Israel

In light of Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s decision to equate a harmless joke about a Jewish newspaper to “extreme right” antisemitism, I thought it might be useful to share a story. I think it will shed some light into just how dependent the once great ADL has become on…

The Weather, By Susan Weis-Bohlen Adina looked over her shoulder. What was that, she wondered. Had she heard something? Seen something out of the corner of her eye? Some sort of activity had caught her attention, pulled her away from her canvas where she had been working on a broad…

My first photographs of Israel are from 1983. It’s a simple equation: that’s when I first visited — for an academic year, actually (Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh). Our EL AL flight landed, and they brought us that morning directly to the Kotel. I doubt I took any pictures then, but over…

The Argentine national football team were due to face the Israeli side on June 9th 2022 in Europe. That match has now been called off. This is the second time in less than five years that Argentina has pulled out of a match with Israel. In 2018 Argentina pulled out…

The Israel Defense Forces has long claimed to be the most moral army in the world. Now it seems Israel’s state-owned defense contractor also wants to claim the moral high ground and has set its sight on a new enemy: Startup Nation. The campaign, industry experts say, is part of an ongoing war over talent between two of Israel’s most famous sectors: high-tech and defense. The company’s campaign has set its sights on enticing engineers, but is aiming to land them not through their wallets but through their moral compass.

Israel is starting to integrate artificial intelligence into their military. How are they doing that, and what are the likely results? In a recent article published by former Israeli Lt. Col. David Siman-Tov, the former Israeli Defense Force member described how “Ai is Transforming Israeli Intelligence Collection”. In it, he…

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Israeli officials say the officer, Sayad Khodayee, was a leader of a covert unit tasked with abductions and killings of Israelis and other foreigners around the world. Col. Sayad Khodayee, 50, was fatally shot outside his home on a quiet residential street in Tehran on Sunday when two gunmen on motorcycles approached his car and fired five bullets into it, according to state media. At the funeral in Tehran for a colonel in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, thousands of mourners packed the streets around the cemetery chanting “Death to Israel” and calling for revenge for his killing.