When two million Israelites suddenly appear at the border of Edom, a king must decide: trust or fear? The weekly Torah portion, Chukkat, illustrates an age-old pattern that Israel still faces today.

Something darker is at work here than just a concern over rising fuel prices.

Southern Israel’s largest hospital is transforming a devastating attack into an ambitious expansion aimed at serving more than a million Negev residents.

The 14-point document published by the Trump administration provides for an end to hostilities, far-reaching sanctions relief for Iran, multi-billion-dollar economic assistance, as well as provisions regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

If no ally will write the red lines of the Jewish state into a deal, then it has no choice but to become the guarantor of its own security, and, by extension, of the regional order that its security requires.

If you read the headlines these days, you might almost believe the Middle East is on the verge of a historic breakthrough.

Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that the memorandum of understanding is a “disaster” that “stabs Israel in the back.”

The U.S. president told reporters that he intends to read his agreement with the Iranian regime “word by word” publicly to set the record straight.

“Monitoring this agreement cannot be passive,” Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.