Caravan, Hoover Institution, August 13, 2012 The policy debate on the proper response to the challenges presented by the recent surge in...

Tel Aviv Notes, vol. 7, no. 1, January 10, 2013 Nearly two years after the outbreak of what has become the Syrian civil war, it is...

Foreign Affairs, February 6, 2013 Last week, after two years of watching the Syria crisis unfold with quiet unease [1], Israel departed...

The American Advantage: How Diversity, Autonomy and Philanthropy Define the U.S. University Model by Itamar Rabinovich and C Wright...

Itamar Rabinovich, “Religion, Nation, and State in the Middle East: An Overview.” In: Anita Shapira, Yedidia Z. Stern and Alexander...

The Caravan, July 31, 2013 Morsi’s removal from power and the exacerbation of the conflict over Egypt’s identity and political future add...

INSS Insight No. 499, December 17, 2013 The tide is changing in the Syrian civil war. Bashar al-Assad and his regime are gaining...

Israel is facing a new and changing regional order in the Middle East. How will it respond? Editor’s note: The following article is an...

Article published in: Meir Litvak and Bruce Maddy-Weitzman (editors), Nationalism, Identity and Politics: Israel and the Middle East –...

Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 50, no. 6 (2014), page 851. The late Elie Kedourie and his wife Sylvia G. Haim (Kedourie) have had a...

Israel’s short and turbulent political history is punctuated by critical decisions both taken and not taken by its leaders. In 1948,...

Middle East Memo, no. 34 (Brookings, 29 January 2015) Complexity and ambivalence are inherent in Israel’s relationship with its Middle...

COMPLEXITY and ambivalence are inherent in Israel’s relationship with its Middle Eastern environment. Gaining a more than basic...

The American Interest, June 2015 After years of steering clear of the fight, Syria’s Druze are now in danger of being drawn into the...

Project Syndicate, September 28, 2016 TEL AVIV – In 2006, a year before Shimon Peres was elected as Israel’s president, Michael Bar-Zohar...

The Caravan, March 13, 2017 During the past sixty years, Israel’s relationship with Egypt completed a full cycle. In the late 1950’s in...

MARKAZ - Brrokings, April 17, 2017 A week later, the raid launched by President Trump on a Syrian air force base in response to yet...

MARKAZ, May 11, 2017 In 2012 and 2013 when the “Arab Spring” gave way to the “Arab Turmoil,” the term “the end of Sykes-Picot” came into...

May 2017 Fifty years later, Israel lives and copes with the mixed consequences of the Six Day War. The war ended a grave crisis,...

Markaz, Tuesday, May 30, 2017 From 1963 to 1967, the radicalization of Syrian politics and the frailty of the Syrian state played a major...