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May 30, 2026, 5:15 PM

From Jerusalem via the Judean Desert to the Dead Sea: Turning Sewage into Energy

From Sewage to Energy: The Restoration of the Kidron Valley Brings Life Back to the Desert. About eight years ago, a capstone project I supervised at the Faculty of Management at Ben-Gurion University won first prize in the university’s “Green...

Kostis Konstantinou

May 26, 2026, 12:00 AM

The Palace Politics of a Failed Authority

Palestinians have gone through another electoral exercise that was not, in any democratic sense, an election. They have not chosen a president since 2005, nor held parliamentary elections since 2006, when the terrorist organization Hamas won at the polls and,...

Justine Johnston Hemmestad

May 6, 2026, 1:01 AM

By The Nameless One (my good friend in Israel who would rather me not publish his name, but from whom I get an insider’s account of what’s really happening) Iran The “Roaring Lion / Epic Fury” operation by Israel and the...

May 5, 2026, 5:29 PM

Ein Breira: There is no other choice

Palestinian Prime minister Mohammed Mustafa, center, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, right, speak to Saudi's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, during the Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance the Humanitarian Response in Gaza, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Why the path towards security goes through Palestinian self-determination A year ago today, most of us would have never imagined Israeli pilots could fly freely in the skies of Tehran. Most of us – and most of the world –...

May 5, 2026, 1:23 PM

For God’s sake, don’t buy another T-shirt!

"Those who love peace must organize as effectively as those who love war." Martin Luther King. Sounds easy, right? Well, I felt like I was going out of my mind last Thursday, at the conference for peace, held in the Tel...

Apr 23, 2026, 7:44 AM

Reality Cannot Be Renamed Away

There is something deeply unsettling about the casual way reality gets rewritten in the modern world, especially when it comes to Israel. You land at Ben Gurion Airport, stand in a country with a functioning government, a thriving economy,...

Apr 12, 2026, 12:38 PM

Refuse Peace With Israel, Expect Consequences

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk(AI)

Israel Stands While the World Looks Away After the so-called deal of the century was revealed years ago, there was a brief moment when hope felt real again. It was almost tangible. Finally there was a chance, a serious one,...

Michael Savvakis

Apr 5, 2026, 5:16 PM

PA Names New Public Hall after a pro-Nazi Jihadi

The ‘moderate’ Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas recently provided yet another reason to distrust the PA. The PA has recently “built and named a public hall after Al-Husseini.” Not only that, but Abbas reportedly was the one...

Apr 3, 2026, 11:34 AM

Israel’s new death penalty law is not racist

The aftermath of a terrorist attack at a gas station near Ariel, in the West Bank, on November 15, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90 / via Times of Israel)

The new “Death Penalty for Terrorists” law passed by the Israeli legislature is not ethnicity-based. The new law raises serious moral and legal questions, but describing it as inherently racist mischaracterizes its structure, which is based on citizenship status...

Menachem Rosensaft

Apr 1, 2026, 4:56 AM

Ben-Gvir’s death penalty law is an abomination

Just days before Pesach – Passover – when Jews around the world recite avadim hayinu, that we were once slaves in Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and 60 other Israeli parliamentarians saw fit...

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