BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,101, July 21, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel needs to formulate a new Jewish-Israeli story that is attuned to the challenges of the future. This requires a political leadership with a lofty spiritual stature.
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BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,099, July 19, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The demands issued by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas show a clear intention to turn the clock back. Israel cannot accept these dictates, which would have been rejected out …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,092, July 9, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israeli society must recognize the intensity of the new threats that surround it and critically assess the conventional wisdom that the era of big threats has passed and Israel …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,088, July 5, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The establishment of the Evyatar outpost is a direct continuation of the activist pioneering ethos that the Yishuv leadership developed during the Arab riots of 1936-39, and that has …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,068, June 9, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Surrendering to Hamas threats and canceling the flag parade in Jerusalem constitutes a grave violation of Israeli sovereignty that will lead to no less serious acts of extortion …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,059, May 31, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The IDF’s defensive achievements against Hamas in the most recent war were groundbreaking. Yet for all its operational superiority, it will have a hard time defending Israel within …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,042, May 21, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s relations with Hamas in the coming months will be tested first and foremost by the strengthening of its sovereignty in Jerusalem. This makes the risk of a renewed …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,037, May 19, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The carnage wrought by Israel’s Arabs in support of Hamas, at a time when the Islamist terror organization is raining thousands of missiles on Israel’s population centers, is …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,032, May 16, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In order to meet the external and domestic security challenges confronting it, Israel must promptly take two main steps: substantial expansion of the IDF’s order of battle (by increasing …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,987, April 6, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Passover was always a holiday of redemption, but in Israeli political discourse, the word “redemption” has been notable by its absence for decades. Around the Seder table, it must …
