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Ashley Perry

Ashley Perry is an adviser to the Middle East Forum’s Israel office. He served as an adviser to Israel’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister from 2009 to 2015. He is president of Reconectar, an organization dedicated to relinking the more than 200 million descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Israel and Jewish life. Originally from the United Kingdom, he moved to Israel in 2001.

After Oct. 7, the revival of Jewish life in the country is a lesson in resistance and rebirth.
“Israel Insider” with Ashley Perry
“Israel Insider” with Ashley Perry
“Israel Insider” with Ashley Perry
“Israel Insider” with Ashley Perry
“Israel Insider” with Ashley Perry
This week’s episode: Are we headed to a civil war?
The nationality law is more than righting a historic injustice; it is about bringing our people closer together again. It is about acknowledging our historic connection and encouraging the writing of a new chapter.
Building an official museum dedicated to the history, culture and exodus of the Jews from Arab and Islamic countries should be a national priority, as well as a moral and ethical imperative.
Without the Sephardi Jews, the modern State of Israel would not exist as we know it.
Unfortunately, this history—the forced exodus of Jews who, along with their descendants, constitute the majority of Jews in Israel—is barely studied, mostly ignored and seemingly of little interest to the general population and even to Diaspora Jewry.