05/02/2023
On April 27, activists from the nationalist camp held a massive rally in support of reform of the legal system. The rally was the largest political rally in Israeli history. While it fell short of its million man target, based on drone footage and past history, there were between 500,000 and 700,000 people at the rally. I was honored to…
04/28/2023
The best time to visit Mount Herzl Military Cemetery on Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars) is in the afternoon. The morning rush has ended. The ceremonies are over. There are no jostling crowds craning their necks to see, no politicians, no photographers looking for the perfect picture to encapsulate the day. The late afternoon is…
04/28/2023
While the domestic strife in Israel is enough to make anyone feel distressed, the fact is that the fissure tearing Israelis apart is not as deep or as wide as they seem from the news. While the angry, massively funded rallies of the left against the Netanyahu government and its voters, and the angry responses of the government’s voters make…
04/21/2023
In this week’s Caroline Glick Show, on Yom HaShoah, I reflected on the lessons of the Holocaust for contemporary Jews in my opening remarks. I was joined by Tony Badran from the Washington, DC-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies to discuss the Hamas missile attacks on Israel from Lebanon, Gaza and further strikes from Syria and Israel’s counterstrike against Hamas…
04/21/2023
A group of soldiers from a company of Israel Defense Forces’ reservists in the Golani Infantry Brigade abandoned their posts at their training base in southern Israel on Tuesday and went home. The reservists revolted because they didn’t accept their battalion commander’s decision to replace their company commander with a company commander from the Paratrooper Brigade. As Yediot Achronot’s military reporter Yossi…
04/11/2023
The Israeli public reasonably expected a dramatic announcement was coming when the Prime Minister’s Bureau announced Monday afternoon that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would give a prime-time press conference that evening from the Prime Minister’s Office at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv rather than the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Over the past several days, Israel has found itself…
04/11/2023
Israel has been hit by a wave of terror attacks during Passover, with a car shooting in the Jordan Valley that left two sisters and a mother dead, and a car-ramming in Tel Aviv that left one dead and many injured. In addition, violence broke out on the Temple Mount after Israeli police raided the Al-Aqsa mosque, leading to missiles…
04/07/2023
On Tuesday, Axios reported that in January, the Biden administration began negotiations with the Iranian regime about the possibility of reaching a partial agreement related to Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It revealed those efforts to Israel, Britain, France and Germany in February. The report revealed that President Joe Biden and his team have offered Tehran a deal that would see the U.S.…
04/07/2023
Over the past two days, as Jews celebrate Passover, Hezbollah/Iran has used their Palestinian proxy Hamas to launch a coordinated assault on Israel through their Palestinian proxy Hamas which has attacked from Lebanon and Gaza and is carrying out murderous terror attacks in Israel. This is all happening as Israel is faced with the most hostile administration in Washington it…
03/31/2023
Israel was rocked by the news on Thursday that the U.S. State Department had ordered NASA scientist Dr. Amber Straughn to cancel her participation in the Israel Physical Society’s annual meeting. The news came following Straughn’s posting on Twitter that her “travel authorization was revoked” on Wednesday. The State Department’s move, which gives the appearance of an official boycott, would…