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Mar 6, 2026, 6:30 AM

Please don’t add more weights on our shoulders

To hear statements from those close to us such as “Come on, you’ve given enough—now let others fight,” or “Why don’t the Haredim serve?”, does not help and is not relevant to the immediate challenges. Around the latest Iranian attack,...

Mar 5, 2026, 10:12 PM

This is the war of the free world

The removal of Ali Khamenei, the long-time supreme leader of Iran, marks a historic turning point. For decades, Khamenei stood at the apex of a regime that repressed its own citizens, financed terror across continents, and openly declared its...

Feb 18, 2026, 8:34 PM

The Super Bowl’s Ad Is a Problem

The Super Bowl’s New Antisemitism Ad could never work in Israel, where Jews are not with trimbeling knees, but rather have a strong back bone and oftentimes know how to use an M16A4. In Israel Jews are the majority....

Sep 18, 2025, 8:31 PM

If the horseshoe fits – wear it

The Smear Machine: How Conspiracy Theorists Turned Charlie Kirk’s Murder Into Another Attack on Israel Conspiracy theories aren’t about facts. They’re about blame. And when extremists go looking for a villain, they usually land on the same one: Israel. Since Charlie...

Jan 22, 2025, 7:37 AM

Fortune favors the bold? not for IDF reservists.

There are two types of people who won’t finish their academic degree. There are those who won’t finish because they’ve completed their mission in this world. They won’t finish anything else either. The truth is, there’s no need to pity...

Feb 8, 2023, 9:13 PM

‘You People’ against Jew People

Netflix’s YOU PEOPLE left a lump in my throat, and it wasn’t because of the romantic cliché of a couple that succeeds despite it all. For hours I was trying to figure out why I felt this way again...

Jan 13, 2021, 11:04 PM

Flag Ship or a Sunken Boat ?

There are not many issues that cause controversy between American Jewry and Jews in Israel quite like President Trump. While 99% of my Jewish friends from the United States move between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, I, like most...

Nov 2, 2020, 6:16 PM

A statement of ‘Thank You!’ is needed

We in Israel can only hope that whoever heads the strongest power in the world will always see Israel on a positive note, but for the meantime we should thank the most Pro-Israel President in history On November 3 I...

Nov 1, 2020, 6:52 PM

It’s not about Trump, Dummy!

American Jewry is coming out against Trump in an attempt to be accepted into a good place in the intersectionality discourse. And that's the whole story. In the United States, Jews tend to vote for the left by a large...

Sep 29, 2020, 10:44 PM

AOC’s Lack of awareness and the Israeli left

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known as ‘AOC’, decided not to attend a memorial event for Yitzhak Rabin. What surprised me the most was not her refusal, which can be understood coming from someone that knows absolutely nothing about the Middle East...

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Attorney Ran Bar-Yoshafat is an author, international speaker, Ran Bar-Yoshafat is an Israeli lawyer, historian, author, public thinker and an international speaker. He holds advanced degrees in law, business, and history, served over a decade as Deputy Director of the Kohelet Policy Forum - Israel's biggest conservative Think Tank.

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