The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) held a gala dinner last night and paid respect to Glenn Beck, who received the "Dr. Miriam & Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award."

Beck, as usual, shed a few tears during his speech. But like the true entertainer that he is, he left...

Sometime in September, in just over a month, U.S. President Barack Obama will effectively close the door on the two-state solution. Some say this solution has already been dead for years, due to the immense growth of settlements that would obstruct any option of a viable Palestinian state in the...

They're not "illegal". They're "illegitimate".

That's the excuse that the world's most powerful nation, a beacon of freedom and democracy, came up with to explain why it vetoed a UNSC resolution calling Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal.

That's the best they had.

All the President's men, all the...

I can't get away from it. Every place I go, everything I read, everything I watch -- it's always there. The racism is always there. Towards Arabs, towards foreign workers, towards Morroccans, Russians, Ashkenazim, Mizrahim.

This isn't the place I grew up in. Where is that place? Where did it...

Ten years ago today my leftism changed. On October 12, 2000, two IDF reservists, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, were killed by an angry mob in Ramallah after taking a wrong turn and crossing a checkpoint that should have stopped them -- but didn't.

It was at the...

Originally published in The Jerusalem Post

"Pessimism," "doomed to fail" and "waste of time" - these words and phrases litter the reporting and blogging on the current talks between Israel and the Palestinians. One can only hope to be pleasantly surprised and hear that by the end of...

One of the most heated debates you've probably never heard of going on in Israel these days is over natural gas. Ever since reports began to surface on the huge reservoirs of gas off the coast of Israel, the discussion over who the it belongs to and how much money...

With the Arab League literally forcing Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to agree to direct negotiations with Israel, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu must be thinking he's one shrewd fox.

Now he can go into talks that probably won't last long, talks that most people know will fail. And the...

Well, Israel finally did it. We finally managed to actually remove an illegal settlement.

Oops... Wait a minute... Looks like this "settlement" is in Israel proper!

And oops! Looks like its status as "illegal" is under debate.

And oops again! Looks like the inhabitants aren't Jewish settlers... They're...

So America, Europe and the World - I have a question for you:

What more proof do you need?

What more proof do you need to convince you to finally take action?

What more proof do you need to convince you, that these two children who have the audacity to...

I have a few questions on Judaism and mitzvahs for my friends on the right. Maybe they can help me out, because I just don't get how this whole thing is supposed to work. For example, is one supposed to actually DO mitzvahs? Or are they those basic guidelines you...

I can't tell you what this post is about.

If I do, I might get arrested.

No, I don't live in Iran. I don't live in Myanmar. I don't live in China.

I live in "the only democracy in the Middle East".

What I CAN do is share with...

What does a small hospital in Ashkelon, a town 20 km north of the Gaza Strip, have to do with Middle East peace and the Iranian nuclear program? Probably a lot more than you think.

Last Sunday, the Israeli cabinet approved by one vote a plan to relocate the

Like a chess player patiently waiting for his opponent to make the first mistake, the Obama administration has pounced on the opportunity to vent its anger with Israel. The public humiliation of Vice President Joe Biden during his visit in Israel was, apparently, the last straw.

With Bibi Netanyahu turning out to be just another Yitzhak Shamir - the one who doesn't initiate, doesn't lead and does nothing to get things moving - the ball has been thrown into the Palestinians' court. And if we stick with the sports metaphors for a bit, what...

One of the most common slogans used by Israeli left-wingers is "the occupation corrupts." Meaning, it corrupts Israeli society -- and even more importantly, it corrupts Israeli democracy.

But the damage that Benjamin Netanyahu's government has done in its first year is so overwhelming, one can only wonder what will...

The U.S. administration has played it all wrong with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. After one year with both Netanyahu and Obama in office, the only "success" America has chalked up is a "freeze" on settlement building in the West Bank which is actually only a temporary freeze, and isn't...