Zahava Englard Shapiro, Author at Mida

Israel’s Elections: Tempestuous and Turbulent

Zahava Englard Shapiro | 10/04/201901/05/2019

The people have indeed spoken and much was said quite ardently. The majority of Israelis trust Benyamin Netanyahu to be the only candidate worthy of the position of prime minister. Bennett and Shaked are in a difficult position: they didn't succeed to unite secular and religious Zionists with their new party.

Israel Under Attack: The Only Reaction That Matters

Zahava Englard Shapiro | 25/03/201922/04/2019

We, the people of Israel, must demand security. We must demand deterrence. Our security will come about by winning, by determining what the end-game must be and by unapologetically seeing it through.

We Always Walk Alone

Zahava Englard Shapiro | 23/11/201814/03/2019

Driven by a vision of becoming a nation like all others, Zionists believed that global Jew-hatred would end once we, the Jewish people, returned to our ancestral lands and reestablished our state. They were wrong.

JFNA, Time for you to Listen

Zahava Englard Shapiro | 18/10/201829/10/2018

Talking is good. The sticky part however, is that it’s not so much “we need to talk” on the part of the Federation as it is what they feel they have a right to insist upon vis-a-vis Israeli cultural, religious and other policies.

In the Absence of Leadership

Zahava Englard Shapiro | 08/10/201819/10/2018

We wait for our leadership to stand as proud Jews against our enemies. With strength of conviction and a desire to be victorious.

Our Angels Wear Green

Zahava Englard Shapiro | 18/04/201804/05/2018

There is nowhere I’d rather be. I love my land. I love my people. I treasure each day I wake up to the Israeli sun in a land that completes us as a distinct Jewish nation.

We Hold YOU in Contempt

Zahava Englard Shapiro | 11/04/201801/05/2018

Your days of deciding the fate of the Jewish nation are over. How frustrating it must be for all of you, after all your zealous attempts to annihilate us, not to see your efforts come to fruition.

The Polish Holocaust Law: Why We Should Care

Zahava Englard Shapiro | 13/02/201828/02/2018

Poland is not alone in its efforts to separate itself from the Nazi atrocities. Other countries in Europe are working very hard to whitewash their long history of Jew-hatred.