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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.

If Arabs do not recognize their misdeeds, they are not going to achieve any of their minimal wishes, much less peace.
The mantra of an impending demographic threat has been a constant of the conflict since 1967. But is it?
Jabotinsky and his genuine followers do grant respect to the Arab residents of the region of Palestine, that is, Eretz-Yisrael.
In both past and future tenses, liberal Jews are faced with a major contradiction of self-identity: If the Western Wall is for prayer and that prayer is for a Temple, what does the it really mean for them?
IfNotNow presents an irrational outlook. For them, the values of the Jewish tradition are to be celebrated as “Jewish cultural diversity,” which really means nothing specific and yet everything.
The Jewish “longing for Zion” is “baseless” he asserts.