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Mar 24, 2020, 8:19 PM

Gantz Backers: Is the Joint List Really OK With You?

Back on February 11, Benny Gantz ruled out including the Joint List in a coalition, saying: “I am not afraid to speak to any legitimate political party, but the Joint List will not be part of the government I...

Nov 18, 2018, 8:44 PM

The real rift between Israel and American Jewry

I was reading the other day where Brian Hook, the Trump administration’s point man on Iran, said among other things that “Now…we are in a position to really go after all the revenue streams Iran uses to fund Hamas...

Nov 27, 2017, 7:44 PM

Four things we know by now about Jews and Israel

1. For all of Zion's centrality in Jewish history, religion, and culture, Jews living outside of it in reasonable circumstances rarely want to live in it. We know this because, in the modern era, from the beginnings of practical Zionism...

Nov 11, 2017, 9:31 PM

The allegations in the Bibi-hunt: Spine-chilling stuff

A report on Channel 10—a known stronghold of Bibi-animosity—claims that senior law enforcement officials have concluded there is sufficient evidence to file an indictment against on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust…. The report quoted an unofficial...

Sep 12, 2017, 8:19 AM

Would you make a film like Foxtrot?

I haven’t seen Samuel Maoz’s film Foxtrot, which has won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and will presumably go on to win more prizes and be shown around the world. It would probably be too...

Aug 10, 2017, 9:40 AM

Progressives seek Israel’s demise

It’s reported that an Israeli nonprofit called Innovation: Africa is: bringing drip irrigation and solar power technologies to villages in eight African countries and lifting millions of people out of extreme poverty... Some 620 million people across the African continent do...

Aug 2, 2017, 9:39 AM

A primer for Netanyahu-haters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 11, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

How not to let facts disturb your absolute certainty the prime minister can do nothing right

May 22, 2016, 5:54 PM

Top Israeli Leaders Do Israel-Haters’ Work for Them

What a month it’s been. On May 4, Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan said: It’s scary to see horrifying develop-ments that took place in Europe begin to unfold here. If there is one thing...

May 15, 2016, 10:46 AM

Looking back in sadness at America

A column on May 10 by Dennis Prager, the American Jewish conservative talk-show host, commentator, and author, asks how a candidate like Donald Trump could have emerged as the clear frontrunner among ostensibly conservative voters. As well as displaying appalling...

May 3, 2016, 2:23 PM

Jews are exposed to human nature at its worst

To be Jewish is to be all too cognizant of human nature at its most appalling. The Jews are not, of course, the only people to have been subjected to a genocide. But the genocide directed at the Jews...

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About Me

P. David Hornik is a freelance writer and translator in Beersheva. His work has appeared on PJ Media, National Review, New English Review, American Spectator, Frontpage Magazine, American Thinker, the Jerusalem Post, Ynetnews, Israel National News, Moment, and elsewhere. Among his books are Choosing Life in Israel (Freedom Press International, 2013), which was called "a skillful blend of political and personal reportage, beautifully and informatively written, and a must-read for anyone who cares about this beleaguered country"; and the novel Beside the Still Waters, published by Adelaide Books in 2019.