Climate change and rising military tensions in the Arctic are redrawing global trade routes and alliances, with implications stretching from the frozen north to the Red Sea and beyond.
I don’t know what exactly happened to Aviv Atzili in those final moments that morning and what he managed to do alongside his team in the civilian guard. I can only imagine. They were the last line of defense for Nir Oz.
Israel needs to establish a direct line and support Kurdish forces like PAK, forces who share similar values and are natural allies to Israel.
I arrived in Denver 15 years ago. I always felt safe. The children go to public school wearing necklaces with their names in Hebrew. But now the fear is tangible.
I'm filled with guilt, even though I know it's not my fault. It's not my fault that I was kidnapped, that I survived, that I was released. But if I don't act, don't speak out, that will be my fault. So I speak, I tell, and I hug those I want to hug - to show, to prove, to explain why they must be brought back - now.
Celebration alone is not enough. Jerusalem Day must be a call to action, a moment to build a vision that is both ambitious and practical, not just for the coming decade but for the next half-century.
The Israeli Left longs for peace as the gateway to normalcy, but there is no making peace with a society that turns territorial concessions into Gaza, post-2005.
In assessing leftist hostility to Israel, conflating naïveté with antisemitism helps no one – least of all the Jews.
We are standing at a critical crossroads: education or extinction. Those who forget the past are doomed to relive it - which is why the struggle to preserve the memory of the Holocaust is a moral imperative.
The Taiwan question is a legacy of China’s civil war. Since 1945, Taiwan has not been a foreign colony or under foreign occupation, and there is no question of people’s right to self-determination. Cross-Strait relations are between the central and local authorities, and the future of Taiwan can only be determined by the more than 1.4 billion Chinese people, including Taiwan compatriots.