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Shuki Friedman

Shuki Friedman

Shuki Friedman, Ph.D., is director-general of JPPI, the Jewish People Policy Institute, and a senior lecturer in law at the Peres Academic Center.

While a new survey shows strong American support for Israel, the younger generation is far more hostile.
Only an effort that goes over the heads of the community’s leadership will be able to provide access to proper education and employment.
Given the current political reality in the U.S., the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s shift may be pragmatic, but it entails risks.
A foreigner visiting Israel might have had the impression that the candidates for the Supreme Court were running for a key political office, not for the highest-level judicial-professional position in the land.
On the way to the recruitment center, every young Israeli will be asking him- or herself: What makes the blood of the exempted “haredim” more precious than mine?