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Articles
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IT’S RISKY BEING ALIVE THESE DAYS
Lay of the Land reports on the 2023 World Summit on Counter-Terrorism (10-12 September) at Reichman University
By David E. Kaplan
Could the Yom Kippur War of 50 years ago and 9/11 of 22 years ago have been predicted and hence prevented? The World Summit against Counter-Terrorism convenes annually on the anniversary of 9/11 at Israel’s Reichman University bringing together top practitioners and academicians in multifarious fields from across the globe. They engage with their Israeli counterparts to secure a safer tomorrow.
IT’S RISKY BEING ALIVE THESE DAYS
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I SLEEP ILL AT NIGHT
Something is happening in Israel today that fills its citizens with trepidation
By Stephen Schulman
The Israel of 2023 is not the country this writer envisaged when he immigrated in the late 1960s from South Africa, imbued with the idealism of his youth movement. The uptick in venomous verbiage and behavior of government members and their supporters is leaving “a bad smell in the air.”
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WE ARE ALL SIGNATORIES TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
By Yaakov Hagoel, Chairman of the World Zionist Organization
Israel’s ‘Declaration of Independence’ belongs to the people, and besides the 37 actual signatures on it, there are millions more transparent signatures of every citizen. For this writer, “each of us” are no more or no less signatories “with his own special pen, values, stories and hopes.”
WE ARE ALL SIGNATORIES TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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