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David Isaac

Explore Senior Israel Correspondent David Isaac’s expert analysis on Jewish history, politics, and current events at JNS.

While the protests sweeping the Islamic Republic are significant, Tehran will probably weather them, experts tell JNS.
Rather than anti-Jewish Qatari hostility, Rabbi Marc Schneier described “a beautiful collaborative effort.”
The collectible statues are the brainchild of Assaf Harari, owner of Piece of History Studio. He has so far created 35 Zionist figurines.
Likud MK Yariv Levin hopes to rein in the court as the next justice minister.
The newer the platform and the younger its users, the higher the level of Jew-hatred, the CEO of With Israel for Peace said.
“This conference is a warning conference,” said IDF Maj. Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman, executive director of INSS. “We expect a reality that within five to 10 years the superpower support that Israel enjoys will be at risk.”
“I suggest that President Herzog spend a little bit more time learning about engineering, about the electrical grid…about the environmental harm of covering thousands and thousands of acres of land, and about transmission lines,” Yonatan Dubi, a chemistry professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, told JNS.
With his position as opposition leader secured, outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid faces a bigger challenge—coming up with a winning program.
If the numbers don’t change, the Likud leader will have a fairly easy time forming a government.
His political future might then depend on what Shas and United Torah Judaism decide.
Those who think increased budgets for the sector will change things “don’t understand the reality,” Professor Dan Schueftan told JNS.
The idea that Israel providing military aid to Kyiv would have prevented a Moscow-Tehran alliance is “plain silly,” says Middle East Forum president.