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New Phone Number

By Israel Policy Forum
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 11:07am

Please note that IPF's phone number has changed. We can now be reached at 212-354-1812. 

We will not stand for this

By Israel Policy Forum
Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 7:46pm

Israel Policy Forum is shocked and appalled by the column published in the Atlanta Jewish Times by its owner and publisher Andrew Adler calling for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States policy includes its helping the Jewish state obl

Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer on 'Reviving the Peace Process' (TRANSCRIPT)

By Israel Policy Forum
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 10:13am
In an ideal world, if we were writing this up as a scenario we would say let’s put this all on hold, and everyone stays away happily and nothing changes for the worse, and we pick it up perhaps when everyone is stronger. But status quos are not status quos and people know that. They either get better – or more commonly – they actually get worse because they are left neglected. I fear that this status quo, over the next 10 or 11 months if there isn’t some very significant policy activity, will deteriorate into violence.

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Economy

Israel's Cabinet Passes the Budget, No One Is Happy

By The Pulse
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 7:59am

In Israel, passing the annual state budget is an exercise that can destabilize governments. And yet, Israel's cabinet approved the 2009-2010 state budget with a strong majority in favor: twenty-six ministers voted for the budget, while all four Shas ministers voted against it.

Israeli TV Report: Poverty in Gaza Forces Children to Work in Trash Heaps

By Sadie Goldman
Senior Policy Associate, Israel Policy Forum
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 2:08pm

Yair Lapid's Friday news magazine program reported on the situation in Gaza's refugee camps and found, "Six and seven-year olds looking for discarded food and plastic bottles." A days work--12 hours--might bring them 5 Shekels (about a dollar), but they have no choice but to work to support their families.

The Palestine Investment Conference

By Sadie Goldman, May 27, 2008

Perhaps the greatest achievement of last week's Palestine Investment Conference was not the announcement that $1.4 billion would be invested in the West Bank and Gaza or that 35,000 new jobs would be created, but the fact that the conference was held in the first place.

Israel's Dependence on Gaza

By Sadie Goldman, April 8, 2008

When Shalom Simhon heard that government officials were discussing cutting Gaza off from receiving Israeli goods, he could not have been too surprised. After all, as Israel's Minister of Agriculture, he has faced one obstacle after another as he has tried to build Israel's farming sector.

Focus on Disengagement and Palestinian Democracy

By David Dreilinger, March 23, 2005

 

Disengagement process:

Security control in Jericho and Tulkarm was transferred to the Palestinian Authority this week.  Next in line are Kalkilya, Bethlehem and Ramallah. 

The IDF will soon begin moving out of non-essential facilities in Gaza such as garages, munitions depots and other installations.

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