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Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad is an American-born Israeli journalist, author and former director of educational programming at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. A graduate of Yeshiva University, he made aliyah in 1970 and has since held key roles in Israeli politics, media and education. A member of Israel’s Media Watch executive board, he has contributed to major publications, including The Los Angeles Times, The Jerusalem Post and International Herald Tribune. He and his wife, who have five children, live in Shilo.

Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with Gaza on May 11, 2018. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
It’s all about eliminationism
There is two-stage subversion project at work against Israel and its Zionist-base ideology. The first stage seeks to cozy up, in a sense, and to equalize, falsely, two movements: Zionism and Palestinianism.
Aug. 15, 2018
Yisrael Medad
View of an outpost situated near the Israeli settlement of Shiloh, outside of Jerusalem in 2014. Credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.
Opinion
Shiloh at 40
As the more recent archaeological digs have proven, carried out since 1980 by Israel Finkelstein, Reut Ben-Arye, Hananyah Hizmi and now Scott Stripling, which even our opponents recognize, the biblical narrative resonates in the findings.
Aug. 10, 2018
Yisrael Medad
In Washington, D.C., Emily Grabelsky, co-chair of the Domestic Policy and Government Affairs Disability Committee for the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), delivers welcome remarks for Jewish Disability Advocacy Day, Feb. 6, 2018. Credit: JFNA via Facebook.
Opinion
Jews in self-destruct mode
The Jewish establishment has collapsed, permitting more and more corrosive machinations to control campus life, communal activities and the institutions that run them.
Aug. 7, 2018
Yisrael Medad
The headquarters of “The New York Times.” Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
‘The New York Times’ loves Jews who hate Israel
I have come to the conclusion, my personal conclusion (and maybe not for the first time), that the premier New York newspaper, The New York Times, from its owners and publishers on down through the senior and middle-level editors and even unto too many correspondents and reporters, simply hates Israel and Zionism.
Jul. 30, 2018
Yisrael Medad
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The nation-state law came just in time
If the concessionists base themselves on the demographic threat (it doesn’t exist, but for argument’s sake, we’ll assume it does) and that “threat” will undermine Israel’s “Jewish character,” why would they oppose a law that strengthens that character?
Jul. 20, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Turkey business
Adnan Oktar would appear to be, well, weird. He has a bevy of females who literally seem entranced with him. Rumors abound. His anti-creationism is out of whack with the rest of science.
Jul. 16, 2018
Yisrael Medad
An anti-Israel BDS movement protest in London. Credit: Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieira via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The Arab-called-Palestinian transformed into a Jew
Redefine Judaism, and it can become anything.
Jul. 2, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Credit: JCPA.
Opinion
The kernel of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute
Parallel to Prince William’s visit and its insult to Jerusalem, there is another round of Trump administration peace-making.
Jun. 25, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Campers making pita on their outdoor oven with recipes received through their Israel @ Camp Resource Box. Credit: iCenter for Jewish Education.
Opinion
If not here, where?
Jewish camps are not to promote assimilation, and certainly not that form of the phenomenon that rejects or is antagonistic to Jewry, Judaism or Israel.
Jun. 12, 2018
Yisrael Medad
E.U. flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The last laugh . . .
The editorial and op-ed columns of certain newspapers and web sites go ecstatic when these foreign observers rap Israel over the knuckles.
Jun. 5, 2018
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Pity the Muslim
Can Jews live in a state of “Palestine”? Can a Jew be a “Palestinian”? And if so, can he then be a Zionist?
Jun. 3, 2018
Yisrael Medad
People watch the military air show during Israel's 70th Independence Day celebrations in Sacher Park in Jerusalem on April 19, 2018. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90
Opinion
When left turns right
Zionist Camp MK Eitan Cabel has turned the left-of-center political landscape into a tizzy. In an op-ed, he called on his party to support an annexation of the “settlement blocs” in Judea and Samaria.
May. 29, 2018
Yisrael Medad
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