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May 15, 2017 “Say It Proud!” It’s about time!  Actually, past time. MK Avi Dichter (Likud), chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee,...

May 12, 2017 “Up, Down, All Around” Sometimes even if we track the news carefully (or maybe especially if we track the news carefully) we...

May 9, 2017 “Mercurial” It’s a given that the political scene is rarely static.  But the present – both here and in the US –...

May 2, 2017 “Amazing Israel” Every year I write about this, and every year it astounds me yet again: The transition within a moment in...

April 30, 2017 “Strength of a Nation” Tonight we began Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, here in Israel: a day of national mourning. At 8 PM,...

April 27, 2017 “Riding the Waves” When I was a kid (a million years ago), I loved to ride the waves.  I would move out...

April 24, 2017 “Awe” I know of no more appropriate word to describe the strength, resilience and courage of survivors of the Holocaust – the...

April 19, 2017 “What Is Normal?” We are back to routine after the Pesach week – and a splendid week it was in many ways....

April 7, 2017 “Never Ending” I wrote yesterday about the marvelous statement made by MK Ohana.  I knew there was a stand-alone video of his...

April 6, 2017 “Hard Truths and Iron Determination” This morning, Elhai Taharlev, 20, a member of the prestigious Golani Brigade of the IDF, was murdered...