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Aug 12, 2026, 9:36 PM

The Small Victories Saving Israel’s Nature Today, a response to Alon Tal

In a recent Times of Israel essay, one of Israel's pioneering environmental leaders, Alon Tal, offered a sobering assessment of the environmental record of Israel's current government. His conclusion was stark: after four years, he struggled to identify a...

Aug 11, 2026, 7:53 PM

Judean Desert: Are we Closer to Solving the Mystery of the Copper Scroll?

The Copper Scroll: From a Treasure List to a National Infrastructure Survey? 1. Introduction: The Hydraulic Paradigm Since its discovery at Qumran in 1952, the Copper Scroll (3Q15) has presented scholars with one of the most intriguing puzzles among the Dead...

Aug 10, 2026, 7:32 AM

What Does Peace Mean?

It was December 2024. I was rushing and click-clacking my heels in Downtown Miami with Mauricio Schneider, Bibas family uncle, while on the phone with another hostage family member who couldn't figure out how to get to our next...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 9, 2026, 1:07 PM

The Perfect Engineer

The Perfect Engineer Unravelling the Creation of God Through Biomimicry There is something wonderfully humbling about Velcro. In 1941, Swiss engineer George de Mestral returned from a walk to find burrs clinging stubbornly to his clothes and his dog’s fur. Most of...

Aug 6, 2026, 10:11 PM

Judean Desert: Did the Copper Scroll Preserve Ancient Water Projects?

The high-tech professionals of their time. In July, we published two articles here presenting a research hypothesis that may open the way for a reassessment of the ancient water systems at Ramat Rachel and in the Judean Desert. The hypothesis may...

Aug 4, 2026, 5:45 PM

EU diplomacy: Israel-Jordan water cooperation on Dead Sea and Red Sea on hold

The financial arrangements between Jordan and an international consortium for the construction of the Aqaba-Amman Water Desalination and Conveyance Project (AAWC) were recently finalized. Despite the project’s possible impact on the Red Sea, no formal consultation with Israel has...

Aug 4, 2026, 2:02 PM

A cold peace with Jordan isn’t enough

Israeli soldiers patrol in the tripoint border between Israel, Syria, and Jordan, northern Israel, on May 12, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash 90)

The Iran war proved that cooperation with Jordan is key to Israel's security. The next government should deepen ties through water, infrastructure and shared regional interests

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 3, 2026, 6:33 PM

CENTCOM: Here Are Some Ways to Pressure Iran

CENTCOM’s search for creative ways to pressure Iran exposes a strategic failure. Airstrikes destroy facilities and delay programs but seldom dismantle the mechanisms keeping the Islamic Republic solvent and cohesive. Tehran earns hard currency, reserves scarce resources for loyalists,...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Aug 3, 2026, 12:09 AM

Using our natural resources responsibly

In the Haftara for Parshat Re’eh (Yishayahu 54:16), we read the following words: Behold! I have created the smith who blows on a charcoal flame (esh pecham) and withdraws a tool for his labor, and I have created the destroyer...

Jul 26, 2026, 12:46 PM

The government that abandoned Israel’s environment

Garbage sullies the landscape of Israel's National Trail: Symbolic of the systemic environmental failure of Israel's present government.

The coalition's failures reach beyond security and democracy to the air, water, and climate policies that will shape Israel's future for generations

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