יום ראשון, ו׳ תמוז תשפ״וSunday, June 21, 2026
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The writer is managing senior fellow at the Jerusalem-based Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy. The views expressed here are his own. His diplomatic, defense, political, and Jewish world columns over the past 28 years are at davidmweinberg.com.
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First the EU builds illegal settlements in defiance of Israel, then it demands that Israel pay for these offenses when Israel acts against them. How much more contemptuous can you get than that?
Cutting Arab neighborhoods in the east and north out of Jerusalem’s municipal jurisdiction is a bad idea; a slippery slope towards a full-scale political division of the city. Either Israel rules effectively, generously and fully in greater Jerusalem, for all residents, or it doesn’t.
What difference does it make whether Abbas gives a “moderate” speech at the UN next week? His obstructionism is constant and guaranteed
The Temple Mount Sifting Project has turned the Wakf’s criminal dump of the most sensitive and valuable archaeological dirt on the globe – a national disgrace – into a national treasure. Funding the project is the least the government can do as penance for its long-standing malfeasance in countering Palestinian-Islamic aggression against Jewish history in Jerusalem and Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount.
Building 50,000 homes on Jerusalem’s eastern edge is critical for the future of the city and for Israel’s security. E-1 must be developed to revitalize Jerusalem and secure Israel.
The hearts and minds of average Palestinians have to be prepared for peace through a completely different set of messages.
Sinai-stan, Hamas-stan, Hezbollah-stan, and Syria-stan already have emerged on Israel’s southern and northern borders. This is more than enough for Israel to handle. A Pales-stan on Israel’s eastern border would be unbearable. Israel can’t and won’t let it rise.
Jerusalem is a consensus issue in Israeli politics. The Netanyahu government would enjoy widespread public backing for action to parry Palestinian and Islamic incitement in Jerusalem and to solidify Israel’s rights on Har HaBayit
The debt-ridden medical center is on the road to financial recovery and renewed medical excellence under the leadership of its tough and trailblazing director, Prof. Zeev Rotstein.
A haredi middle class is rising, one which has dispensable income and is developing wider lifestyle horizons. Perhaps it offers new pathways of navigating modernity for haredi and secular Israeli society.
Presenting the optimistic side of life in Jerusalem, focusing on trends among eastern Jerusalem Arabs towards integration with Israeli society, and on policies implemented to increase an Arab sense of belonging to united Jerusalem.
Time to reestablish Zionist momentum in Jerusalem. This means building many new homes, cracking down on Arab violence, and securing minimal Jewish rights on the Temple Mount.
The speech that President Trump SHOULD deliver in Jerusalem next week: “America is going to take steps to nurture a culture of peace and push the parties towards realistic outcomes. We’re going to cleanse international discourse from hypocritical rot and illusory expectations. No more coddling of enemies and demeaning of friends.”
The UN cannot really be reformed. It’s time to create alternative bodies that are mere professional agencies with no grandiose moral pretensions.
The brilliant yet unassuming Rabbi Lichtenstein bravely modeled for us a rich life of religious purity, intellectual rigor, constant study, broad-mindedness, and societal commitment.
Trump already has helped Israel regain a significant degree of defensive strength by rejecting ‘daylight’ as strategic policy, instead warmly embracing Netanyahu as an intimate ally. L'Chaim!
The final, dismal scorecard that Obama is turning in today wouldn’t win him a local cookie-baking award from the Girl Scouts of America, never mind a global peace prize.
