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Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad resides in Shiloh and is a foreign media spokesperson for the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities.

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The Temple as Political Satire on Eretz Nehederet

By Yisrael Medad

A little insulting but shouldn't the Temple become a central element in the public discourse?

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Where Did the Green Line Go?

By Yisrael Medad

As evidenced by this World War I map, the Green Line is a new creation.

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Dani Dayan, Caroline Glick Debate the Yesha Communities Issue

By Yisrael Medad

Dani Dayan and Caroline Glick were met with hostility at the event (organised by Intelligence Squared) that was contacted at the lecture hall of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Is Sheikh Jarrah Actually the Biblical Town of Nob?

By Yisrael Medad

A Hebrew University professor suggests that the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheik Jarrah is actually the Biblical town of Nob, where David fled from Saul.

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How Many Times Can They Say Israel Has Turned Right?

By Yisrael Medad

How many times can we be said to have turned right? And why are journalists surprised?

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Obama is So Unoriginal

By Yisrael Medad

I'd suggest it is Israel that is saving the West, if only they'd let us.

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Why Bennett Left the Yesha Council

By Yisrael Medad

Apparently it was due to criticism of Netanyahu after the Migron evacuation.

My Right Word / Israel Elections 5773

The Dani Dayan Pro-Likud Clip

By Yisrael Medad

Yesha Council Chairman Dani Dayan appears in a pro-Likud video clip.

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An Empire of Decline

By Yisrael Medad

The Ottoman Empire was in decline for most of its existence.

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Who Said, 'I Oppose the Creation of a Palestinian State'?

By Yisrael Medad

Looking backon Rabin's 1993 interview in Time Magazine.

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Netanyahu on the Parsha

By Yisrael Medad

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that just as in the Torah in Egypt "there arose a new king," Israel today cannot rely on the stability and benevolence of it's neighbor's regimes.

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A Negative Palestinian Migration Rate

By Yisrael Medad

Thirty thousand more Arabs left Judea and Samaria for Jordan than came into Israel.

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Are You Poll Fooled?

By Yisrael Medad

A recent poll claims that most right-wing Israelis would support Palestinian state and the division of Jerusalem, but that is a very misguiding description of Israeli public opinion.

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New Finds from First Temple Period at Motza

By Yisrael Medad

The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of a rare cache of sacred vessels from the early days of the Kingdom of Judea.

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Ukranian Politician Calls Mila Kunis a 'Dirty Jewess'

By Yisrael Medad

Ukranian politician Igor Miroshnichenko said Mila Kunis, who left the Ukraine at a yong age, was a "zhydovka" and not a "true Ukrainian."

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Who's Being 'Provocative'?

By Yisrael Medad

The US State Department labeled Israel provocative yesterday along with North Korea and Turkey. No word yet on the Palestinians.

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The Founding of Modern Shiloh, 1978

By Yisrael Medad

The Walla news site uploaded a home-movie clip of the founding of the modern city of Shiloh, Judea and Samaria.

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Olmert Flip Flops on E-1 Construction

By Yisrael Medad

Olmert now claims that Netanyahu's decision to move forward with construction in E-1 is 'beyond my comprehension,' but he himself supported building there in the past.

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US Backtracks on Clinton Parameters

By Yisrael Medad

The E-1 area was always viewed by Israel and the U.S. as an area which would remain in Jewish hands.

My Right Word / Israel Elections 5773

First-Time Israeli Voters Going Right

By Yisrael Medad

This item in Hebrew from Israel's Channel 2/Mako informs us that: 49% of all first time voters define themselves as right-wing. 20% as center but right-leaning. 5% as left and 9% as center but left-leaning. How are those stats? Visit My Right Word.

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A New Idea from the European Union

By Yisrael Medad

The EU has provided a new idea for Israel to come down harder on the internationalists that block our roads.

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B'tselem Protects Terrorists

By Yisrael Medad

I am beginning to wonder in whose service is B'tselem.

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Hamas Propaganda is Terror Art

By Yisrael Medad

With an enemy like this, with its warped logic, there is no common language.

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A Pro-Israel Cartoon in the British Media?

By Yisrael Medad

An amazingly, pro-Israel cartoon in the London Times.

My Right Word / Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan

The Twitter War

By Yisrael Medad

The IDF's use of twitter has been called perhaps the most meaningful change in our consumption of war in over 20 years.

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Killed for Complaining About Graffiti

By Yisrael Medad

In Los Angeles, gang members have begun targeting residents who complain about "tagging."

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Ha'aretz's Good News Poll

By Yisrael Medad

Can we trust Haaretz reporting on polls? After Eldar and Levy on those "apartheid" stories? Here's the latest, "For the right man, Israelis would make peace" which makes the claim that "The consensus is moving to the right, but that doesn't mean Israeli Jews won't support a deal with the PA if the right leader comes along, a new study shows."

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Hankey, Hogarth and the 'Arab People of Palestine'

By Yisrael Medad

"At the time of the Hogarth negotiations, the Arab people of Palestine were a backward, primitive sort of people without political consciousness." Those words were spoken at the meeting of the League of Nations Mandates Commission, Friday, June 16th, 1939, at 10.30 a.m. They are Lord Hankey's words. He was Secretary of the Imperial War Cabinet 1916-1918 and then Secretary to the Cabinet for the next nineteen years.

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A Red-Faced Red Cross

By Yisrael Medad

In his op-ed in Ha'artez, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Israel disputes the Levy Report. He does not understand that we are Jews returning, not being transferred to Judea and Samaria.

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PLO Official Suggests Confederation with Jordan

By Yisrael Medad

The official "said he supported the idea of a federation or confederation between the West Bank and Jordan." A confederation has been an Israeli suggestion for decades and now they are finally getting around to discussing it.

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Daniella Weiss on The Honor of Israel

By Yisrael Medad

In a 5-page handwritten letter sent to then Agricultural Minister Ariel Sharon on 2 Kislev 5740, or November 22, 1979 by Daniella Weiss on stationery of the Kedumim-Elon Moreh group who were then battling a government decision, in the wake of the High Court of Justice decision that ordered them moved, Weiss demanded that Sharon resigned. She claimed that moving the site it would be a victory for the PLO, and that the legal status of the settlements in the territories should be changed before Israel transferred the oil fields in Sinai to Egypt, according to the peace agreement.

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What Happened at Rachel's Tomb?

By Yisrael Medad

A Pro-Palestinian website claimed Jews had "stormed" Rachel's Tomb. In reality they were actually just going on a pilgrimage to mark Rachel Imenu's passing.

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Yesha Council Initiates Levy Report Campaign

By Yisrael Medad

At the Yesha Council Emergency Meeting dealing with the new campaign to pressure the government to authorize the Levy Report and/or make it a condition for a future coalition agreement with the parties that will form Netanyahu's next government:

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Did You Know This About Mormonism?

By Yisrael Medad

"The Book of Mormon clearly states that Nephi built a temple modeled upon the temple of Solomon upon arriving in the Americas (2 Nephi 5:16). In addition, the Book of Mormon says that other temples were built in the Americas (see 3 Nephi 11:1 and Helaman 3:14)...the Israelites in the Americas were trying to faithfully follow the law of Moses."

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The JTA Politically Editorializes My Letter on The Soviet Jewry Movement

By Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad's letter to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on the true beginning of the movement for Soviet Jewry and what country the JTA said Medad resided in.

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Turkey... Goes Turkey (Video)

By Yisrael Medad

In Turkey, the referee attacks the player. Seems in August, one soccer official decided enough was enough. During a low-league soccer match in Turkey between Altinorduspor (red) and Pazarspor (blue), a Pazarspor player was preparing to take a free kick when one of the linesman suddenly ran out onto the field and socked an Altinorduspor player right in the face.

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Judea as 'Cradle of Jewish Civilization' in The Financial Times

By Yisrael Medad

A writer in the Financial Times said Judea and Samaria was the cradle of Jewish civilization, even as he lamented the slow death of the two-state solution.

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Begin Told Meet the Press: Partition was Illegal

By Yisrael Medad

In 1948, Menachem Begin visit the U.S. and appeared on Meet the Press, telling its host that not only was partition illegal but so was severing today's Jordan from the Jewish National Home.

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And Over at the UN... Diplomats Try to Keep Israel Front and Center

By Yisrael Medad

Despite more obviously pressing problems in Syria and elsewhere, U.S. and U.N. diplomats keep focusing on Israel-Palestinian conflict.

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Is it the Army Uniform or the Jews in them?

By Yisrael Medad

is the Waqf upset that IDF soldiers in uniform enter the Temple Mount or that they are Jewish or represent the army of the state of Israel?

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Inside Hulda Gate to the Temple Mount

By Yisrael Medad

The Hulda Gate is the southern entrance to the Temple Mount, also known as the 'Double Gate.' I was there, on the inside, in 1986, with the Knesset's Interior Committee on its famous tour when we were later attacked by a mob of Muslims, throwing rocks and yelling Itbah El-Yahud ('Kill the Jews'). It was a melee and I had to rush/run Geula Cohen north to the Tribes of Israel Gate to get out safely:

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Arabs As Their Own Worst Enemy

By Yisrael Medad

A former Saudi Naval officer writes that Arab hatred of Israel is costing them severely, arguing that, "Hundreds of billions of dollars were wasted and tens of thousands of innocent lives lost fighting Israel."

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Building on Solid Ground in Yesha (Video)

By Yisrael Medad

A new video explaining the Jewish right to build in Judea and Samaria.

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State Department Creationism

By Yisrael Medad

The US State Department has created an award program for "female Palestinian scientists." Candidates are required to "be a citizen and resident of West Bank, Gaza, or Jerusalem." What does it mean by "citizen"? Is the US State Department creating, again, a Palestinian state, when there is none existing?

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Why Ha'aretz is an Evil Newspaper

By Yisrael Medad

For sure, there is no "direct connection" between the book, Torat HaMelech, and the youth who carried out the vicious attack on an Arab in Zion Square although since the trial hasn't begun, we really do not know much, neither I nor the Reform Rabbi. A Rabbi, by the way, would steer clear of such an accusation, especially during the Ten Days of Penitence. But "concentration camps"?

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Note: Claim of Synagogue Construction at Temple Mount

By Yisrael Medad

An Arab-language report claims that Israel is using as cover its work on the new Mughrabi Gate to construct a synagogue.

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Iranian Woman Strikes a Few Blows (and Kicks) For Freedom

By Yisrael Medad

Reported: Iran Cleric Pummeled by ‘Badly Covered’ Woman After Warning ... An Iranian cleric said he was beaten by a woman in the northern province of Semnan after giving her a warning for being “badly covered,” the state-run Mehr news agency reported.  Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman in the street while on his way […]

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It's A 'Deir Yassin' in Syria

By Yisrael Medad

Assad is really in trouble now: At least 10 Palestinian refugees were killed Wednesday in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, activists posting to a Facebook account for the camp reported. According to media from the camp, 15-year-old Jalal Yousif Salih was shot dead by a Syrian government sniper near the Palestine Hospital in the camp. […]

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Jerusalem Demographics 1800-1922

By Yisrael Medad

On the issue of demographics, the numbers make things quite clear that even before modern Zionism began, the city was Jewish and only Muslim repressive policies artificially kept the numbers of Jews down before the mid-19th century.

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The Gordis Not

By Yisrael Medad

Daniel Gordis writes: "To state publicly that what we have in Judea and Samaria is not an occupation might be a legally justifiable claim. But it would also signal that it is time to give up even thinking about how a different reality in the Middle East might be achieved." One might instead ask, why is the President of the Shalem Center recycling and defending the failed ideas of the Left?

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