Tag Archives: Yoram Ettinger

“The emergence of Israel as a small, but significant, player on the world stage is one of the remarkable developments at the end of the post-Cold War era”

ISRAEL HAYOM Growth shows global confidence by Yoram Ettinger August 26, 2016 …The $3.3 billion raised by Israeli startups since January, 2016 may break the $4.4 billion annual record set during 2015. Intel invested in three Israeli startups, expanding its … Continue reading

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“Usually, as countries become wealthier and as women become more integrated in the workforce, fertility rates plummet…yet in Israel, even as per capita income soared above the European Union’s average over the past decade, families began having more children”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Jewish Baby Boom Alters Israeli-Palestinian Dynamic by Yaroslav Trofimov July 14, 2016 Israel’s peace camp and its international backers have long used one crude but powerful argument: Arabs make more babies than Jews and unless a separate … Continue reading

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“Israel is a special strategic partner to America, not a member of the “foreign aid” club of supplicants”

JEWISH POLICY CENTER U.S. Investment in – not Foreign Aid to – Israel by Yoram Ettinger Spring 2016 …From a one-way street relationship, the U.S.-Israel connection has evolved into an exceptionally productive two- way mutually beneficial alliance. The U.S. is … Continue reading

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“The persecution of Jews in Arab lands had not ceased since the rise of Muhammad who, in 626 C.E., enslaved, expelled or beheaded the three leading Jewish tribes of the Arabian Peninsula”

ISRAEL HAYOM Forgotten Jewish refugees by Yoram Ettinger April 8, 2016 …The CIA assessed that “a second Jewish Holocaust in less than 10 years” would be the response to the establishment of a Jewish state. In fact, 820,000 Jews were expelled … Continue reading

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Israel is sole advanced economy averaging three children per mother

ALGEMEINER Israeli Demography Expert Refutes Claim That Baby Boom Is Bad for Jewish State’s Economy by Ruthie Blum September 27, 2015 Israel’s population explosion is cause for economic optimism, not woe, says the author of several studies on the demographic … Continue reading

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Yes, there is an Alternative

ISRAEL HAYOM by Ret Ambassador Yoram Ettinger July 19, 2015 ….A reasonable alternative to the July 2015 agreement with Iran would reject the Carter state of mind, resurrecting U.S. confidence in its moral and strategic exceptionalism and restore U.S. power-projection … Continue reading

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Inflated Palestinian Population Figures Lie Behind Talk of ‘Demographic Time Bomb,’ Israeli Expert Says

ALGEMEINER by Ben Cohen December 30, 2014 The latest demographic survey of the Palestinian population by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics overestimates the number of Palestinian residents between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan by around 1.2 million, … Continue reading

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Chanukah Guide for the Perplexed, 2014

ETTINGER REPORT by Yoram Ettinger December 15, 2014 Chanukah commemorates a national Jewish liberation holiday and a series of battles, which took place in the land of Israel, mostly in the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria, the home court … Continue reading

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Islamic Terrorists Are No Lone Wolves

ISRAEL HAYOM by Yoram Ettinger November 14, 2014 ……The perpetrators of Arab/Muslim terrorism, in general, and Palestinian terrorism, in particular, are not “Lone Wolves.” They are the by-products of a centuries’ old intolerant ideology, supported by educational and religious infrastructures … Continue reading

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Yom Kippur Guide for the Perplexed, 2014

YORAM ETTINGER BLOG October 2, 2014 a.     Yom Kippur commemorates God’s forgiveness for the sin of the Golden Calf and God’s covenant with the Jewish people. b.     Yom Kippur is a day of forgiveness only for sins committed against God. … Continue reading

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