Israel

Makeshift structures are seen at a bedouin encampment south of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Mishor Adumim in the Judean Desert August 19, 2009. Many bedouins living in Israel and the occupied West Bank retain a traditional and nomadic way of life, raising livestock and farming arid land. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (WEST BANK POLITICS SOCIETY) - GM1E58K00LD01

Future Development

A quiet revolution in impact evaluation at USAID

Ariel BenYishay, Rachel Trichler, Dan Runfola, and Seth Goodman

Monday, October 8, 2018

An Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter plane flying above a traffic sign after taking off for a mission in Lebanon from an Israeli Air Force Base in northern Israel in this July 20, 2006 file photo. Israeli warplanes bombed unidentified Syrian targets early on September 6, 2007, causing no damage or casualties, the official Syrian news agency said. Syrian air defences fired at the incoming planes, which crossed into Syria after midnight local time, the agency said. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/Files (ISRAEL) - GM1DWCBQYXAA

Order from Chaos

Will Israel and Iran go to war in Syria?

Daniel L. Byman

Friday, October 5, 2018

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The Palestinian Territories

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Is a two-state solution still possible?

Friday, September 28, 2018

The American and the Israeli national flags can be seen outside the U.S Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC12C5C0CBF0

Order from Chaos

Political donors raise new tensions over Israel

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Reports

A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision on Jerusalem, near the border with Israel in the southern Gaza Strip March 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa - RC1D250522B0

The Palestinian Territories

How the peace process killed the two-state solution

Thursday, April 12, 2018

An Israeli soldier guards an observation tower, July 17, 2005. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic GOT/mk (ISRAEL POLITICS CONFLICT) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - RTXJU89

Intelligence Community

Enigma: The anatomy of Israel’s intelligence failure almost 45 years ago

September 25, 2017

Alia Tunisi (L) and Sharon Suval (2nd L), first grade school teachers, talk to their students during reading hour at the Hand in Hand Arab Jewish bilingual school in Jerusalem December 3, 2014. The Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem presents an almost too-perfect scene in a tense and divided city, where Jews and Arabs do daily business but rarely befriend one other. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Religion & Politics

Tribes, identity, and individual freedom in Israel

Natan Sachs and Brian Reeves

March 2017

Supporters of the far right Bayit Yehudi party headed by Naftali Bennett celebrate at the party's headquarters in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv January 22, 2013. Hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged the bruised winner of Israel's election on Tuesday, claiming victory despite unexpected losses to resurgent centre-left challengers. Netanyahu has traditionally looked to religious, conservative parties for backing and is widely expected to seek out self-made millionaire Bennett, who heads the Jewish Home party and stole much of the limelight during the campaign. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Religion & Politics

Privatizing religion: The transformation of Israel’s Religious-Zionist community

March 2017

An ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, Jewish man walks past Israeli soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem May 26, 2013, marking the end of their basic training in the Israeli Defense Forces. Israel clinched a deal on Wednesday to abolish wholesale exemptions from military service for Jewish seminary students, ending a brief crisis that divided the ruling coalition parties. Picture taken May 26, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION MILITARY POLITICS)

Religion & Politics

Religion, state, and the Jewish identity crisis in Israel

March 2017

Blog Posts

A general view of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives shows the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RC1EDA67DF60

Order from Chaos

Four lessons for the post-Oslo era

Thursday, September 13, 2018

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R) gestures to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (3rd R), as U.S. President Bill Clinton (2nd R) stands between them, following their handshake after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. Also in picture is Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (L). REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99E00JX01

Order from Chaos

The day Israeli-Palestinian peace seemed within reach

Martin S. Indyk

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (sitting 2nd R) signs the Israeli-PLO peace accord as then PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R), then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (L) and then U.S. President Bill Clinton (back C) stand behind him during a ceremony, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99D1UC401

Order from Chaos

The Oslo Accords at 25: A personal reflection

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Thursday, September 13, 2018

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Multimedia

Labour party candidate Stav Shaffir (C) stands with supporters during a mock election at a high school in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv December 6, 2012. The leaders of a grassroots social protest movement that swept Israel in 2011, one of them Shaffir, have shot to the top of a rejuvenated Labour party that polls say will at least double its power in a Jan. 22 general election that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud is forecast to win. Picture taken December 6, 2012

Israel

An Israeli Knesset member’s perspective on activism and politics

Stav Shaffir, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

A man stands on the rubble of damaged buildings after an airstrike on the rebel-held town of Mesraba in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria, November 26, 2017. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh - RC149CB801E0

Iran

Russia, Iran, and the future of Syria

Itamar Rabinovich, Amos Harel, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

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U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House in Washington D.C., U.S., May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RTS14ZFG

How not to make Palestine great again

The American Interest Monday, September 17, 2018

The state of Israel needs partners to advance its goals in the world, but Israel also represents ‘an ethos’ which doesn’t sit comfortably with dodgy characters such as [Philippines President Rodrigo] Duterte....Exercising leadership also means choosing one’s friends prudently.

Shalom Lipner Wall Street Journal Monday, September 3, 2018

A Palestinian boy holding a Palestinian flag takes shelter from Israeli gunfire during clashes with Israeli soldiers at Gush Kitaf Jewish settlement near Khan-Younes south of the Gaza Strip November 7, 2000.JFL/FMS - RP2DRHYJWXAA

The Oslo Accords at 25, the second intifada at 18

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (L), as U.S. President Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99D1UCD01

The Oslo Accords at 25: The view from Jordan

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (L) waves with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (R) and U.S. President Bill Clinton after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99E00KE01

The Oslo Accords at 25: The Syria track that could have been

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Hezbollah fighters put Lebanese and Hezbollah flags at Juroud Arsal, Syria-Lebanon border, July 25, 2017. Picture taken July 25, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC11019C4D00

Another war in Lebanon?

Daniel L. Byman

Friday, September 7, 2018