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Author: Yechiel Leiter

Dr. Yechiel Leiter is Director of the International Department of the Shiloh Policy Forum and a former Chief of Staff to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his term as Finance Minister. He previously served as the Deputy Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Education.
The “Apartheid” Poll and the Disinformation Discourse

The “Apartheid” Poll and the Disinformation Discourse

July 21, 2021 | Dan Diker, Yechiel Leiter
Have Progressive American Jews adopted a "Soviet message" on Israel?
The Hebraic Roots of John Locke’s Doctrine of Charity

The Hebraic Roots of John Locke’s Doctrine of Charity

December 24, 2008 | Yechiel Leiter
In her path-breaking essays on political Hebraism, Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger identifies John Locke as belonging to the class of "moral economists" whose reading of the Hebrew Bible as a historical and political text caused him to argue for the hungry man's "right to surplusage"[1] This means that even though Locke championed the idea that man's labor entitles him to unlimited acquisition of material possessions, God remains the ultimate owner of all property and as such
Survey: Israeli Public Opposed Further Disengagement Even Before the War with Hizballah

Survey: Israeli Public Opposed Further Disengagement Even Before the War with Hizballah

July 23, 2006 | Yechiel Leiter
For the past fifteen years, Middle East peace-making has been dominated by two consecutive, illusory, political paradigms. The first paradigm, encapsulated by the Oslo Accords of 1993, belonged to a vision in which it is believed that a solution exists to every problem. The second paradigm – unilateral withdrawal – proposed that reality could be changed by withdrawing from it, by unilaterally disengaging from it.
U.S. Policy at a Crossroads: The Relevance of the Roadmap in the Aftermath of the Hamas Victory

U.S. Policy at a Crossroads: The Relevance of the Roadmap in the Aftermath of the Hamas Victory

April 2, 2006 | Yechiel Leiter