Yoel Skolnick, at The Blogs

Jul 8, 2018, 10:29 PM

Khawalid is a beautiful town in the North of Israel. Its residents are Bedouin who serve in the IDF in addition to other vital aspects of Israeli public service. They are a few kilometers from a neighboring Kibbutz. The...

May 30, 2015, 11:23 PM

Will Hillary Clinton miss an Opportunity?

President Obama has already demonstrated that he does not understand the Middle East and that his moral GPS has “gone south” with regard to his recent statement to Iranian leaders stating that the fact that they are anti-semitic doesn't...

May 3, 2015, 7:00 PM

Obama and Iran: Not the right mix

As the negotiations between President Obama and Iran gather momentum I experience a combination of bewilderment, disappointment and grave concern. The Iranians are expert negotiators with strategic, long term thinking and patience. Even from the perspective of the casual...

Apr 5, 2015, 4:37 PM

The Discomforts of a (previous) Obama Supporter

I voted for Mr. Obama primarily because I wanted a secure health care system, an energy policy that relied less on fossil fuels, investment in infrastructure, regulation of the “finance kingdoms," and somewhere between a belief and a hope...

About Me

I made Aliya to Israel in my early 20s. After working for two years as a Social Worker in Jaffa and Lod i moved to Kibbutz Kissufim with my wife where our first child was born. I served in the IDF as a Mental Health Officer and later Patrolling near the border with Egypt. Our family represented the United Kibbutz movement in New York for two years and then returned to our Kibbutz. We now live in the United States where I have worked in the field of mental health and as CEO of a Public Health Hospital.