Israeli COVID rate world’s highest

Oxford University has published a study revealing that coronavirus cases per capita in Israel are now the world’s highest, with the country currently ranked in the fourth percentile for virus-related…

2.5m Israeli kids begin school

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog today presided over the opening of the new school year, which is beginning under the shadow of a resurgence of the…

Houthis attack Saudi airport

Saudi state television reported drone strikes on its Abha Airport by the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group in Yemen. By Erin Viner  A second armed drone was intercepted by the Saudi-led…

Take Care, Caretaker

Beyond Bennett-Biden Bond By Amir Oren Biblical Bilhah was one of the Abraham dynasty series of surrogate mothers, bearing two of Jacob’s children instead of his second wife, Rachel. In…

No Cabal At Kabul

Decisions Are To Be Made, Not Received By Amir Oren It was spring, 1975, and an Israeli reporter made his way to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a U.S. Army base…

Persian Protocols, Particular Politics

A Unified Theory Of Everything, Or Sheer Coincidence? By Amir Oren Whoever was the first person to realize that the shortest line between two points is a straight one did…

Maritime Murder On Mercer Street

Strikes And Signals On The Seven Seas By Amir Oren When Yosef Hershkovitz emigrated from Romania to Palestine, in the mid-1920’s, he settled in the backwater town of Haifa and…

Yes, Protection, Without Occupation

Yes, East, But Far Not Near By Amir Oren President Biden and his top State and Defense Departments lieutenants are not waiting for the Iranian regime to make up its…

Hitting the ground, running

So Far, So Good   By Amir Oren   July 12 is the anniversary of Israel’s so-called Second Lebanon War, an exaggerated name for a campaign far shorter and less…

Proxies and Prospects, Post-President and Premier

Surprise Sprung Or Support Sought By Amir Oren Over the weekend, three events which took place during the same time frame demonstrated the emerging reality in the Middle East, post-Trump…