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Plato is attributed with stating that we must be kind to everyone, as we don’t know what people are going through. In Judaism the ultimate true...
Yesterday, I visited the ruins of Kibbutz Be’eri with soldiers in my IDF unit. As I saw the scenes of barbaric devastation, I recalled the poem...
The national spirit is at an all time high. We all realize that we are fighting a war against absolute evil that threatens not only our tiny Jewish...
As a lifelong Liverpool fan, I was extremely disappointed with our star player, Mohamad Salah’s, response to the terror war we are currently...
What can I do? This was the first thought that went through my mind when I woke up last Shabbat to an air raid siren and the terrible news just kept...
Why won’t the BBC use the “T” word to describe those evil barbarians who shoot thousands of unguided missiles at (Israeli) civilian population...
This harrowing and shocking post is from a good friend of mine, and fellow Tour Guide, Ralph Lewinsohn, who made aliyah from Namibia and has raised...
One of the enduring images of the current relentless terror war from the Hamas controlled (for now) Gaza Strip is that of the “Iron Dome”...
This week I closed an emotional circle which began in East Africa eight years ago. I reunited with Queen and her mother, Grace, at the “Save a...
As September draws to a close we pause to remember the fateful days fifty years ago when the Jewish State was hanging on by a thin olive-green thread....
This year the State of Israel marks fifty years since the Yom Kippur War. Israeli intelligence and strategic planners were caught by surprise on the...
Tal Brody recently celebrated his 80th birthday. Brody helped snap the country out of its deep funk following the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He was captain...
This week there was tremendous excitement as the Israeli Antiquities authority revealed that it had uncovered four remarkably preserved Roman swords...
Recently I returned from a mini break to Malta. There are so many wonderful things to say about this small Mediterranean nation only a short flight...
On Tisha b’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, in 2006 Michael Levin z”l, the only American/Israeli casualty of the Second Lebanon War,...
Let history not repeat itself. Witnessing the scenes in the week of Tisha B’Av in Jerusalem as Israel tears itself apart over the Judicial reform...
Max Steinberg was, until nine years ago a name most of us were unfamiliar with. He was one of the few thousand of Chayalim Bodedim (“lone...
Today, as Americans celebrate July 4th, here in Israel we remember that on America’s bicentennial, Yonatan Netanyahu and the IDF troops in Uganda on...
Last week I was honoured and moved to be guiding three generations of the Brand family in Israel for a Bat Mitzvah trip. What made this even more...
I have just finished guiding one of the most memorable Israel experience trips I have ever had the fortune to work with in my professional career. ...
As we celebrate 75 years of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) it is difficult to comprehend how modest were the beginnings of the much vaunted IAF. Back...
If the holy city of Jerusalem had fallen in the eighth century BCE it would have meant the end of Judaism and altered the course of human history. ...