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May 30, 2026, 5:43 PM

It’s Time For A Change: Service Year In Merhavim

Beautiful sunset in Merhavim, my photo

Returning to Merhavim on Sunday after the Shavuot holiday, we all felt that the year was drawing to a close. For me, it will end a month earlier, since the school year finishes at the end of June, while...

Apr 26, 2026, 2:15 AM

They Signed Letters — Not History

The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin; the U.S. president, Bill Clinton; and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on the White House lawn, 1993. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Israel Didn’t “Recognize Palestinians.” It Recognized a Negotiating Partner. A familiar claim keeps resurfacing: “Israel itself recognized the Palestinian people.” From that, a further leap is made: that Israel effectively conceded the name “Palestinians,” surrendering it to what I call UNRWA clientele. The...

Nov 30, 2025, 10:11 AM

War vs. Diplomacy

Oliver branch, courtesy of Wikicommons images

Since the “ceasefire” began over a month ago, on October 10, 2025, it seems that the extreme right-wing government of Israel has been itching to go back to war. Why? What is it that makes this government so trigger-happy,...

Nov 15, 2025, 1:48 PM

Volunteering in olive groves, I experienced settler violence first-hand

A settler wearing a soldier's uniform aims his gun at Jews and Palestinians participating in an olive harvest in the West Bank, Nov. 4, 2025. (Courtesy Sarah Reines)

When they shot at my US clergy group, I froze, thinking the trees too narrow to shield me, but my real concern is the escalating attacks and their impunity

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Nov 8, 2025, 6:35 PM

From now on, for everyone, Jewish tragedies must be commemorated on one day each

One People, one Land, one G^d, one calendar I don't think it is a good idea that secular and religious Israelis commemorate tragedies that they endured together on separate days. Secular and religious Jews should adopt each other fast. Unity is...

Nov 6, 2025, 9:30 PM

Rabin, Oslo, and Israel’s Unfinished Peace

Honoring a leader, learning hard lessons, and choosing resilience and renewal I still remember the evening of November 4, 1995 – not so much where I was, but what was running through my mind when the news flashed across the...

Kenneth Jacobson

Nov 6, 2025, 5:15 AM

What Rabin’s Assassination and Oct. 7 Have in Common

This week we are remembering what was, until the October 7 massacre, one of the worst days in Israel's history: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin thirty years ago. Unfortunately, these two very different tragic days in Israel's...

Nov 4, 2025, 6:23 PM

Remember, remember, the fourth of November!

Thousands of the Oslo Peace agreement supporters, gathered in the Tel Aviv Municipality plaza, to incurage Rabin's government toward the final solution with the Palestians. Rabin was killed on his way home leaving the Tel Aviv municipality building. 04/11/95. Photo shows: PM Rabin Itzhak addressing to the thousands of supporters.
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Photo by IPPA Staff

Remember, remember! The fourth of November, The gunpowder, the treason, the plot! I know of no reason Why the Kahanist treason Should ever be forgot! Yigal Amir With too little fear Did the scheme contrive To shoot Rabin While at the scene Not leaving the PM alive. This heinous act, Was increasingly...

Jonathan Schwartz

Nov 3, 2025, 11:59 PM

Some Thoughts at the Kikar (the Square)

Saturday night, I and about 150,000 other fellow Israelis, took part in a rally to mark thirty years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The rally was held at the spot where the assassination took place. The surrounding streets,...

Nov 3, 2025, 9:32 PM

Thirty years since Rabin: a moment for honest reckoning

November 4, 2025 marks 30 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin—shot by an Israeli extremist at the culmination of a peace rally in Tel Aviv. I was 22 years old then, a combat soldier in the...

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