Writings by David Ha’ivri

      Dear President Trump, 2500 years ago, Cyrus II of Persia, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, called upon the People of Israel to return to Jerusalem and to reestablish...

Since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, the Arab refugee claim has remained a core excuse for the Arab nations to postpone recognizing Israel and moving on to some...

Relaunching talks between Israel and the PLO chief Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) Many questions arise as these negotiations begin. What is the real goal of the “Two State Solution”?...

Doesn’t it sound a little silly, not to mention paranoid, when we kvetch all day about the world being against us, and then when we discover people who actually like us, we...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a response to a provocative pro-Israel OpEd that was published on an anti-Zionist website. After consulting with some wise friends, I decided to place my...

We have already lost count of the number of times that US Secretary of State John Kerry has visited Israel over the past few months. Is it ten or eleven times? Israeli patriots...

A Bar Mitzvah Message for Judah, In the Jewish tradition, Bar or Bat Mitzvah is the time of coming of age, when an individual is considered big enough to be responsible for their...

In October of this year, the European Council passed a resolution entitled “Children’s Right to Physical Integrity.” This effort –  spearheaded by German MP Marlene Rupprecht...

In a region with about 8 months of summer and barely enough days of rain to provide the water needed for consumption by the local population, it is not unusual for the rabbis to...