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Sep 17, 2026, 4:29 AM

We Chose Israel. Now Let’s Choose Its Future.

For too long, too many olim have watched Israeli politics from the sidelines. This election, we all need to get off the sidelines and get more involved. I made Aliyah from Chicago when I was 11 years old. More than three...

Sep 8, 2026, 7:59 PM

The Political Culture We Choose: The Case for Naftali Bennett

I support Naftali Bennett not because I think he's perfect, but because I believe he consistently models, and therefore incentivizes, the kind of political leadership Israel needs more of: unity over tribalism, substance over outrage, and problem-solving over point-scoring. –– It’s...

Sep 8, 2026, 3:26 PM

Team Bennett has what we desperately need — competence

Naftali Bennett presents his B'yachad slate (credit: Naftali Bennett's Facebook page)

Here's a word that has fallen out of fashion and, in Israeli government circles, out of practice too. "Competence." In Hebrew, it has more of a songlike ring — "יכולת" (yecholet) — but that still doesn't make the word...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 8, 2026, 1:38 PM

Israel Must Fight Turkey’s Maritime Aggression Now

Ankara’s revisionist foreign policy thrives on uncontested space, fed by a Western complacency that consistently ignores Turkish expansionism. This aggressive posture materialized in November 2019, when Turkey signed a maritime memorandum with Tripoli’s authorities, carving out a corridor across...

Sep 2, 2026, 9:01 PM

A New Chapter of Service

A New Chapter of Service - once again standing with Naftali Bennett and joining his mission to repair Israel. Thirty-one years ago, at the age of 11, I made Aliyah from Chicago with my family. Israel became not only my...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 24, 2026, 5:30 AM

Bennett and Liberman Must End the Palestinian Mess

Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman correctly reject diplomatic fantasy, but turning that rejection into hard-nosed architecture requires shattering the West’s favorite delusions. For decades, the archaic Israeli foreign policy establishment chased the mirage of a centralized Palestinian state, creating...

Aug 16, 2026, 4:37 PM

The Bennett Precedent: When Breaking Faith Becomes a Method of Government

To portray the Naftali Bennett episode as a mere exercise in political opportunism is to underestimate its significance. This was not simply a politician breaking a promise, switching camps, or placing personal ambition above loyalty to his voters. Bennett...

Aug 4, 2026, 2:39 PM

As Religious Zionism moves to the fringe, one politician stands to gain

Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich attends the Religious Zionism party primaries ahead of the upcoming Israeli general elections, in Jerusalem, July 26, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

The party's narrowing appeal could reshape the battle for Israel's religious-nationalist voters

Elkana Bar Eitan

Jul 29, 2026, 9:50 PM

Bennett Is Right: Israel Must Stop Pretending Qatar Is a Neutral Mediator

For years, Israel has treated Qatar as an unavoidable partner. Successive governments accepted its role as a mediator with Hamas. Western leaders praised its diplomatic efforts. International media portrayed it as a bridge between civilizations. But after October 7,...

Jul 26, 2026, 3:25 PM

Do Netanyahu’s Wartime Successes Make Up for October 7?

Netanyahu deserves significant credit for Israel’s wartime successes. But those successes don't prove that he was uniquely responsible for them and they don't erase the failures that led to October 7th and complicated the war that followed in its...

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