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Watching, waiting, and worrying

Whether Prime Minister Sharon lives or dies, we are all already in mourning. Like many Israelis, I was watching television last Wednesday evening when it

An Israeli perspective

Bar mitzvahs and weddings don’t have to be extravagant affairs.As an antidote to the $100,000 bar mitzvahs that have become de rigueur in certain American

A model for Arab-Israeli peace

Patients don’t know whether the doctor who saved their lives is Jewish or Arab.This column is being written literally from the bottom of my heart.

The name is Bond. Itzik Bond.

by SUSAN KARLIN Read the story as it appeared in Forbes:Page 1|Page 2|Page 3 Israel, by necessity, has become the hotbed for counterterrorism research. Innovating

On freedom and democracy

Israel is a shining example of the democracy which other nations aspire to. Two weeks ago, the British magazine The Economist published a feature about

Winds of political change in Israel

The time to rethink our electoral process is now.Statistics don’t lie. In 57 years of existence, there have been 30 governments in Israel, an average

A Jerusalem mosaic

Hospital emergency rooms are the great equalizer of Israeli society.Maia’s scream shattered the false calm of an early fall Jerusalem morning. She was clutching her

Keeping the covenant

Ten years after Rabin’s death, democracy can’t be taken for granted.The word ‘covenant’ (brit in Hebrew) appears in over 200 places in the Bible. It

Cannabis Against Cancer

While there is still no real cure for cancer, every day researchers move a step closer to finding that cure. Twenty-five-year old Natalya Kogan, a

Four years of ISRAEL21c

We are having an impact far beyond what we originally imagined.Every new organization begins with a dream: a vision of what it hopes to accomplish.

Trading with Israel

Smaller states like New Hampshire have a good reason to develop business ties. With a population of fewer than seven million – 81 percent of