: A Summer in İstanbul

My goal over the next six weeks is to better understand Turkish society -- and hopefully the lessons in the Turkish narrative that we, as Israelis and Jews, can learn from

May 29, 2012, 4:22 AM

Requiem or resurrection: Two years to the Gaza Flotilla

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (photo credit: AP Photo/Yasin Bulbul)

Two years down the line, the issue of Gaza Flotilla must be resolved before the deep strategic partnership between Jerusalem and Ankara can once again set the tone

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About Me

Gabriel Mitchell is a PhD candidate in Government & International Affairs at Virginia Tech University and the Israel-Turkey Project Coordinator at Mitvim – the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies. Born in the United States, Gabriel moved to Israel in 2005. He writes regularly about events in Turkey and Israel and has been published in a number of newspapers and journals, including The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The New Republic, The American Interest, Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish Policy Quarterly, and The Washington Review of Turkish & Eurasian Affairs. Gabriel holds an MA in Political Science from Hebrew University and BA in European and Middle Eastern History from The Ohio State University.