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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.

Opinion
The assault on Israel as the ‘Jewish state’
Non-Jews—whether of a different religion, nationality or ethnicity—can be and are full citizens. In fact, 15 Arabs are members of the Knesset.
Mar. 10, 2020
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Sanders in our eyes
One could argue that to be pro-Israel is to reduce its administrative control over Judea and Samaria. But reducing Israel’s geographical area has not proven to be a good move or effective. The P.A. is still a terrorist entity, thinking and acting like one.
Dec. 23, 2019
Yisrael Medad
Screenshot of New York Police Department security footage showing a milk crate being thrown at the windows of a synagogue in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. Source: Screenshot.
Opinion
A rabbi who thinks anti-Jewish violence isn’t anti-Semitic
She seems to be delving into hair-splitting definitions in order to keep the focus primarily on only one source of anti-Semitism.
Dec. 19, 2019
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Was that an anti-Semitic letter in ‘The New York Times’?
Once again, It’s the fault of the Jews ... Jews who are browbeaten, isolated, pushed, spat upon and their civil rights, including free assembly and speech, curtailed or even denied.
Dec. 13, 2019
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Peter Beinart’s fine art of distraction
Arabs who support the idea of an Arab Palestine engage in falsification of history, identity theft and something even worse than bigotry. And a Jew supporting them is no friend of Zionism—no matter how much he claims to be one.
Dec. 2, 2019
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
The EU court courts BDS
Despite protestations, the European Union wishes to point potential consumers in the direction of boycotts. There can be no other reason.
Nov. 12, 2019
Yisrael Medad
An Israeli security guard at his post at the Bat Ain settlement in Gush Etzion. Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90.
Opinion
Rabbi Jacobs, Eretz Yisrael and the reformatting of Reform Judaism
The Midrash makes it clear that the Bible specifically notes land purchases and transactions, so that nations can never castigate the Jewish people and say, “You are occupying stolen territory.”
Nov. 4, 2019
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
Young Jews: Taking a wrong turn at the wrong intersection
They seem to prefer a false intersectionality paradigm, seeking unity and comradeship with movements, politicians and leaders who couldn’t care less for Jews as Jews. And they could care even less for Israel.
Oct. 7, 2019
Yisrael Medad
Shiloh inscription as displayed at the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, Aug. 1, 2014. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Yes, a biblical right
From Shiloh comes a call to all humankind—Jews and non-Jews—to recognize the right and obligation of the Jewish people to live in its historic homeland and for all nations to act with goodness.
Sep. 24, 2019
Yisrael Medad
A mock-up of the First Station cable-car station in Jerusalem, which is currently in approval phases. Source: Jerusalem Development Authority.
Opinion
‘The New York Times’ hang-up over Jerusalem
Michael Kimmelman should occupy himself more with architecture, and less with politics and history.
Sep. 16, 2019
Yisrael Medad
View of an outpost situated near the Israeli settlement of Shiloh, outside of Jerusalem in 2014. Credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.
Opinion
A need to awake from an evil enchantment
Jews can assimilate, and they can disappear, and they can establish forms of religious practice as they wish. What they cannot do is claim that their Judaism is more appropriate and more correct.
Sep. 9, 2019
Yisrael Medad
Minister of Strategic Affairs pours wine from Judea and Samaria at Israel Kongress in Frankfurt, together with the head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council David Elhayani and Palestinian human-rights activist Baseem Eid. Credit: Jordan Valley Regional Council.
Opinion
The EU’s skewed definition of origin labeling
Why would “Judea and Samaria” on a label not suffice? After all, those names are the historical terms. “Judea” is in the New Testament, so it’s not just a Jewish thing.
Aug. 29, 2019
Yisrael Medad
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