Calev Ben-David

TRIBUTE: Stuart Schoffman, simply put, was a genius and a mensch, a combination that doesn’t occur as often as it should in this world. His memory will be a blessing.

Israeli ministers just can’t wait for the American president-elect to take office to begin preparing the ground for a new US-Israel relationship – and more settlements.

Au-delà des phrases chocs de la campagne électorale, la politique du futur président américain dans la région n’a pas l’air très cohérente

Not many foreign pop stars could be eulogized by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as someone who “loved the people of Israel and the State of Israel.”

Beyond the rhetoric of his campaign, it is unclear what kind of approach the president-elect will take to the region.

This election has clearly unsettled no small number of Jews in the U.S., and a share of those watching it unfold from abroad, as well.

Tel Aviv’s Habimah Theater causes a stir with a planned performance in the West Bank.

At the US presidential debate, the candidates promise more than they can deliver on the Syrian crisis.

The 9/11 attacks did not noticeably influence discourse abroad on the Israeli/Arab conflict, or generate any additional sense of identification with victims of terrorism here, for several reasons.

Netanyahu only made things worse for himself by trying to exploit the situation to embarrass Transportation Minister Israel Katz.