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David Isaac

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

The State Comptroller began his Oct. 7 audit in Jan. 2024, focusing mainly on the political echelon, the IDF and the Shin Bet.
“On behalf of hundreds of thousands of reservists, thank you,” Israel Katz said. “You are the vanguard of the State of Israel.”
The “secret documents affair” involves the passing of a classified document from IDF Intelligence to Feldstein, a communications adviser for the PM.
Observers drawn from families of slain soldiers would be entitled to participate in deliberations, pose questions and submit written comments.
“We are talking about an independent commission of inquiry with full powers, exactly as defined in the Commissions of Inquiry Law,” said the Israeli premier.
The decision proves that there are no conservative judges on the court, only “activists and extremist activists,” Justice Minister Yariv Levin said.
“Antisemitism on the left is a well-known problem. ... Now what has been revealed is we have also a problem on the right.”
Because of its importance not just to Jews, but to the West, excavating the City of David has engendered much hostility, speakers said at a Dec. 9 event.
Is Ra’am sincere or just engaged in political theater, attempting to survive a process that would render it an outlaw?
Ali Hage Zaki Jalil, of Lebanese descent, had been living on Venezuela’s Margarita Island, where he was seized by authorities last month.
NGOs in Gaza are part of “an institutionalized framework of coercion” that serves the terrorist group’s objectives, according to NGO Monitor.
“Whatever happens, I’m coming home.” Though bound, starved and abused, the former hostage never gave up. His determination to return to his family kept him going.