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How Much Influence Will Netanyahu Have Over Donald Trump? | Opinion

In May 2018, President Donald Trump famously pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal. It was the undoing of his predecessor, President Barack Obama's,...

15.11.2024 5

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Yaakov Katz

What Israel Proved With Its Most Recent Attack on Iran | Opinion

Israel's early morning assault on Iran Saturday was a historic moment, not only because it marked the first overt Israeli aerial strike against the...

31.10.2024 6

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Yaakov Katz

Even Laser Beams Aren't Enough to Deal With the Drone Threat | Opinion

With systems like Iron Dome, David's Sling, and Arrow, Israel has consistently proven its ability to intercept and neutralize approximately 90 percent...

18.10.2024 3

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Israel Must Protect Its North, but Can It Afford the Price? | Opinion

In 2002, as Hamas launched its first rudimentary rockets at Israel, their range barely stretched a mile, with most of their targets being the Israeli...

17.09.2024 10

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Why Netanyahu Has a Brief Window to Get a Hostage Deal Done | Opinion

The Israeli political calendar has brought Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a rare opportunity to get a hostage deal done with Hamas.

22.08.2024 6

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Yaakov Katz

Israel Must Target Iran at the Same Time as Hezbollah | Opinion

When contemplating the prospect of a wider conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel faces several critical questions. Does it possess sufficient...

03.07.2024 3

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Yaakov Katz

Drafting Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Is a Good Start

The Israeli High Court of Justice's decision to annul the longstanding exemption of ultra-Orthodox Israelis from military service is not merely a...

25.06.2024 9

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Hezbollah Must Be Removed

In the 1950s, Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, established several key principles for how the nascent Jewish state needed to fight its...

20.06.2024 9

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Yaakov Katz

How Israel Can Find Its Way Out of Isolation

In all of its 76 years as a state, it is hard to think of another time when Israel was as isolated as it is today. There have been periods in the past...

29.05.2024 8

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Biden Has an Important Lesson for Israel. Is the Jewish State Listening?

The decision by the Biden administration to withhold weapons from the State of Israel is the realization of one of the Israel Defense Forces' worst...

10.05.2024 40

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Why Israel Can't Count Solely on Its Missile Defenses

The recent military clash between Iran and Israel marks an historic moment in modern warfare. With an unprecedented barrage of more than 300 drones,...

26.04.2024 10

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Yaakov Katz

Israel's Intelligence Agencies and Military Need More Civilian Oversight

In July 2004, the 9/11 Commission—set up to probe the Al Qaeda attacks against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001—proposed sweeping changes to...

10.04.2024 5

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The Day the U.S. Didn't Say 'No' to Israel's Critics

The writing has been on the wall for weeks. That was the feeling in Jerusalem on Monday evening after the United States abstained during a vote at the...

25.03.2024 10

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Yaakov Katz

A More Accurate Accounting of the War in Gaza

Thirty-thousand Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza. It's a number you hear everywhere when talking about Israel's war against Hamas, and it is...

19.03.2024 10

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A Brief Window for Israel to Integrate Its Arab and Jewish Communities

In May 2021, Israel's mixed Jewish-Arab cities exploded in violence. Streets in Lod, Haifa, Acre, Ramla, and Jerusalem became battlegrounds for...

23.02.2024 5

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The War in Gaza May End Soon, but Not the Fighting

On March 27, 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber disguised as a woman walked into the Park Hotel in the Israeli seaside town of Netanya and blew...

06.02.2024 3

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In Time of Need, Will These Men Serve Their Country?

Fifty percent of Israelis do not serve in the IDF and only 1 percent of Israelis serve in the reserves. This is the result of the exemption given to...

18.01.2024 8

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What's the End Game for Gaza? Netanyahu Must Spell It Out

Since Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israel's prime minister for the first time in 1996, he has built up a career as someone who has consistently been...

03.01.2024 40

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Three Options for Israel to End the War in Gaza

American pressure on Israel is mounting to reduce the intensity of Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Over the last week, Secretary of...

14.12.2023 8

Newsweek

Yaakov Katz

Israel Must Fix Its Deadly Overreliance on Defense Technologies

Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip caught the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the middle of a technological revolution. For the last 10...

04.12.2023 8

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