In recent years, U.S. public opinion has become modestly more positive toward both sides in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, according to a new Pew Research Center survey…

There’s a major new initiative brewing in Israel, which some hope might help the country back away from looming disaster.

For those lucky enough to be traveling to Israel this year, an upcoming visit can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engage and encourage, not only those protecting Israel’s population centers, but those defending Israel’s democratic institutions as well.

Over the past several months, Heart of a Nation has held a series of roundtable conversations with diverse thought leaders selected from a variety of constituencies on their respective red lines regarding conversation and dialogue. We wanted to know how these individuals determined with whom they would and wouldn’t engage.

For this year’s Arab Youth Survey, the 15th to date, researchers conducted 3,600 interviews with individuals ages 18-24 between March 27 and April 12 in 18 countries and 53 cities across the Middle East and North Africa, to gauge the overall attitude of the 'Arab world’s largest demographic.

The fight over judicial reform in Israel could, potentially, bring about progress in a positive direction — if the battle over the role and powers of Israel’s branches of government were to finally bring about a long-delayed pillar of democracy: a written constitution…

Only about 1 in 10 U.S. adults give high ratings to the way democracy is working in the United States or how well it represents the interests of most Americans... Majorities of adults say U.S. laws and policies do a poor job of representing what most Americans want on issues ranging from the economy and government spending to gun policy, immigration and abortion.

A threat to democracy anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere…

Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress, has called for a “’Marshall Plan’ for the Middle East”, expressing hope that a global economic development plan directed at young Palestinians, young Egyptians and young Jordanians – that provides international investments for new businesses where few exist today – could ultimately lead to a peaceful solution in the region.

UnXeptable is the first Israeli-American movement to emerge since the Israeli-American Council, and it has developed on a wholly organic, ground-up basis…

The reason the Israeli protests have been so effective is that even in a society rent by so many divisions, Israelis have gone into the streets because they believe deeply that their very way of life—the character of their society, and the image they have of Israel as an open, tolerant, and democratic polity with all its weaknesses, including the Israeli occupation—is fundamentally threatened.

’It’s all about how do we engage in conversations about controversial issues, how do we facilitate those dialogues, how do we train educators to be the best educators possible to deal with these complex and controversial issues.’

Four score minus five years ago, this country was established “for the benefit of all its inhabitants,” according to its Declaration of Independence.

Far from home, and longing for a semblance of security amidst the winds change buffeting her society, Linoy Yechieli’s evocative new music video Parachute speaks to all who seek safety and tranquility in these most uncertain times.

D.C., that brings together American, Israeli and Palestinian changemakers who want to improve their own societies, has held a series of roundtable conversations with diverse thought leaders selected from a variety of constituencies on their respective red lines regarding conversation and dialogue. We wanted to know how these individuals determined with whom they would and wouldn’t engage.

The goal of MEPPA is to bring these societies to a tipping point, where they can see one another through a prism resulting from like-minded initiatives and attitudes.

For the first time, maybe in my lifetime, you’ve got young people from all three societies who simultaneously recognize that their politics is stuck and they desperately want to push forward into a better place.

Two weeks of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian activists confirmed Heart of a Nation’s assumption that younger and older changemakers are ready to work together to fix what’s broken in their respective political cultures.

In a recent visit to the Middle East, Heart of a Nation found young Israelis and Palestinians deeply committed to improving their political cultures of their respective societies.

Heart of a Nation spent two weeks engaging veteran and emerging changemakers in more than a dozen centers of Israeli and Palestinian angst and aspiration.