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The Grammar of ‘and’: Loving Israel Without Choosing Between Exile and Home

Menachem Creditor

Struggle Toward Repair; Ascend Toward Miracles

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Israel, Somaliland, and the Arab World’s Missed Opportunity

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Why Zionism Matters

Leon Harry Silver

Parsha VaYechi – Stand Up For Yourself

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Hashomer AI

Yosef B. Moran

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Ben Gvir is Failing – and the Negev Is Paying the Price

Harel Ben-Michael

Mafias of the Startup Nation

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Warren J. Blumenfeld

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Ira Straus

What My Daughter Taught Me About Belonging

Vailma Roca Fernandez

Life as a Pro-Israel Advocate in The Netherlands

Sabine Sterk

Divine Plan

Kenneth Cohen

Antisemitism might soon disappear

Yoseph Janowski

The Widening Wedge: Jewish Identity Targeted

Karen Feldman

Ignore Somaliland and Imperil NATO

Dillon Hosier

Iron Beam and the End of Cheap War

Mordechai Levin

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Benjy Morgan

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Robert Satloff

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Shlomo Maital

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David Haldane

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Kenny Schiowitz

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Simcha Feuerman

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A State, Finally: Israel Recognises Somaliland

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