Yishai Edberg, at The Blogs

Nov 8, 2022, 6:36 PM

Yehuda and Yosef: A Response to HaRav Todd Berman

Rav Todd Berman of Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi and frequent Times of Israel columnist took pen to paper recently attacking Religious Zionism. Rav Berman decried Religious Zionism as hateful, a carrier of various ists and isms, and a departure from...

Sep 18, 2022, 6:36 PM

Bennett-Lapid’s Biggest Mistake

The biggest mistake the Bennett-Lapid coalition made in its year of governance was not lowering the electoral threshold. The electoral threshold is the percentage of votes a party must receive in order to secure representation in the Knesset. From...

Aug 22, 2022, 11:34 PM

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Gambit

Freshman lawmaker and Otzmah Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir has announced his intention to run independently from the Religious Zionism join list. This divorce between Otzmah Yehudit and Bezalel Smotrich’s faction Religious Zionism could yield more mandates for both parties,...

Jun 29, 2022, 6:50 PM

Why You Should Read Avraham Stern’s Poetry

Is there any one man uniquely responsible for the creation of the modern State of Israel? Some popular answers may be Theodore Herzl, David Ben-Gurion, or Ze’ev Jabotinsky. More studied individuals may give answers like Max Nordau, Ber Borochov,...

May 3, 2022, 1:02 AM

They Are “Just Against Israel”

Students at Harvard University erected an “Apartheid Wall” on the first night of Passover this year. The display stood for the duration of the holiday, adorned and accompanied by incitement against Jewish students. During this year's Festival of Freedom,...

Apr 19, 2022, 4:25 PM

Propaganda Bomb

Last week I published an article on the two-state solution, its history and results, its advocates and their justifications. Multiple readers were quick to comment that I omitted a certain rationale cited by Jewish advocates for the division, the...

Apr 13, 2022, 6:15 AM

Who Wants Two States?

Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid during a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on November 18, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90 *** Local Caption ***
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The “two-state solution” is truly the syphilis of the Middle East. It has come and gone over the past century leaving ugly sores, rashes of disorder and instability, and structural damage to the region with every flare-up. Clearly, the...

Apr 5, 2022, 5:10 AM

To Israel’s Enemies, it Doesn’t Matter

As Ramadan began this week, a controversial, Jewish Israeli political figure toured the religiously significant sites of Jerusalem. The enemies of Israel decried this trek in the strongest possible terms: the PA called it a “provocative incursion,” Hamas called...

Mar 22, 2022, 12:36 PM

Zelenskyy is Not a Jewish Hero

It seems like Jewish organizations cannot bend over backward fast enough to praise Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who happens to be Jewish, as the Jewish hero of our time. While there is surely something admirable in leading a country...

Mar 1, 2022, 9:08 AM

Tear down those walls

Eretz Yisrael is an indivisible whole. It is internally indivisible, especially the biblical heartland, which stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River and the Negev Desert to the Litani River. It too is inseparable from Am and...

About Me

Yishai Edberg is a member of the Religious Zionist Party's youth wing. He has previously served as a spokesman and graphic designer for the Yamina Youth and has written for such publications as VISION Magazine, The Post Millennial, and The Israel Press. Jesse is a student at the Tulane University of Louisiana where he is pursuing a degree in political science. The Complete and Translated Poetic Works of Avraham Stern by Avraham Stern, translated with forward and footnotes by Yishai Edberg is available today on Amazon and where books are sold.

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