Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: Former temporary, caretaker, unelected Prime Minister Yair Lapid did enormous harm to Israel, American Jewry and U.S.-Israel relations during his Passover trip to the U.S. by demonizing Israel’s democratically-elected government as “extremist” and by telling American Jews, Jewish leaders and Democratic […]

By Jack Engelhard (APRIL 10, 2023 / ARUTZ SHEVA) By this time, everybody who reads Arutz Sheva is aware that a terrorist attack in the Jordan Valley took the lives of two Israeli sisters, Rina, 15, Maia, 20. They are the daughters of Rabbi Dee, whose wife Leah (Lucy) has been hospitalized for critical injuries […]

By Jonathan S. Tobin (MARCH 31, 2023 / JNS) In the aftermath of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s waving of the white flag on his government’s efforts to pass judicial reform, his opponents have been taking some victory laps. Those who took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands, blocked highways, pulled money out of the country […]

By Morton A. Klein (APRIL 4, 2023 / JERUSALEM POST) The Israeli government’s decision to delay enacting badly-needed, reasonable, democratic judicial reforms brings to mind the famous adage, “justice delayed is justice denied.” Delaying the judicial reform can enable the court to continue to ignore laws passed by Israel’s elected government; decide cases based on a judge’s subjective […]

By TOI Staff and Jacob Magid (MARCH 30, 2023 / TIMES OF ISRAEL) White House Republican hopeful Nikki Haley and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio bashed U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday for his rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s highly contentious judicial overhaul. “It’s outrageous for Joe Biden to lecture Israel on […]