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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.
Lisa Stradelbauer, Canada’s ambassador to Israel, said at the current rate, it will take “300 years for there to be gender equality worldwide.”
Neither Fatah nor Hamas appear to be grateful for the life-saving assistance that they received from the Jewish state.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an attorney who heads Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, stated explicitly that it is against state law for a public research institution like the University of Maryland at College Park to divest from Israel.