This week on AJC Passport, Micah Goodman, director of Beit Midrash Yisraeli-Ein Prat and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, tackles the controversial issue regarding the West Bank in his book, Catch-67.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the dissolution of the current Knesset and will hold early elections on April 9th. Join us as Lahav Harkov, Senior Contributing Editor of The Jerusalem Post, dives into recent developments, analyzes the political turmoil, and suggests what we can expect in the short months leading up to the elections for the 21st Knesset.
The BDS movement has climbed its way up the Hill in the form of a bill targeting proponents of the anti-Israel boycott campaign. On this week’s episode, AJC General Counsel Marc Stern sheds light on the bill and other legislative measures against boycott efforts; and AJC Transatlantic Institute Director Daniel Schwammenthal discusses the state of the relationship between the EU and Israel and the steps needed to mend it.
On this week's episode, we were joined by two freshman members of Congress, Representative Donna Shalala (D-FL) and Representative Van Taylor (R-TX). We talked with them about the key issues they plan to tackle while in Congress, including strengthening U.S.-Israel relations and building bipartisanship.