Daniel B. Shapiro is the 19th United States ambassador to Israel—and the third Jew to hold that position—appointed by President Obama in March 2011. Born

March 19. There has been great international uproar, combined with sensational headlines, about the question of Israel attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities. Some favor an attack;

January 9. The cause [of this Munich crisis] was not the existence of minorities in Czechoslovakia; it was not that the position of the Sudeten Germans

Major News  Orna Barbivay is Israel’s first female major-general and the new head of the Israel Defense Force’s Manpower Branch. Previously she served as the

August 3. Things in the Middle East are rarely, if ever, as they seem on the surface. The issue of a Palestinian unilateral declaration of

August 3 Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon is so close a political ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he sometimes seems to be speaking

The news came over the radio on a Thursday evening. Indeed, if you were in downtown Jerusalem, the news blared into the street from radios

January 17. Every Friday, young Jews converge on Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. Participants in the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement, they are rallying to protest