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David Isaac

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

Portugal’s Jews have been targeted by anti-Semitic campaign seeking to abolish a 2015 law granting citizenship to descendants of Jews expelled in the 15th century, says Oporto Jewish community president.
Despite its constraints, an interim government headed by Yair Lapid will wield considerable power, experts say.
Oil prices have sped up MBS’s return to the world stage, said Mideast professor Joshua Teitelbaum. “While the United States may no longer be dependent on the Saudis for oil, it is still dependent on the Saudis for the price of oil.”
The main topics are likely to be Iran, a Middle East security alliance, the future of the Palestinian Authority, the Russia-Ukraine-Syria triangle and the “I2U2” coalition, experts tell JNS.
Analysts say Israel stopover of secondary importance to U.S. president’s desire for Saudi Arabia to help reduce global oil prices.
Can he secure the required 61 Knesset seats in that time? The experts are skeptical.
“We want to boost our energy cooperation with Israel,” said European Union Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Comes as Jewish state raises travel warning for Istanbul to highest level, calls on citizens to leave Turkey amid Iranian terror plots.
“People-to-people diplomacy between Pakistanis and Israelis is going to change the world,” says one of the trip’s organizers.
“The world must take a firm stance … Iran’s nuclear program won’t stop until it’s stopped,” affirms the Israeli prime minister.
Yoel Guzansky, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, told JNS: “This is dramatic. And I guess this is the background of the visit: Iran, Iran, Iran.”
“We need to be creative in how we fight it,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, founder of Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Center, and “we want the United States to keep its promise and to stand up for the State of Israel.”