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Dec 30, 2025, 5:03 AM

Ron Dermer’s Exit: A Warning for the Post-Bibi Era

For years, Ron Dermer was more than just an adviser; he was a strategic linchpin in Israeli diplomacy and one of Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s closest trusted aides. I had the privilege of hearing Dermer speak years ago in New...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Dec 21, 2025, 8:20 AM

Dermer’s Exit and Israel’s Strategic Vacuum

Ron Dermer was never a conventional diplomat; he was a force multiplier. American-born, Ivy-trained, and ideologically fluent in Washington’s grammar of power, Ron Dermer fused personal trust with state authority and converted access into leverage. He understood something most...

Dec 11, 2025, 3:58 AM

Next Mission of Israel’s 180 Ambassadors: Moral Diplomacy in a Fractured World

FM Gideon Saar-speaks to journalists as Israeli Amba to the UN Danny Danon looks on ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the hostages and the Gaza war at the UN hq on August 5 2025 in NYC...

Aug 20, 2025, 8:11 AM

A Reflection: August 17, 2005

Twenty years. Twenty years since the unilateral and complete removal of every Israeli and Jew, both residents and army personnel, from every one of the 21 yishuvim, towns, farms, and communities in the entire Gaza Strip. Twenty years since...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

May 2, 2025, 7:50 AM

Israel’s Election Campaign Just Started (Here’s How and Why)

You most probably read the headline right here in The Times of Israel three days ago but weren’t aware of its electoral import. So here it is again: Dermer predicts war will be over in a year, regional peace...

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