Analysis

Iran has not yet provided the IAEA with a plausible explanation for any of the gross violations of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

The recent return of an Israeli woman who was held captive in Syria after crossing the border has dominated headlines. How does Israel contact the party that is holding its citizen? What are the rules of such negotiations? 

Palestinian parliamentary elections are scheduled for May 22, with a presidential vote set to be held on July 31. How it will turn out is "the million-dollar question."

Establishing coherent US policy regarding brewing conflict in the eastern Mediterranean should be a priority for the new administration.

The International Criminal Court is a broken, corrupt political institution. The Biden administration needs to adopt serious measures against it and the Palestinian leadership for the protection of US national security interests and allies, including Israel.

With the Palestinians poised to hold elections for the first time in 15 years, will Hamas wrestle control of the West Bank from PA President Mahmoud Abbas as it did in Gaza in 2007, or will his Fatah rivals get the upper hand?

Poland's conservative ruling party, Law and Justice, has sought to discourage investigations into Polish wrongdoing during the wartime German occupation, preferring instead to stress Polish heroism and suffering. A number of historical institutions have condemned the case, with the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah describing it as a "witch hunt" and a "pernicious invasion into the very heart of research."

"The government must delegate authority and responsibility to the local authorities and actually give municipal leaders the power and authority of enforcement," Prof. Ronit Calderon-Margalit from the School of Public Health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem asserts.

The Israeli government’s new relief package pays 9% of the median income, whereas in the US the figure is between 18% to 60% of the median income. As such, Israel’s coronavirus stimulus appears to be too low.

COVID has shone a spotlight on the disaster created by the Haredi community walling itself off from the rest of Israeli society.