Legitimate protest in Israel is normal, like in any democratic country. But, the recent spike in ‘Price Tag’ violence is of great concern for the Israeli government. How should we interpret this phenomenon? To be able to understand the seemingly radicalization of the settler youth, we need to go back to the disengagement from Gush […]
We read in the Bible that there will be a second exodus. This time the Jewish people will return back to Israel from all corners of the world. We are privileged to live in this time to experience this major prophetic event. …..the Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover the […]
The mainstream media is in a constant mode of delegitimisation of Israel. A case in point is the continual twisting of facts to paint Israel as the demon in the Middle East while positive and life-changing developments to humankind are flatly ignored. Let’s take note of the positive and what Israel offers to the world, […]
With the newly elected government of Israel not properly settled in, the pressure from world powers on Israel to start the Peace Process with the Palestinians began in all earnest. Diplomats and envoys queued-up to visit Israel in the coming months. In his latest book, Sparks from Zion, David Rubin, former mayor of Shiloh made […]
On Wednesday, 6 May 2015 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to form the new coalition government with a one seat majority after signing a deal with the Bayit Yehudi party of Naftali Bennett. The last minute decision by Avigdor Liberman to resign as Minister of Foreign Affairs and leading his party to join the opposition […]
The social fibre of our communities is in a dangerous stage of unravelling and I believe the media and some community organisations are partly to blame for this unacceptable situation. The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is brought to our communities by biased and sometimes gravely propagandistic reporting and actions, pitting sections of the […]
The world is in turmoil, but it seems that a tiny nation in the sea of nations, albeit experiencing the same problems like any other nation, succeeds in leading the world on so many levels. So much so, that the world would have been poorer without this nation. Israel is only 1/6 of 1% of […]
On 18 May 2014, I wrote in this space about rising anti-Semitism worldwide. Since then anti-Semitic incidents increased dramatically, mostly in Europe. The latest attack on a synagogue in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, took place on Saturday 14 February 2014, the Jewish Shabbat. A 37 year old community member, Dan Uzan was killed in […]
Israel experienced the deadliest month in two years. Sergeant Almog Shiloni, 20, from Modi’in, killed in Tel Aviv, and Dalia Lemkus, 26, who was stabbed to death at the entrance to Alon Shvut on Monday 10 November 2014, were the tenth and eleventh Israelis to be murdered in the past six months. Dalia Lemkus escaped […]
The following article was published in the Palestinian newspaper, Al-Ayyam on 18 October 2014: “What is happening in Jerusalem these days, in al-Aksa Mosque, must be given priority over any other issue. Jerusalem, which for generations kept a strong Muslim and Arab identity, is falling under the pressure of its Judaization, occupation and annexation. Current […]