The Nabataean story is built into our modern landscape. Their terraces, dams, and way-stations are preserved today in archaeological parks like Avdat National Park, Shivta, Mamshit, and Haluza, where Israel has chosen not to pave over the past but to curate it. Walking those sites, visitors see how Nabataean engineering underlies later Jewish, Byzantine, and Arab rural life, turning the Negev into a living classroom about continuity rather than replacement.

Amid the noise of geopolitics, military strategy, and shifting alliances, the spiritual dimension of Israel’s regional role is often overlooked. And yet, I believe it is the deepest and most enduring. As a rabbi, a teacher, and the director of the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center and Blickle Institute, I have seen with my own eyes that when faith enters the conversation, not as a problem to be managed but as a foundation to be embraced, a door opens. Not just to peace, but to purp

The Herut movement was founded in 1948 and succeeded the Irgun organization, the military arm of the Revisionist movement (created by Jabotinsky) during the Yishuv period. It opposed Mapai in its vision for the Land of Israel.

Yitzhak Rabin was Israel's former IDF Chief of Staff, the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

David Ben-Gurion (born David Grun) was an Israeli politician and the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel.