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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.

“There are no bomb shelters, organized information or help from the government like we are used to in Israel,” said Inna Markovitch, wife of Kyiv’s chief rabbi. “People are being advised to go to metro stations which are deep underground, but we live 20 minutes away from the closest metro station.”
Chief Rabbi Yaakov Bleich told JNS that the Jews “are part of the general community. What’s good for Ukraine is good for the Jews of Ukraine. What’s bad for Ukraine is bad for the Jews of Ukraine.”
Israel formally launched a national earthquake early warning system that could alert Israel’s Home Front Command within seconds once it detects earthquake signs.
Nirit Ofir from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University, noted that this particular Gulf state is “much more acceptable than the United Arab Emirates in the eyes of countries with which Israel still does not have diplomatic relations.”
The initiative is being sent with the goal of making the voices heard of hundreds of thousands of Israelis who experienced the rocket terror that targeted them with the intent to maim, injure, terrorize and kill as many people as possible—a war crime and blatant violation of international law.
Yossi Kuperwasser, director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the JCPA, said the May 2021 riots “exposed the intensity of the hostility of some of the Arab population in Israel towards the prevailing order in the state and, in practice, showed their animosity towards Israel’s very existence as a Jewish and democratic state.”
Zvi Magen, a former Israeli ambassador to both Ukraine and Russia, and currently a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, said the Russian president’s main ambition is “to make Russia a global superpower.” That has implications for Israel.
While Gulf students don’t learn about the Holocaust or the long history of Jews in the region, the curriculum does take the view of a changing Middle East.