The decision taken by the Knesset plenum yesterday, to create a parliamentary investigative committee for “the phenomenon of de-legitimization of the IDF in the world on the part of Israeli organization”, has nothing whatsoever to do with an investigation. Israel has investigative procedures: if there’s a suspicion of a crime, either the police or [...]

Binyamin Netanyahu has shown a marked preference for American Jews. Many of them have, over the years, worked for him. He even appointed some to high office: Stanley Fischer as Director of the Bank of Israel, Michael Oren as ambassador to the US. It is possible there were not worthy of either office, but I [...]

Last night (Wed.) the Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, announced that Israel severs its contact with the international culture organization, UNESCO. This was a result, he claimed, of UNESCO announcing the sheikh’s tomb known to Israelis as Rachel’s Tomb to be a mosque. Which, by the way, is not the case. This took place on [...]