Isranet Daily Briefing

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, August 21st 2024

RESILIENCE AND TRUST   Swords of Iron Survey Results – August 2024:  Mora Deitch, Rebecca Meller, Idit Shafran Gittleman and Anat Shapira, INSS, Aug. 21, 2024 — Since the Swords of Iron war outbreak, the Institute for National Security Studies regularly conducts public opinion surveys to examine national resilience and public trust trends. *** Thinking the Thinkable: Israel’s […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, August 20th 2024

NO SURPRISE Columbia University Restores Dozens of Pro-Hamas Rioters to Good Standing, New Report Says:  Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, Aug. 19, 2024 — Columbia University punished very few of the students who were involved in occupying an administrative building and staging a riot which prompted the university, fearing an outbreak of racial violence, to revoke a Jewish professor’s […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, August 19th 2024

“Do these judgments suggest a leadership in Jerusalem that believes in the potential net benefits of a measured nuclear retaliation? Or do they suggest a leadership in Jerusalem that believes such a reprisal would bring upon Israel variously intolerable levels of conventional Iranian destruction? And is the leadership in Tehran expectedly rational?” – Louis Rene Beres […]

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Friday, August 16th 2024

SHABBAT READING   The Shema: Instructions for a Romance with YHWH:  Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, The Torah.com, Aug. 11, 2022 — The Shema[1] is taken from the book of Deuteronomy, and named after the first word of the passage: דברים ו:ד שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְ־הוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְ־הוָה אֶחָד. Deut 6:4 Hear, O Israel! YHWH is our God, YHWH alone. Following this […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, August 15th 2024 / Thursday, August 15th 2024

Citation de la semaine:   “Nous avons appris de l’Europe que l’apaisement ne marche pas. Nous ne voulons pas que le nouvel Hitler de l’Iran refasse au Moyen-Orient ce qui s’est passé en Europe » Mohammad Ben Salman, Prince héritier d’Arabie Saoudite (faisant allusion à l’ayatollah Ali Khamenei)                  […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, August 15th 2024

‘So Unimaginable and So Abhorrent’: Federal Judge Orders UCLA to Stop Aiding Activists Enforcing Jew-Free Zones on Campus:  Zach Kessel, National Review, Aug. 14, 2024 The AAUP Abandons Academic Freedom:  Cary Nelson, SPME, Aug. 13, 2024 The Boycott Against Israel Is Spreading into New Corners of Society:  Anat Peled and Carrie Keller-Lynn, SPME, July 10, 2024 War College: How […]

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Wednesday, August 14th 2024 / Wednesday, August 14th 2024

Iran’s Profound Predicament:  Salem Alktebi, Israel Hayom, Aug. 11, 2024 China Is Now Goading Iran into Attacking Israel:  Gordon G. Chang, Gatestone Institute, Aug. 14, 2024 Iran Is Better Positioned to Launch Nuclear-Weapons Program, New U.S. Intelligence Assessment Says:  Laurence Norman and Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, Aug. 9, 2024 Only a Credible Offensive Threat Can Deter […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, August 13th 2024 / Tuesday, August 13th 2024

INCREASING TIES Podcast: J.J. Schacter on the First Tisha b’Av Since October 7:  Tikvah podcast at Mosaic, Aug. 2, 2024 — On the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av in the year 586 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem.    Original Tisha B’Av Documentary: Heroism and Faith amid the […]

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Monday, August 12th 2024

BACKING THE WRONG PONY WATCH:  Elections 2024: What Elites Are MISSING About the Working Class | Think Twice:  JNS TV, July 29, 2024 — So much has been said about Donald Trump’s appeal to blue collar workers since he first came down the escalator to announce his candidacy in 2015. … In this episode of Think Twice, our […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Sunday, August 11th 2024

Citation de la semaine:   « Une armée sans agents secrets est exactement comme un homme sans yeux ni oreilles. » Sun Tzu, L’Art de la guerre _____________________________________________________                                        Table des Matières _____________________________________________________ Iran: les médias expliquent le retard […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, August 9th 2024

SHABBAT READING   The Opening Of Devarim: A Recounting or Different Version of the Wilderness Experience?:  Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber, The Torah.com,  July 1, 2013  — Where does the book of Deuteronomy begin? This may seem like a simple question—surely a book starts at chapter 1 verse 1! But Deuteronomy turns out to be more complicated than […]

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Thursday, August 8th 2024

DARK CLOUDS AHEAD? WATCH:  The Coming Kamala Calamity and Israel: “The Caroline Glick Show” with guest David Wurmser, Ep. 110:  Caroline B. Glick, JNS, YouTube, Aug. 7, 2024 — Prepare to be rattled by the harsh realities Israel must confront to emerge victorious from the current crisis. American foreign policy specialist David Wurmser joins “The Caroline Glick Show” […]