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Israel Kasnett

Israel Kasnett

Israel Kasnett, editor at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, offers expert analysis on Israeli politics, society and regional developments at JNS.org. With a deep understanding of the region, he delivers insightful commentary that challenges media bias and provides a clear perspective on Israel.

Bachevsk, Ukraine, October 2021: Control sign at the entrance to the Ukrainian checkpoint from Russia. Credit: Fire-fly/Shutterstock.
U.S. News
Ukraine’s Jewish community in danger as Russian troops, supplies mass at border
Due to the sensitivity of the issue and Israel’s good working relationship with the two countries, officials are treading carefully to avoid appearance that they’re taking sides.
Jan. 31, 2022
Israel Kasnett
An illustration of an Iranian ballistic missile. Credit: Allexxandar/Shutterstock.
World News
Israeli researchers: Iran nuclear breakout could occur ‘within a space of weeks,’ regional cooperation necessary
The main threats facing Israel in 2022 include Iran’s nuclear activity, the conflict with the Palestinians and violence among Israeli Arabs. Institute for National Security Studies researchers now contend that these concerns “are equal in their severity, and that the main challenge is to define an integrated way of dealing with all three.”
Jan. 27, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Palestinians with gas cylinders stand on a rooftop of a house being evacuated by Israeli special forces, in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on Jan. 17, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Antisemitism
EU tries to twist international law to fight eviction of Sheikh Jarrah squatters in Jerusalem
Professor Avi Bell: “The accusation that Israel is committing war crimes with plans to build an Arabic-language special-needs school for Israeli and Palestinian Arab residents of the neighborhood shows that European officials harbor equal contempt for common sense, international law and the Jewish state.”
Jan. 18, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Israeli Police stand guard during a protest against tree-planting by the Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayamet LeIsrael outside the Bedouin village of al-Atrash in the Negev Desert on Jan. 12, 2022. Photo by Flash90.
Israel News
Has situation between Israeli government and Bedouins reached a breaking point?
Millions of Israelis are furious over the government’s caving to the rioting and its alleged plan to recognize these illegal Bedouin encampments situated on state lands, claiming that such capitulation will only lead to further unrest and violence.
Jan. 13, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Israelis from the tourism industry protest in Tel Aviv against the new COVID-19 regulations preventing non-Israelis from entering Israel on Dec. 27, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Culture and Society
Israeli tourism, hit hard by coronavirus closures, optimistically awaits recovery
Even though Israel is now allowing in tourists, “people are still cautious. It will take a few years” before Israel returns to pre-coronavirus numbers, which, in 2019, stood at a whopping 4.5 million tourists, said Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahum.
Jan. 11, 2022
Israel Kasnett
European Union representative Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff walks during a tour of European Union representatives in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Dec. 20, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israel News
Obsessed with Israeli settlements, Americans and Europeans turn blind eye to Palestinian violence
“Instead of focusing on all the obstacles and identifying the most important ones, they are singling out the settlement issue and defining it as the most critical,” says Professor Eytan Gilboa of Bar-Ilan University and a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.
Jan. 10, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett reacts during a discussion on the Electricity Law connecting to Arab and Bedouin towns, during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 5, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Israel News
Israel’s controversial new ‘electricity law’ sparks concern over illegal Arab building
The bill potentially allows more than 130,000 Arab Israelis living on land defined as “agricultural” rather than “residential” to receive electricity, water and phone lines.
Jan. 6, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Hezbollah's supporters at Liberation Day. Bint Jbeil, 25 May 2014. Credit: Gabriele Pedrini/Shutterstock.
Israel News
Lebanon faces dim future as Hezbollah holds the country hostage
IDF Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, a special analyst for the Middle East at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, told JNS that Hezbollah and the Shi’ite Amal party “have done everything possible in order to paralyze the government and impose their rule.”
Jan. 4, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at the Haaretz Democracy Conference in Jaffa, on Nov. 9, 2021. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
News
Gantz makes concessions to Palestinian Authority with no demands in return
“By giving money to the Palestinians, Israel is giving up leverage,” said Maurice Hirsch, head of legal strategies at Palestinian Media Watch.
Dec. 30, 2021
Israel Kasnett
Missiles of Iran’s armed forces, Sept. 9, 2019. Credit: Saeediex/Shutterstock.
World News
Former Mossad official: ‘The closer Iran gets to a nuclear weapon, the more temptation there is to get there’
Sima Shine, former head of the Mossad’s research and evaluation division, and Elliott Abrams, former foreign policy adviser to three Republican U.S. presidents, agree that the military option against Iran is a last resort.
Dec. 23, 2021
Israel Kasnett
Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Oporto, Portugal
Jewish Life
Portugal to digitally process citizenship applications of Jewish descendants
“This is a historic process which is reconnecting the Jewish and Portuguese people who have such a long and illustrious mutual heritage,” said Ashley Perry (Perez), president of the Reconectar organization.
Dec. 22, 2021
Israel Kasnett
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Credit: Sergei Chuzavkov/Shutterstock.
Israel News
Leaders at Kyiv Jewish Forum warn against rising anti-Semitism, explore new ways to combat it
“We know what it means to defend one’s own state and land with weapons in hand at the cost of our own lives,” said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Both Ukrainians and Jews value freedom, and they work equally for the future of our states to become to our liking and not the future others want for us. Israel is often an example for Ukraine.”
Dec. 21, 2021
Israel Kasnett
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