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Douglas Altabef

Douglas Altabef

Douglas Altabef is chairman of the board of Im Tirtzu and a director of the Israel Independence Fund. He can be reached at: dougaltabef@gmail.com.

Israel must not give in to U.S. demands, but protect and nurture its own sovereignty and pride.
Educational investment should be seen as designed to produce law-abiding, productive citizens. When you’ve been studying Talmud for years and years, you can pick up other subjects pretty quickly.
If we want young people to live and thrive in Israel, we must make sure they can afford to do so.
We must stand up for the rights that place Israel on the right side of law, justice and sovereignty
Whether or not the current government falls, there are essential issues that must be dealt with by any ruling coalition.
The Palestinians push a false reality that the rest of the world buys into, and then insists Israel buy into it as well.
The Israeli government must reassert its sovereignty and control, starting with the Temple Mount.
In one week, Israel goes from mourning victims of the Holocaust and honoring its fallen soldiers to celebrating the nation they helped create.
Israel should counter fictitious Palestinian narratives, like the “threat” to Al-Aqsa, by ceaselessly telling the truth to the world
“Haaretz” has a nervous breakdown over the removal of the Hamas flag.
Israel’s new U.S. ambassador is the anti-David Friedman
We Israelis and our soldiers know, as the Ukrainian people are now realizing, that ultimately we must be self-reliant and embrace the reasons for our service and sacrifice.