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David M. Weinberg

David M. Weinberg

David M. Weinberg is a fellow at the Jerusalem-based Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy and the David Institute for Security Policy. His diplomatic, defense, political and Jewish world columns in the past 30 years are available at: davidmweinberg.com. The views here are his own.

Haredi students at Hadassah Academic College. Credit: Hadassah Academic College.
Opinion
Don’t kill the haredi revolution!
The threat comes from a group of extremist professors who have petitioned the High Court of Justice with a demand to terminate all government funding for gender-segregated college programs geared to the very observant.
Dec. 2, 2018
David M. Weinberg
Friends and family greeting the Schaffel and Pinchot couples at Ben-Gurion International Airport after a Nefesh B’Nefesh group aliyah flight, October 2018. Credit: Jonny Finkel Photography.
Opinion
Israel has role in fighting anti-Semitism
For the first 25 years of Israel’s existence, the unspoken attitude in Jerusalem was that “if Jews abroad have a problem with anti-Semites, they can always immigrate to Israel.”
Nov. 4, 2018
David M. Weinberg
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Don’t throw MBS under the bus!
For all its legendary wealth, Saudi Arabia is, after all, a failed state with tribal divisions, byzantine oligarchic intrafamily enmities, zealously rigid religious leaders and a barbaric “justice” system.
Oct. 26, 2018
David M. Weinberg
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces near the Huwara checkpoint on Dec. 22, 2017. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
Warmed-over withdrawal syndrome
In short, a unilateral Israeli withdrawal will not enhance Israeli security nor improve Israel’s international position and moral standing. It will rip Israeli society apart for no good reason.
Oct. 12, 2018
David M. Weinberg
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York, visual in hand, revealing a hidden Iranian nuclear facility and secret missiles in Lebanon’s capital, on Sept. 27, 2018. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.
Opinion
Iran: Nowhere, no-time supervision
The point of all this is to illustrate the limitations—indeed, the uselessness and even venality, of international institutions—when it comes to guaranteeing Israeli security.
Oct. 5, 2018
David M. Weinberg
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