New Articles in English

Dr. Alexandra Herfory-Mischler, Research Fellow, wrote  with Andrew Barr an article about "Daesh's Visual Communication propaganda in its execution videos"

Published on Sage Journals

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Dr. Giora Eliraz, Associate Fellow , was interviewed in an article on "Indonesian exporter of Islam"

 

Published on AIJAC

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Prof. Naomi Chazan, Research Fellow and Former Academic Director, lectured at MSU holds its largest Israel conference as new Serling Institute is launched.

Published on Jewish News

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Dr. Alexandra Herfroy-Mischler and Dr. Elie Friedman wrote an article about The ‘blame game frame’: Ethical blame patterns and media framing upon negotiations failure in the Middle East Studying an Occupied Society: Social Research, Modernization Theory and the Early Israeli Occupation, 1967–8

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A new and groundbreaking article by our Doctoral Fellow, Omri Shafer Raviv, in Journal of Contemporary History.

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Hitler’s would-be assassins weren’t war criminal

Dr. Danny Orbach, a Research Fellow at the Institute wrote an article about the German officers who tried to kill Hitler. 

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Nationality law makes Israel's Druze second-class citizens

Dr. Yusri Hazran, Associate Fellow wrote an aritcle about the Druze Position folloeing the Nationality Law.

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Review: A historical novel? 

Dr. Giora Eliraz, Associate Fellow at Truman Institute wrote an article about his recent book 'Yofi Hu Petza' (Beauty is a wound).

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Indonesian cleric’s call for compassion lost in controversy over Jerusalem visit
Dr. Giora Eliraz, Associate Fellow at Truman Institute wrote an article about the recent visit by Yahya Staquf, the secretary-general of the Nahdlatul Ulama to Israel. The article includes insights about the wider context of this visit.

Broadcast on: 19/06/2018
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/06/indonesian-muslim-cleric-in-jerusalem.html#ixzz5JWLVEaRL

Ukraine, the place Golda Meir fled from, now embrace her as a hero.

Prof. Miron Medzini, a fellow of the Truman Institute and former head of the bureau of Prime Minister Golda Meir (and of Levi Eshkol and Yitzhak Rabin in her first term) about Ukraine, the place Golda Meir fled from, now embrace her as a hero.

Broadcast on  05/05/18 at the 'The Jerusalem Post'. 

 

  A Potemkin embassy

Gideon Remez blog post A Potemkin embassy was featured as a "Top Op" on the home page of The Times of Israel.

Broadcast on  14/05/18 at the 'Times of Israel'. 

 

 

A Short Chat at a Party with Some Ambassadors from Former Soviet Republics and Suddenly this Historian Was an “Informed Source in Jerusalem”

 

Dr. Isabella Ginor, a Research Fellow at the Institute, presented the Following Trump's operation in Syria, this memoir of an analogous link 20 years ago between Middle East bombings and US investigations.

Broadcast on 16/04/18 at the American website History News Network '(HNN)'.

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"As civilian toll climbs in Gaza, focus on Hamas dampens compassion in Israel"

Dr. Amira Halperin, a researcher at the institute, gave an interview and dealt with, the Israeli society's response to recent events in the Gaza Strip.

 published 12/04/2018 at 'The Christian Science Monitor'.

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"Se debe pagar por la calidad de las noticias"

The head of the Truman Institute, Prof. Menachem Blundheim, was invited by the APEC University in the Dominican Republic for public lectures and meetings with ministers, public figures and newspaper editors. 

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"Israel’s Best Spy—or a Master Double Agent? New light from the Soviet angle on the mystery of Ashraf Marwan"

 Mr. Gideon Remez and Dr. Isabella Ginor, a research fellows at the Institiute, has published an article about the Soviet military intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli conflict of 1967–1973. They found a new evidence about the activity of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian official and son-in-law of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

 published 08/03/2018 at 'The Journal of the Middle East and Africa'.

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"If Indonesia's Democracy Is in Trouble, It's in Good Company"

Dr. Giora Eliraz, a research fellow at the institute, has published an article about the Indonesian political developments, the Indonesian democracy, in the year 2017. These changes looks like a familiar global trends, Indonesia joins a "good company".

Published on 08/03/2018 at 'The Diplomat Magazine'.

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"The Soviet‒Israeli war 1967‒1973: the USSR’s military intervention in the Egyptian‒Israeli conflict"

To Mr. Gideon Remez and Dr. Isabella Ginor, a research fellows at the Institiute, has published a highly positive book review at the Israel Affairs Journal about their book "The Soviet‒Israeli war 1967‒1973: the USSR’s military intervention in the Egyptian‒Israeli conflict". the review was conducted by the veteran reviewer David Rodman.

Published on 06/02/2018 at 'Israel Affairs Journal'.

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"Murderer of Israeli father of 6 was son of leading Hamas terrorist"

Dr. Dikla Cohen, a researcher at the Middle East unit of the institute, was interviewed to an article about the I.D.F operation in Jenin, and the killing of the terrorist Ahmed Jarrar in the operation. Additionally, she discusses about the activity of Hamas in the West Bank. 

Published on 18/01/2018 at 'World Israel News'.

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"IMF’S noose of austerity challenges arab world's only democracy"

Dr. Daniel Zisenwine, a researcher at the african unit of the institute, took part in an article about the status of Tunisia, in the context of the economic protests in the country and that in an opposition to the relative success of the country, after the Arab Spring.

Published on 16/01/2018 at 'The Jerusalem Post (Online Edition)

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"Right on the Button - Brass as Historical Evidence"

A post by Dr. Isabella Ginor and Mr. Gideon Remez, research fellows at Truman Institiute, in the History and Public Policy Program blog, writing about the contribution of new evidence to their research regarding the the USSR's military involvement with Israel in the 1960s and '70s.

Published on 5/10/2017, on 'History and Public Policy Program's blogSources and Methods'.

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"Did Moscow help planattack that sparked Yom Kippur War?"
An article by Benjamin Dukas about the latest book by Dr. Isabella Ginor and Mr. Gideon Remez, research fellows at the Truman Institute.

Published on 19/07/2017 at 'The Jerusalem Post (Online Edition)

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Did-Moscow-help-plan-attack-that-sparke...

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"How Fake News Became History: Sadat's 'Explosion on the Soviet Advisers,' July 18, 1972"


An article by Dr. Isabella Ginor and Mr. Gideon Remez, research fellows at the Truman Institute, which summaizes one episode from their new book 'The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973', discussing the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab nations. 

 

Published on 11/07/2017 at 'The Jerusalem Post (Online Edition)

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/How-fake-news-becomes-fake-history-499418

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"Revealed: How US Warned Israel off Action ahead of Six-Day War"


An article by Dr. Isabella Ginor and Mr. Gideon Remez, research fellows at the Truman Institute, discussing the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab nations. According to the new insights of their research, Ginor and Remez present in the article findings about the super-powers intervention and the impact of the American foreign policy in the course of the conflict.


1. Published on 30/06/2017 at 'The Jewish Chronicle'  (Online Edition)
    https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/revealed-how-us-warned-israel-off-acti...

2. Published on 2/06/2017 at 'The Jewish Chronicle' (Printed Edition)
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"What the Six-Day War Tells Us About the Cold War"

An article discussing the Six day war and the USSR's millitary intervention during that time, based on the findings from the latest book published by Dr. Isabella Ginor and Mr. Gideon Remez ; 'The Soviet-Israeli War 1967-1973'.

Published on 6/06/17 at the 'Smithsonian Museum Magazine'
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-six-day-war-tells-us-about-co...

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"Kissinger also Gave Away Israeli Secrets to the Russians"

An article by Dr. Isabella Ginor and Mr. Gideon Remez, research fellows at the Truman Institute, discussing one of the new findings in their research about the USSR's millitary intervention in the Middle East during the Cold War, following to the accusations that implies President Trump had provided Israeli Inteligence information to the Russians.

Published on 16/05/17 at the 'History News Network'
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165949

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"Can Trump close a deal for Israeli-Palestinian peace?"

An article by Dr. Ronni Shaked, the Middle East Research Unit Coordinator at the Truman Institute, discussing the President Trump visit in Israel and it's implications for the peace process negotiations.

Published on 18/05/17 at the 'Jewish Journal'
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"'Arab NATO' Must Not be Exploited to Isolate Turkey in the East Med"

A news article by Dr. Michael Tanchum, an Islamic expert, following the U.S President visit in the Middle East and the coalition of regional actors engaged to oppose the expansion of Iranian hegemony.

Published on 24/05/17 at the 'Turkish Policy Quarterly' 
http://turkishpolicy.com/blog/22/arab-nato-must-not-be-exploited-to-isol...

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"The Strength of Weak Ties: Israel, Iran, Syria Business Scholars Join Forces"

A news article describing the academic conference that took place in France with the patcipation of the Truman Institiute director, Prof. Menahem Blondheim and the Institute executive director, Ms. Naama Shpeter.

Published on 17/05/2017 at 'The Times of Israel'
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-strength-of-weak-ties-israel-iran-syria...

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"How the Six-Day War became the Soviet-Israeli War"

An article by Mr. Gideon Remez, one of our research fellows in the Middle East Unit at the Truman Institute, which describe the new findings of his latest research together with Dr. Isabella Ginor, and present interesting insights about the Six Day War.

1. Published on 1/05/2017 at 'ASMEA:
http://www.asmeascholars.org/resources/how-the-six-day-war-became-the-so...

2. Published on 9/04/2017 at 'History News Network:
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165616

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"Russia's Interverntion in Libya Would Realign The Eastern Mediterranean"

A news article by Dr. Michael Tanchum, an Islamic expert and a member of the Asia Research Unit at the Truman Institute.

Published on 16/03/2017 at 'The Jerusalem Post' Website:
http://www.jpost.com/OPINION/RUSSIAS-INTERVENTION-IN-LIBYA-WOULD-REALIGN...

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"Recycling the Blood Libel - Christians Introduced the Blood Libel to the Islamic World, Where it is Alive and Well"

A news article by Prof. Raphi Israeli, an expert of Islamic, Chinese and Middle Eastern history, and one of our senior researchers at the Truman Institute.

 Published on 2/03/2017 at 'Arutz Sheva' Website:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20230

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"China's One Belt, One Road Reshapes Mideast - Already underway, Beijing’s drive to integrate the Middle East in an economically

rational Eurasian order will have profound effects on Israel’s relations with its neighbors"
A news article by Dr. Michael Tanchum, an Islamic expert and a member of the Asia Research Unit at the Truman Institute.

Published on 24/01/2017 at 'The Jerusalem Post' Website:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Chinas-One-Belt-One-Road-reshapes-Mideast-4...