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Jun 27, 2016, 12:15 PM

Book Review for “The New Entrepreneurz”

Entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship image via Shutterstock)

Utilizing their vast experience in business and coaching, Ronen Gafni and Simcha Gluckthey, the partners and founders of the FreshBiz board game, outline the basic fundamentals for a more meaningful and enjoyable life as entrepreneurs in their easy to read and inspiring work

May 5, 2016, 8:42 AM

Book Review for “God and Politics in Esther”

Ever since the inclusion of the book of Esther in the biblical canon two thousand years ago, there have been those who have asked what place such a work can have in the Bible at all. Their question must...

Apr 12, 2016, 10:11 AM

The Arab-Israeli conflict: time to move on

As a result of the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 roughly 800,000 Jews were expelled from various Arab countries in which they had been living for generations. Consequently they were forced, like millions of other refugees...

Jan 14, 2015, 10:46 AM

Book Review for “The Victory of Zionism”

The Victory of Zionism by Emmanuel Navon is a collection of articles written by Navon over the course of fours years from 2010 to 2014. Navon, the Director of the Political Science and Communications Department at the Jerusalem Orthodox...

Nov 27, 2014, 1:26 PM

Book Review for Al-Dura: Long Range Ballistic Myth

On September 20, 2000, a day after Yasser Arafat launched his war of terror, euphemized as the al-Aqsa intifada, state-owned France 2 Television broadcast a news report, filmed by a Palestinian cameraman, of the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old...

Nov 19, 2014, 2:58 PM

The Status Quo Myth

With tensions still high in Jerusalem and throughout the rest of Israel, the latest buzzword being bantered around the regional and international media is "status quo". More specifically, Israel is accused by the Arabs and their supporters of trying...

Nov 6, 2014, 2:45 PM

The Battle for Jerusalem

Months of constant Arab rioting on the Temple Mount and throughout the eastern parts of the city, as well as a spate of recent terrorist attacks, all point to the undeniable fact that the battle for Jerusalem has begun. Although...

Aug 31, 2014, 12:34 PM

Unlike Hamas, the Israeli leadership lacks the strength of faith to prevail

Aug 3, 2014, 7:43 PM

Food For Thought: Gaza Rockets

If every one of the roughly 2,000 rockets launched from Gaza in the current conflict had killed at least one Israeli, something clearly possible since we’re not talking about firecrackers, would the world still have criticized Israel for responding...

Aug 3, 2014, 8:02 AM

Temple Mount Event in Tel Aviv – Brief Summary

The following is a brief summary of a recent event on the subject of the Temple Mount that I organized (together with the Tel Aviv International Salon) in Tel Aviv: In answer to several inquiries that I received, the event...

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About Me

Yoel Meltzer is a freelance writer with an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from New York University. A former New Yorker, he moved to Israel in 1996 and currently lives with his wife and four children in Jerusalem. He can be contacted at yoelmeltzer@gmail.com.