On the day after Election Day, Michael Makovsky, president and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, was hopeful President-elect Donald Trump would name Mike Pompeo as his Defense Secretary. A week later, Makovsky called Trump’s Defense Secretary…
Attacks against the U.S. by Iran-linked actors have skyrocketed in the last year with a 630% increase in malign acts since the Hamas terror attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7. 2023, according to a report by the Jewish Institute for National…
JINSA President & CEO Michael Makovsky spoke with LiveNOW from Fox about the nomination of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Could private security companies — known as PSCs — play a role in defeating Hamas and kick-starting the transition to a better “day after” in Gaza? Despite PSCs having a checkered history, reports suggest that several key stakeholders, including Israel and the United…
Elliott Abrams, the first Trump administration’s special representative for Iran, and Gabriel Noronha, who previously worked on the Iran file at the State Department, predicted on Friday that President-elect Donald Trump will usher in a more muscular policy toward Iran…
As Israel continues to degrade Iranian and Hezbollah capabilities in Lebanon, Syria and Iran itself, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faces growing pressure to manage Tehran’s presence within his borders. How will Assad respond to the changing balance of power in…
Throughout his campaign, former President Donald Trump shared few substantive clues indicating how he would handle some of the most intractable issues roiling Israel and the Middle East if he is elected to a second term. With Trump declaring victory…
Tens of millions of Americans voted Tuesday to determine whether the next US president will be Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. The result of the contest will have far-reaching implications for the future of the United States. But it is…
Etched on the gates to Dachau, Auschwitz, and other Nazi concentration camps built under the Third Reich are the German words Arbeit Macht Frei—Work Makes One Free. The concentration camps were initially advertised as helping derelict classes of society by…
It is fitting that Israeli soldiers finally killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the period between the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack, and the Hebrew calendar anniversary on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. The terrorist leader’s death marks a…