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Jun 14, 2026, 5:31 PM

Lebanon: The Never-Ending Story

Freedom is not free. Photo©️ Tuvia Book, 2026

Thirty-seven years ago, a slightly skinnier version of myself entered the Israeli Security Zone in South Lebanon with my Givati platoon. As the platoon's combat medic, I carried my weapon, helmet, flak jacket, tactical vest, ammunition, grenades, medical equipment,...

Jun 10, 2026, 4:09 AM

Inches to Metric: Creating Mercaz Lavi – PTSD Center

Our team. Photo Beth Kopin

Our buddy Elie Spivack (co- founder of Mercaz Lavi) came to us four years ago. He was a distinguished combat engineer suffering from PTSD, (post traumatic stress disorder). We did not know it at the time. All we knew...

Jun 6, 2026, 9:44 PM

The Lebanon Conflict: Roots Many Americans Forget

Nearly fifty years ago, I crossed into Lebanon as part of Operation Litani, the first large-scale Israeli incursion into the country. At the time, I was a young soldier. Like most Israelis, I knew Lebanon was formally at war...

Genine Gita Barel

Jun 3, 2026, 5:12 AM

Returning to Life in a War Zone

I returned to Israel a week ago from a family simcha in New York. During my stay I deliberately kept away from news, focusing instead on enjoying the culture and shopping destinations of my New York City hometown, and reuniting...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 1, 2026, 8:03 AM

Macron’s Beaufort Blunder Reveals European Decline

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech next to the submarine 'Le Temeraire' (The Temerarious) at the Nuclear submarines Navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, Monday March 2, 2026. (Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron declared on May 29, 2026, that “nothing justifies the Israeli strikes conducted in southern Lebanon.” He called Israel’s operations unacceptable under international law. Forty-eight hours later, the Israel Defense Forces seized Beaufort Castle and the...

Michael J. Lewis

May 25, 2026, 7:14 PM

Flashback Half-a-Century: Saying Goodbye to ‘My’ Kibbutz (Kfar Blum) – A Homage!

Personal photos of Kibbutz Kfar Blum taken by the author

50 years ago to-the-day - ”On This Day” in May 1976 - I left the Kibbutz where I had spent almost two, personally-transformative, years as a volunteer: Kibbutz Kfar Blum in the Upper Galilee alongside the Jordan River with...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 25, 2026, 7:27 AM

Hezbollah’s Criminal Infrastructure Inside Israel

A Hezbollah supporter waves a flag with the portrait of the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a protest against the Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, in front the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah has weaponized segments of northern Israel’s criminal underworld, converting it into a durable instrument of Iranian hybrid warfare. What began as cross-border narcotics smuggling has matured into a sophisticated, multi-layered apparatus for drug trafficking, intelligence collection, weapons smuggling,...

May 24, 2026, 7:04 PM

Hormuz: Trump’s Achilles’ heel

Contrary to popular belief, chess was not invented in Persia but in India. Yet the modern game we know today - with its rules and strategic depth - was refined and popularized in Persia after arriving from India in...

May 7, 2026, 10:38 PM

Healing the War-Torn North by Building its Future

Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in Safed. Photo courtesy of Bar-Ilan University.

For two and a half years, life in Israel’s North has been anything but stable. Families have been uprooted, returned, and uprooted again—forced to live without any real sense of permanence. The latest escalation involving Iran and Hezbollah has...

May 2, 2026, 12:35 AM

GOP Leader Thune Delays as Trump Hesitates, IDF Constrained by Iran, Hezbollah

Image: An FPV drone guided by an optical fiber in Ukraine. Similar systems highlight emerging battlefield challenges that conventional responses struggle to address — while broader U.S. political and legal constraints may further limit operational flexibility. Photo: Efrem Lukatsky / AP

Israel is operating in the north within a complex strategic bind — one that stems not only from the Lebanese arena, but also from political and constitutional constraints in the United States. Since the outbreak of hostilities on February 28,...

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