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Rachel Avraham

Rachel Avraham

Rachel Avraham is the CEO of the Dona Gracia Center for Diplomacy and an Israel-based journalist. She is the author of “Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media.”

In a region where alliances often fluctuate with political winds, the stability of ties between Baku and Jerusalem stands out precisely because it has been built quietly and incrementally.
The summer of 2025 marked not only diplomatic confusion; it was when Israel realized that even friends act according to their own interests first.
The Israeli think tank Dor Moriah offers a blueprint for the coastal enclave post-Hamas. Will the U.S. president embrace it?
English language editors are often unaware of the hate their platforms publish in Arabic.
“The Jewish community became a center for everyone. It is a light to the nations,” Rabbi Yosef Wolff, director of the Jewish Community of Kherson Chabad, told JNS.
Mountain, Ashkenazi, Georgian and Sephardi Jews make for a diverse community.
Haredim and Bedouin polygamy both threaten the Jewish state’s future, former Knesset member Michael Oren says at the launch of his new book.
“We must do everything to safeguard this shared home,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
The Tomb of Jonah was not presented to him as a Jewish site, Iraqi historian Omar Mohammed says.