Yonatan Knickerbocker

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Aug 12, 2014, 4:31 PM

Cease fire or completion?

Things are quiet today. Quiet in Gaza, quiet in Israel and quiet in the Israeli cabinet meeting. Prime Minister Netanyahu cancelled the scheduled cabinet meeting today. Was it cancelled so information on the progress of the cease fire talks...

Jul 1, 2014, 3:37 PM

We lost three sons while our government fiddled

How can it be? Three wonderful souls, dragged out of our reality and brutally killed. The pain, the anguish - how can their Mothers even begin to bear it? It is unfathomable. All the anger, all the sadness, how...

Apr 23, 2014, 4:20 PM

A plea to the peace crowd

The tragedies that befall us on a continual basis are hard to endure. Each one straining on my heart in a way it never did when I lived in the US, with the exception of 9/11. Each and every...

Dec 24, 2013, 11:46 PM

A message to our government

I’m not going to hold back on this post. There’s been way too much pretending and looking the other direction for far too long now. While PM Netanyahu hasn’t made the outlandish offers that PM Barak and PM Olmert...

Dec 18, 2013, 1:09 PM

Where’s our democracy?

Things have gone quiet in the media concerning the negotiations with the PA and that usually means bad things are happening. It’s time to have a conversation about our nation and its supposed Jewish and democratic values that the...

Nov 22, 2013, 10:30 AM

My opening salvo

I took a while considering what topic my first blog post on the Times of Israel should be. After all, there are a million things that need addressing and I’m determined to address them. I’ve been a long time...

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About Me

Made aliyah in 2009 - check. Children are marrying Sabras - check. Beautiful grandchildren - check. Convincing Jews to rely on God rather than the US / EU / UN - work in progress...