I recently wrote an article about the difficult period that Israel is facing (Iran, Syria, Hamas etc..) yet how I am proud to be here, despite the dangers. This article generated a tremendous response from you – the readers – who emailed me incredible words of support and motivation. Please allow me to share just two of the many responses I received. I hope they put a smile on your face, the way they did to me. A little background is necessary for the first letter. The year w

Ask your fellow Jew the following question and see if he/she answers it correctly: “Who were the people lucky enough to leave Egypt and actually enter the Land of Israel 40 years later?” My guess is that the overwhelming answer will be the following: “The only ones who left Egypt and entered Israel were those who were under 20 years of age at the time of the Exodus, plus Yehoshua and Caleb. This was due to the tragic Sin of the Spies and the subsequent punishment by Hashem th

Why did we predict Trump's victory a year and a half ago? Why, although we are pleased that he won, do we understand that the danger is as great as the opportunity that Trump presents? Why were the polls wrong? And what does all this mean for the Zehut party? A year and a half ago, when the Republican primaries were just getting started, I landed at the Miami airport with my friend, Shmuel Sackett. The televisions were broadcasting a CNN report on Donald Trump's sweeping vict

NFL star Colin Kaepernick made lots of headlines recently when he declared that he would not stand during the singing of the national anthem. His comments were very controversial and the airwaves lit up with comments, suggestions and non-stop chatter about his position. Even though he is the quarterback for San Francisco (backup quarterback, actually) his comments made the front page of New York newspapers and was the lead item on Fox News for many days. His words gained mome

Israel is the only country in the world where there are more trees in the ground by the end of each year than at the beginning! I am proud to say, that Baruch Hashem – in my small way, I am a part of that reality. How does a boy born and bred in New York grow up to help plant over 120,000 new fruit trees in Israel? Let me explain. In 1999 I received a phone call from Ariel Ben-Sheitrit who lives in the beautiful town of Yitzhar. He had a dream of becoming a wine-maker and wan

Not only the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11. An entire concept collapsed with them. The entire idea of the modern nation-state, which beheads the king, confines God to the church interior and enthrones man and society instead - all collapsed like a house of cards to the call of Allah-hu-akbar emanating from the cockpit just a second before the impact that shook the world. The president of the one and only world power, the standard-bearer of the ideology of liberty and prosperi

Not likely. True, the radical leftist Ha’aretz newspaper explicitly fantasizes about a coup. And until just a short while ago we had a Defense Minister who echoed the Ha’aretz stand and called upon IDF officers to publicly express their disagreement with Israel’s government. But no, it does not seem that a military coup would take place in Israel – simply because, in many ways, the army already rules here. Israel is an army that has a state, much more than it is a state with

I would imagine that in most parts of the world, if you want to know what is happening, you need to read the newspapers and talk to experts. In Israel, however, that is not what you do. For years, people found out the real news from taxi drivers but today, in the modern world, the #1 expert to talk to is… the lifeguard at the beach! I don’t go to the beach too much, so talking to lifeguards is not something I usually do, but last week I attended the bar mitzvah of a close fri

It’s official! The World Health Organization just released its “Global Health Observatory” report and Japan is the #1 country with the longest life expectancy on Planet Earth! Yey… I always knew sushi was healthy!! According to the report, people tend to live to the ripe old age of 83.7 in Japan. Switzerland is in second place at 83.4, then comes Singapore at 83.1, Italy is next at 82.7 and in 5th place it’s… Israel at 82.5!!! I must admit that while my personal goal is 120,