Myths and Facts about Settler violence
July 10, 2025 | Alana Schetzer
No one should deny that settler violence is real. Moreover, there is good reason to urge the Israeli government and authorities to do more to ensure that the relatively small number of settlers responsible – generally estimated to be no more than a few hundred out of a settler population of some 450,000 – are caught and prosecuted. But one does not have to share Regavim’s pro-settler agenda to see that the numbers being used in most media reports on the subject, derived from UN data, amount to a complete misrepresentation of the reality of this phenomenon.
Israeli defence technology the rising star of Operation Rising Lion
July 8, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
Israel’s 12-day aerial war with Iran between June 13 and June 24 – known in Israel by the name “Operation Rising Lion” – was a remarkably successful campaign in many ways, beginning with the opening strike that eliminated five groups of targets across the country almost simultaneously.
Weekend Hebrew media update: Gaza, Iran and Israel
June 27, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
Following the apparent conclusion of the 12-day Israel-Iran war, AIJAC once again brings you rare and exclusive interviews, fresh analysis and commentary from Hebrew Israeli media as some weekend reading.
Inside Israel’s strike on Iran: The intelligence coups that made it possible
June 27, 2025 | Ilan Evyatar
According to Israeli sources, planning for the strike formally began in late 2024 – at the height of the war with Hezbollah – when Israeli intelligence recognised a convergence of opportunity, urgency and readiness
War Update: Operation Rising Lion – Were the goals achieved?
June 25, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
Today’s AIJAC Iran war update once again brings you rare and exclusive interviews, fresh analysis and commentary from Hebrew Israeli…
War Update: Operation Rising Lion – Will the ceasefire hold?
June 24, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
Today’s AIJAC Iran war update once again brings you rare and exclusive interviews, fresh analysis and commentary from Hebrew Israeli…
War Update: Operation Rising Lion – US joins the fight
June 23, 2025
Today’s AIJAC Iran war update once again brings you rare and exclusive interviews, fresh analysis and commentary from Hebrew Israeli…
War Update: Operation Rising Lion – Soroka Hospital struck
June 19, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
Today’s AIJAC Iran war update once again brings you rare and exclusive interviews, fresh analysis and commentary from Hebrew Israeli…
War Update: Operation Rising Lion: June 18, 2025
June 18, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
Today’s AIJAC Iran war update once again brings you rare and exclusive interviews, fresh analysis and commentary from Hebrew Israeli media.
War Update: Operation Rising Lion: June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
Today’s AIJAC Iran war update once again brings you rare and exclusive interviews and analysis from both the English and Hebrew Israeli media, along with a glimpse into the lives of Israelis under missile attack.
Five timely takes in the Hebrew media on the war with Iran
June 16, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
At a time when Israeli cities are coming under unprecedently large and prolonged ballistic missile and drone attacks from Iran with no end in sight, the need for timely and accurate analysis and commentary is greater than ever. Unfortunately, the vast majority of such material is available only in Hebrew.
The humanitarian aid funding cuts you never heard about
June 13, 2025 | Alana Schetzer
As AIJAC wrote last week, a UN claim that “Gaza is the hungriest place on earth” is simply false, according to aid agency data… Yemen, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the sites of some of the longest and most tragic wars that have ravaged the world in recent decades, impacted the biggest numbers of people and created the most severe humanitarian crises.
