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Hillel Frisch

Hillel Frisch

Hillel Frisch is a professor of political studies and Middle East studies at Bar-Ilan University and an expert on the Arab world at The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.

Moving on to the final stage of the hostage agreement will validate the path of jihad among Palestinians and the wider Muslim world, replenish Hamas’s leadership structure and impose significant long-term military and economic costs on Israel.
U.S. pressure against the Atarot housing project north of Jerusalem was likely meant to keep the two-state option alive.
In conjunction with radical Arab Knesset members, leftist Israeli politicians focus on settler violence when the real issue is Palestinian violence, organized from the apex of the P.A. on down.
Will the Israel’s new leaders Bennett and Lapid take this to heart, or will Israelis pay the cost?
Gaza residents do not like being human shields and are tired of bearing the brunt of fighting that gets them no closer to “liberating” Jerusalem.
The foremost and most pressing issue confronting Israel after the latest Gaza war is the tens of thousands of illegal weapons held by the country’s Arab citizens, especially criminal gangs.
It took only hours for Israel’s conciliatory moves during Jerusalem Day to trigger mass rioting by Israeli Arabs and an avalanche of rockets and missiles from the Gaza Strip.
Ankara is beginning to recognize the folly of its imperialist foreign policy. Will the new U.S. administration?
That organizations like Al-Haq, Addameer and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights totally ignore the plight of Palestinian Christians reveals their true nature.