By Tzvi Fishman
Our task as Jews and as a holy Nation is to link the physical world with the Divine. As Rabbi Kook makes clear, Eretz Yisrael is the G-d given place ideally suited for this task.
By Tzvi Fishman
All of our security and wellbeing, both in a national, military sense, and in the camp of our homes, depends on our personal purity.
Once again, Liberman criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in their handling of the wave of terror attacks.
The cell that planned to kill Lieberman was only of several planning to kill PA official and Israelisץ
The coalition likes to survive by blood-letting.
The real news will be when the West wakes up before it won’t be able to wake up.
Lieberman comes up with his third solution in less than a month what to do with Gaza. The question is what to do with Lieberman.
By Shalom Bear
Resistance to integrating Haredim into the coalition came from an unexpected source.
The Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, has decided not to appeal Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman's acquittal. Liberman was unanimously acquitted on November 6, after being hounded for 17 years on various charges. Unexpectedly, Weinstein had decided to go after Liberman on a weaker charge of breach of public trust, rather than what seemed to be the […]
By Tibbi Singer
Absent much to do in the home country, Ayalon got a job teaching at YU, where America's future diplomats usually don't come from.
The civil servants at Israel's foreign ministry seem to believe it is their job to shape government policy rather than to be faithful to it.
By Barry Rubin
The problem of this government is more likely to be one of personalities, marginal issues that get blown up in importance, and jockeying for financial benefits for different constituencies.
By Batya Medad
Benjamin Netanyahu made his bed when he put pragmatic secular politics over Jewish values.
By Batya Medad
It's not that the various coalition partners don't trust Bibi, but that he doesn't really trust them.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman urged the European Union on Saturday to focus on its own problems and stay out of the local dispute between Arabs and Jews over the future of Judea, Samaria, and the rest of Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud Party convention called for a four-month election campaign. Meanwhile, coalition partner Yisrael Beiteinu called for a delay of the Knesset dissolution to allow the government to pass its bill ordering mandatory enlistment in the Israel Defense Forces for all Israeli citizens.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced that Israel had severed all working relations with the UN Human Rights Council as of Monday this week, and will block a U.N. fact finding team from entering Israel or Judea and Samaria to investigate Jewish settlements. Spokesman Yigal Palmor said this "means that we're not going to work with them. We're not going to let them carry out any kind of mission, including this probe."
By Rafi Harkham
Deputy FM Danny Ayalon said Israel would not be cooperating with the Council in the wake of its passage of a resolution ordering a 'fact-finding mission' into Israel's conduct in Judea and Samaria: "We have no reason to continue cooperating with a hypocritical organization which specializes in double-speak and has a mission to smear us."
By Tibbi Singer
Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who is currently on a state visit in China, attacked the controversial remarks made by EU Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton, who equated Monday's brutal murder in Toulouse with, presumably, the killings in Syria and Israeli preventive attacks on rocket launchers in Gaza.
AFP reports that Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin told reporters at a regular briefing that "China is concerned about the escalation of the situation in Gaza." "We call upon the Israeli side to stop air raids against Gaza. We hope the parties concerned can stop firing immediately in order to avoid casualties of innocent […]
As atomic energy watchdogs reported being denied access to critical Iranian nuclear facilities, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told reporters that Israel alone would make the decisions necessary for the security of its citizens.
Lieberman's visit comes as the rhetoric between the West and Iran is heating up, and a day after the conclusion of the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement.
Ban Ki-Moon has requested that Israel make "goodwill gestures" to move negotiations with the Palestinians forward.
Lieberman is accused of receiving "millions of dollars" between 2001 and 2008 while serving as MK and government minister.
