Daniel Lubetzky

A rally seeking change in Israel’s leadership attracted tens of thousands to Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday night. According to the “Israel Wants Change” event’s organizers, more than 35 thousand people attended. Other officials estimate between 25,000-30,000 protesters turned out to the rally. Keynote speaker, former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, told the crowd that Israel [...]

In an op-ed in USA Today, reprinted immediately below, my friend, advisory Board member and mentor Dennis Ross laid out some very valid concerns on why the world community should not rush into a deal with Iran.  He highlights just some of the questions the US Administration needs to answer to itself and to the [...]

Cynical Israelis may feel they’ve seen it all, especially at election-time, but it’s still an extraordinary experience to witness an Israeli leader being received in the legislature of the world’s superpower as local hero and rock star. Netanyahu was given a royal welcome. At times it seemed as if this was a presidential State of [...]

Three hours earlier, state comptroller Joseph Shapira had released a scathing report on the housing crisis in Israel. Housing prices rose by a staggering 55 percent between 2008 and 2013; Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister during all but one of those years, found “no solution” to the skyrocketing costs, Shapira wrote. Israel’s high cost of living drew [...]

His stated goal is to mobilize Congress to foil what he predicted would be a bad deal between the great powers and Tehran. But the consequence of bitter feuding with the Obama White House has been a dramatic loss of critical support for the prime minister’s position among House and Senate Democrats, by any standard [...]

The group’s director general Amnon Reshef slammed Netanyahu for what he charged were destructive diplomatic policies. “We decided that we need to publicly give our opinion — that the prime minister’s current policy is destroying the covenant with the United States,” Reshef said. “The way to stop a nuclear Iran is by strengthening ties between [...]

In interviews with BuzzFeed News this week, four senior figures in Israel’s security establishment, ranging from military intelligence to the air force, expressed concern over damage being done to what have previously been close-knit ties in intelligence sharing and military strategy. High-ranking security officials have clashed with Netanyahu publicly and often, including over their assessments of the [...]