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Apr 21, 2026, 5:51 PM

A thriving Diaspora is not a failure of Zionism

Celebrants march in the 2025 Israel Day Parade, on New York's Fifth Avenue, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Israel does not need all Jews to live in the same place. It needs them to be strong, and connected by identity and a sense of shared purpose

Mar 2, 2026, 12:58 AM

The Jewish people are cracking at the Western Wall

Rendering Diaspora Jews unwelcome at Judaism’s holiest site, deepens a dangerous rift that, if not halted now, will become a lasting fracture within the Jewish people

Dec 17, 2025, 1:03 PM

I’m done hoping for Haredi enlistment

Ultra-Orthodox rabbis, including Degel HaTorah party spiritual leader Rabbi Dov Lando, attend a rally against the arrest of draft-dodging yeshiva students outside of the military prison at Beit Lid, August 14, 2025. (Sam Sokol/The Times of Israel)

After years of fruitless discussions, I believed October 7 would move ultra-Orthodox leaders to see Israel’s need. It didn’t, and now the state must act decisively

May 26, 2021, 11:49 AM

The rockets stopped flying. What do we do next?

A view of Efrat in February 2021 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Settlers like me have an alternative to the two-state solution: Let’s start by learning to live with our Palestinian neighbors

Sep 28, 2017, 8:42 PM

50 years on: It’s time to apply the law

Has Israel forgotten the Levy Report that carefully refines the legal status of West Bank Jews and Arabs?

Mar 23, 2017, 5:50 PM

If we aren’t the obstacle, we might be the solution

Israelis and Palestinians are colleagues and friends across industrial zones in Judea and Samaria -- coexistence is a given

Nov 10, 2016, 1:56 PM

Come Together, Right Now!

While many Israelis are ecstatic about the Trump victory, we can’t ignore that the vast majority of American Jews voted for Clinton. In Washington and Jerusalem responsible leadership and sensitivity is needed to mend the rifts and move forward....

Nov 8, 2016, 12:04 PM

Good neighbors make peace

A few weeks have passed since I received a phone call from an Arab Mukhtar who lives in the Bethlehem area. He asked to visit my Sukkah in Efrat together with dozens of dignitaries, including mukhtars and sheikhs from...

Sep 29, 2016, 12:18 PM

It’s time to recalculate the route

As the saying goes, if you do what you did, you’ll get what you got. Government ministries and social and political organizations have been engaged in intense preparations for the new year of 5777, a year in which Israel will...

Jul 28, 2016, 11:21 AM

Beyond the lines

The YESHA Council of Judea & Samaria's new foreign desk will work to win hearts and minds on the world stage

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About Me

Oded Revivi is CEO of ANU Museum of the Jewish People and a colonel in the reserves. From 2008 to 2024 he served as the head of the Efrat local council.