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Rachel Goldberg-Polin

Jan 23, 2025, 6:44 PM

The beginning of the end, and not the end

Released hostages (L-R) Doron Steinbrecher, Emily Damari and Romi Gonen reunite with their mothers shortly after returning to Israel after 471 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, January 19, 2025. (IDF)

The relief at the return of Romi, Emily and Doron does not relieve us from working to get each and every one of the remaining 94 hostages home

Tamar Sternthal

Jan 23, 2025, 3:49 PM

CBS is determined to redraw Israel’s map, facts be damned

Kfar Aza and other communities along the Gaza border (Google maps)

Why is the news outlet adopting the jargon of a group that makes no secret of its intention to annihilate the Jewish state?

Jan 22, 2025, 4:09 PM

The devil told me I won’t enter paradise

He also said non-Muslims are the enemy, but I find the real destructive force to be those who tout ignorance and divisiveness in slogans of religion

Jan 22, 2025, 3:00 PM

Why Israel must establish a military administration in Gaza

A member of security forces loyal to Hamas stands guard atop one of the trucks carrying humanitarian aid coming in from the Kerem Shalom border crossing in al-Shoka, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 21, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Who else can take charge of the Gaza Strip? The PA is too weak, international forces won't risk their people, and Hamas rule was a terrible idea

Steven Rosenberg

Jan 22, 2025, 2:08 AM

Harvard’s adoption of IHRA isn’t enough

Anti-Israel protesters gather in Harvard Yard at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 14, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

Measures that were agreed in the framework of Title VI lawsuits will not change an institutional culture that tolerates antisemitism

Jan 21, 2025, 4:33 PM

Don’t knock the Levin-Sa’ar plan, it’s a surrender in disguise

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (R) and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar attend a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on January 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The revised reform proposal caves in on the overhaul's key feature: total government control over judicial selection

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

Jan 21, 2025, 1:57 PM

We are still on miluim-reserve duty

After a week of holding it all together, I couldn’t wait for him to come from the army and take the next shift. Not that he was going to.

Menachem Rosensaft

Jan 21, 2025, 2:57 AM

Kudos to President Trump for making the Gaza ceasefire possible

Then former US president Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, July 26, 2024 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

I'm no Trump supporter, but if he hadn't read Netanyahu the riot act, the Israel-Hamas war would probably still be in full force.

Jan 20, 2025, 4:19 PM

He’s still at it: AIDS research pioneer who made Ethiopia healthier

Prof Zvi Bentwich receives a lifetime achievement award from the Society for International Development -- Israel branch, at the Design Terminal, Bat Yam, central Israel, January 13, 2025. (Ido Marom)

Zvi Bentwich got a lifetime achievement award from the Society for International Development. Here's why he so richly deserves the honor

Amichai Eliyahu

Jan 20, 2025, 4:18 PM

The unbearable price of freedom

FILE: Rescue forces and police at the scene of a suicide bombing attack in a crowded bus, at Shmuel HaNavi Neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel, on August 19, 2003, 23 people killed and over 130 wounded. Majdi Zatari, convicted of the bombing, is on the list of prisoners slated for release. (Flash90)

As a government minister opposed to this deal, I must state clearly: Releasing terrorists is a moral crisis that threatens Israel's security

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