Josh Hasten

Josh Hasten is the president of the Jerusalem-based Bar-Am Public Relations Firm, specializing in working with non-profit organizations, NGOs and municipalities. Josh recently launched the website www.lettersforisrael.com as a service to assist pro-Israel writers in getting their letters and op-eds published. He is also the host of several radio shows including Israel Hasbara Hour, on www.Israelnationalradio.com. Josh was the CAMERA organization's 2009 Letter Writer of the Year, and resides in Elazar, Israel.

 The writer is interviewed on Newsmax about the situation in Judea and Samaria.

In search of 'settler violence' - opinion

 MK BENNY Gantz speaks during a democracy conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, earlier this month.

The rhetoric surrounding judicial reforms has gone overboard - opinion

 Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza City, on August 21, 2021.

Israel can learn about weakness vs strength in the Middle East - opinion


Supporting the KKL-JNF’s Judea and Samaria policies - opinion

Assuming a KKL-JNF vote will lead to the changes feared by Jacobs, including the endangerment of a two-state solution, then my response would be a resounding “Hallelujah!”

THE FAMOUS KKL-JNF blue box is promoted by a rather tall and lanky David Ben-Gurion impersonator on Independence Day in Tel Aviv in 2009.

The Biden administration’s moral compass on Israel - opinion

In the new administration’s view, building kindergartens for Jewish children in Judea is just as big of a peace deterrent as the Palestinian Authority’s “Pay for Slay” program.

FORMER US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, visit Psagot Winery, near Kochav Ya’acov, in November.

Stand up for all Jewish construction - opinion

Being realistic, automatic EU condemnation of Jewish building isn’t going away any time soon.

A MAN carrying an Israeli flag walks in Jerusalem’s Givat HaMatos neighborhood in November.

Evangelicals and Israel: The Mideast must be viewed through biblical lens

While “unholy alliances” have been formed against Israel between extreme leftists and radical Islamists, those threats have been neutralized by the support of 600,000,000 evangelical Christians.

EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN pilgrims and tourists reach for the sky at a 2019 religious retreat in Nazareth

Tenufa Bakehila - The Israeli non-profit repairing homes, rebuilding lives

For the past 27 years, Tenufa has been working with maintenance professionals in 14 cities, some on staff and some serving as volunteers, in order to provide crucial and necessary repairs.

A Tenufa Bakehila crew in the post-corona era works on a fire-damaged apartment

Agricultural terrorism in Gush Etzion

While agricultural terrorism isn’t a new tactic, it has picked up steam, both in the south and, over the past several weeks, throughout Judea and Samaria, especially here in Gush Etzion.

A field set on fire by Palestinian terrorists using balloons with burning materials attached to them

In Memoriam: Mordechai Goodman

Israel’s ageless quarterback, pizza man, father and friend.

Memorial candles.

Don't destroy the Netiv Avot homes

A deadline looms, residents of the neighborhood, along with the community of Elazar as a whole, have been holding a series of demonstrations calling on the state to intervene and somehow influence.

Bulldozers and earthmoving equipment demolish homes in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the Gaza Strip August 31, 2005.

Count before you build in Area C

The last census that Israel conducted in Area C was in 1997.

GEVAOT in the West Bank where Israel wants to build a fifth West Bank city

It’s time for the UN to go home

It’s time for Israel to act once and for all. It’s time to send the UN home.

U.N. peacekeepers stand guard on the Israel-Lebanon border (2007)