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David Isaac

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

Political foundations are funding organizations working to change the Jewish identity of the state or to undermine Israel’s security, says watchdog group Im Tirtzu.
Bettering economic conditions in the PA-controlled territories can help to improve security conditions, Barbara Leaf said.
The question is whether this is an effort to legitimize and recruit Hamas, is just for show, or something else entirely, said Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Only one option remains to prevent Tehran from becoming a nuclear power, experts tell JNS — attack, within a year.
According to the complaint, the immediate aim of an ongoing investigation of the Portuguese Jewish community is to take control of Portuguese telecom giant MEO, owned by Jewish businessman Patrick Drahi.
Are Hezbollah and Lebanon one and the same? It depends who you ask.
“The U.S. is acting as if the IRGC is a separate entity from the regime, but it isn’t,” says Bar-Ilan University lecturer Eyal Pinko.
“The illegal building that’s taking place by the Arabs has increased so dramatically in the last year that it’s out of control. If we judge according to where these activities are happening, they’re definitely in places which you can see they’re trying to create facts on the ground,” says Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi.
Experts nevertheless caution that the rapprochement is fragile given Erdoğan’s political party is aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestinian issue remains a sticking point, and Ankara previously restored ties only to break them off again.
“The fact of the matter is, there is very little appetite in the Security Council to support this move,” says the CEO of the International Legal Forum.
Israel’s current policy cannot assure its long-term security, and particularly that of its southern residents, experts tell JNS.
“The truth is Israel’s government doesn’t know what will happen,” says an Israeli government source In the runup to August 19 hearing on the shuttering of the Agency in Russia.