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Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman spent seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli defense establishment. He is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a member of the Habithonistim-Israel Defense & Security Forum (IDSF) research team, and a participant in the Israel Victory Project.

Masked members of Hamas
The Column
The deradicalization of Gaza and other myths
The recipe for deradicalizing the Strip may be a dangerous pipe dream.
Feb. 19, 2026
Martin Sherman
Palestinians in Gaza
The Column
Much to worry about
Jan. 14, 2026
Martin Sherman
Tucker Carlson
The Column
Strange bedfellows in hate: From Carlson to the Caucasus
Dec. 12, 2025
Martin Sherman
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz speaks at faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Nov. 11, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Opinion
No, not all votes are equal
Blue and White persists in an obsessive effort to include the inimical Joint Arab List in determining the fate of the Jewish nation-state.
Mar. 14, 2020
Martin Sherman
Joint Arab List leader Ayman Odeh (center) and party members Ahmad Tibi (left) and Mtanes Shehadeh arrive for a meeting at the Knesset on Sept. 22, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
March 2 election results: Fickle, faithless, feckless
Beyond making a covenant with a party that not only undisguisedly supports Israel’s most vehement enemies but openly denies its status as a Jewish state, Blue and White has castigated party members who insist on honoring its election pledges.
Mar. 10, 2020
Martin Sherman
Ayman Odeh
Opinion
Time to bar the Joint Arab List
Even a cursory perusal of the official platforms of the alliance reflects a stark rejection of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Feb. 10, 2020
Martin Sherman
A view of the border between Israel and Jordan on Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley, on July 6, 2017. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Opinion
The Trump plan: The good, the bad, the unknown and the untenable
Whether or not it is actually implemented, the “deal” cannot effectively address Israel’s demographic menace, but only perpetuate it.
Feb. 3, 2020
Martin Sherman
Abbas al-Musawi Shrine in Al-Nabi Shayth, Lebanon. It is named for the co-founder and secretary-general of Hezbollah, killed by the Israel Defense Forces in 1992. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Terminating terrorists and assessing assassinations
Israel and the United States have employed targeted assassination both to preempt planned enemy attacks that are about to be carried out and to punish past ones that have already been committed.
Jan. 14, 2020
Martin Sherman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on Jan. 1, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Iniquitous indictments for invented infractions
Like every mortal on the planet, Benjamin Netanyahu is not irreplaceable or unblemished, though his record indicates that he is by far the most capable candidate to lead Israel in these challenging times.
Jan. 5, 2020
Martin Sherman
Trump, Netanyahu
Opinion
In Israel and America: Choreographed coups with the law as a prop
It’s been more about a pursuit of power than a pursuit of justice.
Dec. 27, 2019
Martin Sherman
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman at party headquarters in Jerusalem on election night, Sept. 17, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Israel’s dysfunctional electorate?
To sum up how the third round of elections came about: No one wanted them, almost everyone voted for them, and everyone blamed everyone else, except themselves, for causing them.
Dec. 16, 2019
Martin Sherman
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