Amb. Shimon Stein is a Senior Fellow at the INSS and a former deputy director general of Israel's Foreign Ministry and ambassador to Germany.
Yad Vashem should stop dirtying its hands. It should focus on fulfilling its mandate, keep out of partisan politics, and keep away from politicians who use and abuse Holocaust memory
The prime minister needs a win in the next elections, and initiating a major conflict with Iran may be his only hope to convince Israelis that there is no alternative to his leadership
Iran and Israel would never volunteer to place crucial national security interests in the Kremlin's hands. But they need a third party to umpire their conflict in Syria – and there’s no other option
The Israeli public and its leaders are in love with Trump. That drunken over-identification with a president actively seeking the demise of a liberal world order does not serve longer-term Israeli interests at all
No ‘moderating' dialogue is possible with Europe’s populist, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim 'axis' - only collaboration. And that’s what Israel has chosen
After its improper, evasive, even complicit responses to Charlottesville, to Trump and to Hungary's anti-Semitic anti-Soros campaign, it's no surprise that Israel's response to neo-Nazis in the Bundestag is a deafening silence
PM Netanyahu endorsed a campaign whose intent was clear: Soros, the Jew, and Orban's hate-figure, is Hungary's Enemy Number One. Hitler would have been gratified
Aligning itself with Trump will not only further tarnish Israel's image but also, betray the very foundation on which Israel was established.
Progress on halting Iran's nuclear program critically depends on U.S. determination and strategy. But it's still an open question whether Obama even wants 2013 to be the year of decision, with all the serious consequences that that implies.