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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.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
World News
Turkey’s regional ambitions and the strategic challenge for Israel
Turkey’s regional ambitions and the strategic challenge for Israel.
Mar. 18, 2026
Israel Kasnett
Natanz Nuclear Facility, Iran
Analysis
Where is Iran’s enriched uranium now?
Mar. 15, 2026
Israel Kasnett
Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter jets during “Operation Roaring Lion” against Iran, March 2026. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.
Analysis
UN Watch: Strikes on Iran are self-defense, not illegal war
Mar. 11, 2026
Israel Kasnett
The International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Antisemitism
In show of solidarity, Trump defends and protects Israel from International Criminal Court
The United States has made it clear that no international court, especially those led by human-rights violators, would threaten it or its military personnel. It has also made clear that Israel sits safely under American protection.
Apr. 15, 2019
Israel Kasnett
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara addresses their supporters as the the results in the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 09, 2019. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Israel News
Of annexation and Trump’s peace plan, what’s next on the post-Israeli election agenda?
The questions now focus on whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will follow through on his campaign pledge to annex parts of Judea and Samaria, as well as what his election win means for U.S. President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated “deal of the century” to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Apr. 11, 2019
Israel Kasnett
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on Feb. 27, 2019. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.
Israel News
From Russia—with love, but with a few political strings attached
“We will be requested to pay; the Russians believe there are no free lunches,” said Micky Aharonson, former head of the foreign-relations directorate of the National Security Council in Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office.
Apr. 5, 2019
Israel Kasnett
From left: Rylie Maedler, a 13-year-old from Delaware who has used medical cannabis to successfully treat bone tumors; Saul Kaye, CEO and founder of CannaTech and iCAN: Israel-Cannabis; former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, now chairman of the Israeli medical-cannabis company CANNDOC/Intercure; and Yona Levy, CEO of Alvit Pharma, one of Israel’s leading cannabis companies. Photo by Israel Kasnett.
Israel News
Israel is now the land of milk, honey … and cannabis
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, now chairman of the Israeli medical-cannabis company CANNDOC/Intercure, predicted that one out of three people would eventually use some kind of cannabinoid-based product.
Apr. 5, 2019
Israel Kasnett
Israeli political candidates address the “Jerusalem Post pre-election event” in Tel Aviv, April 2019. Photo by Israel Kasnett.
Israel News
As Israel’s election day nears, politicians whet their knives
Sparks fly over pertinent political issues and candidates at “The Jerusalem Post” 2019 Elections Conference, held at the InterContinental David Tel Aviv hotel.
Apr. 4, 2019
Israel Kasnett
Palestinian members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, at a rally in Gaza City celebrating the 31st anniversary of Hamas on Dec. 16, 2018. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Israel News
Does Hamas see Israel’s deterrence waning?
It is wholly possible that the main reason for Israel’s perceived failure in deterrence is due to Hamas’s dissatisfaction with the status quo, even though the terror group is fully aware of its military inferiority compared to Israel.
Apr. 1, 2019
Israel Kasnett
An El Al Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrives at Ben-Gurion International Airport. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Features
El Al takes children with disabilities for a dream flight on its new Dreamliner
The short flight, lasting a bit more than an hour, flew east over Samaria and then turned south over the Dead Sea. It then turned north, flying over the desert until it banked west over Jerusalem and back to Ben-Gurion International Airport.
Mar. 31, 2019
Israel Kasnett
Asian tourists sing and celebrate outside the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on “Jerusalem Day” on May 24, 2017. Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90.
Culture and Society
In growing trend, Israeli tourism is becoming ‘Made for China’
The Economic Research Department of the Israel Hotels Association recently published data for February 2019 on hotel stays compared with the same period over the past two years, and the evidence is clear: Incoming tourism to Israel is decidedly on the rise, and Chinese tourists are helping make it happen.
Mar. 29, 2019
Israel Kasnett
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