When it comes to defending Israel, Huckabee does not hesitate. There is an intensity to the way he makes Israel’s case that can be difficult to find even among official Israeli spokespeople. He reaches for arguments that are not part of the standard political script: the growth of Israel’s Christian population from 34,000 in 1948 to nearly 200,000 today; Arab doctors heading departments at Hadassah Medical Center and supervising Jewish staff; and the fact that his own wife wa

More than 20,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel during the Jewish year 5786 (September 23, 2025 to September 3, 2026), coming from over 100 different countries worldwide, according to a new data report released by the Aliyah and Integration Ministry and the Jewish Agency. The breakdown of the Aliyah figures for the past year shows that Russia topped the charts with 5,685 olim (immigrants to Israel) arriving in Israel, followed by 4,364 from France, 3,333 from the United Sta

The unprecedented shutdown of five of Israel’s six desalination plants has exposed what water-policy and national-security experts say is a growing strategic vulnerability: the country’s near-total dependence on large coastal facilities for drinking water. Large-scale desalination facilities already supply around 80 percent of Israel’s municipal drinking water, a share set to rise sharply under government plans to expand production in the coming decades. “Desalination is supp

Alongside geopolitical instability, the increased adoption of artificial intelligence has reshaped the global high-tech industry, changing how companies hire and invest. Israel’s technology sector has not been immune to these changes, although their impact has not necessarily been negative. The strengthening of the shekel against the US dollar has created another challenge for the country’s export-dependent high-tech industry. According to data released by the Israel Innovati

The catastrophe of World War II not only accelerated the Jews’ return but also Israel’s resurrection from the ashes of history. The State’s founding literally occurred in the fire of history and could never have been anticipated, humanly speaking. In light of this, something else is also significant. In 2022, Israeli historian Dan Diner published Another War. In the book [unavailable in English], Diner shows the developments of World War II from a Jewish perspective, as well

One of the conundrums I often confront is how to comprehend Israel’s consistent ranking in the top 10 countries in the World Happiness Report, published by the Wellbeing Research Center at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent editorial board. It measures people’s self-assessed life evaluations, averaged over three years. The report uses factors including GDP per capita, social support, health

Israeli exports reached an all-time high of $164 billion in 2025, setting a new national record despite war, global economic uncertainty and what the Israel Export Institute described as unprecedented hostility toward the country. One of the report’s most significant findings was that services exports exceeded $90 billion for the first time. Growth was led by the high-tech, software, research and development sectors, reinforcing Israel’s position as one of the world’s leading

Foreign ministers debated various tactics to respond to the settlements at their monthly council meeting in Brussels, against the backdrop of rising violence by settlers and efforts by the Israeli government to expand settlements in Palestinian territories. No decisions have yet been made, and the path forward is uncertain. Some EU member nations favor aggressive action against the settlements, while others are unlikely to back any measures that take aim at Israel. A number a

Picture this: A gas station customer pulls out a wad of bills to pay for a fill-up. The cashier refuses the money, explaining that the station’s bank has stopped accepting notes and coins as deposits because it already is drowning in cash. In most places, cash is king. But in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, having too much is gumming up the machinery of daily life. The Palestinian banking system has more Israeli shekels than it can manage. As a result, paper money has gotten

A recent poll found that roughly half of American Jews under 35 support resolving the conflict by creating a single binational state spanning Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, with a government elected by both Jews and Palestinians. The Jewish Voter Resource Center poll, released May 21, found that among non-Orthodox Jews under 35, support was slightly higher. The majority of Palestinians, for their part, see the idea as a surrender of their dreams of statehood and are deeply s

Israel was born through fire in Egypt, gathered through fire in history, was resurrected as a nation through fire in 1948, and will be saved through fire in the future. A biblical survey through Scripture and redemptive history. In 2004, when Ariel Sharon (Israel’s Prime Minister at the time) addressed the Knesset about the Gaza “disengagement plan,” he said that Israel had been born in blood. He was referring to the events surrounding the nation’s founding on May 14, 1948. A

In a report, the commission—which last year concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza—found that Israeli military operations have continued causing “unprecedented death, injury and trauma” to Palestinian children. The Israeli government has repeatedly denied committing genocide, and officials swiftly decried [the] UN findings. The Foreign Ministry called it “a propaganda piece as outrageous as its previous ones,” while Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nati

Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez thanked Israel for sending “a highly specialized and professional group” after the twin earthquakes that recently shook the country. Israel jumped into action immediately, with the country’s Foreign Ministry, Health Ministry, KKL-JNF, SID Israel, and others, including IsraAID, sending delegations days after the quakes. The specialized team that the country’s acting president was referring to was specifically the 30-member IDF dele

As Israel’s gas exports to Egypt and Jordan have stopped and restarted three times since October 2023, Azerbaijan’s state oil company, known as SOCAR, has moved into every layer of Israel’s energy business at once. Those positions came together publicly at the 31st Baku Energy Forum and the first Azerbaijan-US Economic Dialogue. They provide backup supply when Israeli gas goes offline, as it did for 32 days during the Hormuz war. Israeli energy security analyst Elai Rettig of

The partnership between India and Israel is fortified by shared problems, mentalities, and opportunities, and the friendship between the two nations is only set to grow in the future, a group of Indian political figures, entrepreneurs, activists, influencers, journalists, and commentators told The Jerusalem Post. “Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, what they cemented during this visit was that we are civilizational partners,” said Vijeth Umbalagodu T

Amid attempts by some in Israeli society to prevent women from serving in combat roles in the IDF, the air force is quietly establishing a special commando unit, similar to the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, composed entirely of female soldiers. An IDF official said that its creation represents a broader shift in the mindset of the IDF, and the air force in particular, toward integrating women into significant and complex combat roles. The air force noted that after the w

New research from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) uses C14 dating of preserved organic samples taken from one of two ancient fortresses in the Arava in southern Israel. The findings suggest they were built by the biblical kingdom of Israel almost 2,800 years ago, and not by the Assyrian empire decades later. With no systematic data or information to rely upon, the consensus among scholars was that the fortress, built over a perfect square measuring 100 meters (328 feet

Israeli defense electronics company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has unveiled Storm Shield, a compact electronic warfare system designed to protect unmanned aerial vehicles operating in highly contested airspace and anti-access/area denial environments. With electronic warfare being widespread, and so many unmanned aerial vehicles, especially tiny ones, being activated, it is difficult to find a solution in the market. Therefore, Rafael created Storm Shield, which provides

For the first time anywhere in the world, desalinated seawater is being pumped into a freshwater lake, as Israel begins transferring Mediterranean water into the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Kinneret, in an unprecedented project described by officials as a safeguard for the country’s water security. Construction began in 2018, and the project was inaugurated in 2022 at a cost of roughly NIS 900 million ($269 million). It has now reached full-scale operation following the

Israel was the most attacked country in the world by geopolitically motivated hackers and malicious actors in 2025, as the country’s multifront wars with the Hamas terror group and Iran and its proxies spurred a spike in cyberattacks, according to the annual global cyber threat analysis report published by Israeli cybersecurity firm Radware. With 12.2 percent of all global geopolitically motivated cyberattacks directed at the country over the past year, Israel is a