BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,819, November 15, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The claim that management of the COVID-19 crisis by the IDF’s Home Front Command would have resulted in a far better outcome is based on the illusion that all …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,761, September 27, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Two messages continue to ring out on the eve of the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. One concerns the severity of the intelligence failure at the time, and …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,741, September 10, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: With the door (temporarily?) closed on extending sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, the time has come to return to the logic of what used to be known …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,725, September 1, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Mixed up in the controversy between Netanyahu’s supporters and opponents is the scholarship program of the Wexner Foundation, which finances a master’s degree in public administration at Harvard University …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,715, August 28, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The security barrier between Israel and the West Bank constitutes one of the most prolonged and expensive projects Israel has ever carried out, and its adverse implications for Israel’s …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,672, August 3, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: During chaotic crises, the systems in place to handle such events must stay cognizant of their limitations. As the Talmudic sages taught in their aggadot about the Destruction of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,633, July 9, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At critical junctures a national leadership should be expected to uphold its country’s sovereign right to pursue its own vital interests, even in the face of heavy international pressure.…
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,630, July 7, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s National Outline Plan (NOP 35) has effectively frozen Jewish settlement in the Galilee and the Negev and spurred massive illegal building and land occupancy by the Negev’s Bedouin …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,627, July 6, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The moment the issue of extending Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and parts of the West Bank emerged, it took on a dynamic of its own. Not only …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,610, June 19, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Contrary to the alarming charge that the application of sovereignty over parts of the West Bank would transform Israel into a binational state, doing so would not affect 95% …
