This past summer, waiting in a check-in line before a flight home to Israel from Los Angeles, a gentleman behind me began a conversation with me. A fireman from the state of Utah, he was heading back to northern Israel as a volunteer to fight forest and building fires caused by the constant shelling from
Only an Israeli would start a company in the middle of a war. Yet that’s what the founders of airHaifa did, forming the first new airline in Israel in 35 years. The inaugural flight from Tel Aviv to Eilat was on October 1. Other flights from Haifa and Tel Aviv to Eilat and Larnaca (Cyprus)
Surrounded by critics of Israel, Muslim advisers prominent among them, US President Joe Biden has a spotty history of support for the Jewish state. Already as a young senator in 1982, he threatened to oppose aid for Israel. After the tragedy of October 7 last year, he openly empathized with Israel and its right to
Our system of Western values teaches that if we sit down and negotiate, we can find a solution that is best for everyone. We will compromise if necessary and resolve our differences. That’s the idea behind the United Nations, of course: Providing a forum for reasoned, calm discussion to solve the problems of a region
A few years ago, a woman from Switzerland sent us a request for prayer because her dog was lost. It was an unusual request, but I understood that people love their pets. I am sure we prayed the woman would find her dog. She had put up posters in her neighborhood. I also remember a
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