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The Real Housing Crisis: How Israel's Housing Industry Hurts the Working Class
How is it possible that Israel can shoot an intercontinental ballistic missile in outer space, blow the pants off of 3,000 terrorists with their beepers, but for some reason can't figure out how to solve housing? People are shocked to hear there are 85,000 units on the housing market (3 years of supply) because the media, the agents and the streets all say there is a shortage and you'd better grab a house while you still can. This analysis looks at systemic rot.
J.P. Katz
Jun 46 min read


Iran's 47 Year War on American Soil
What happens when terrorism and organized crime stop operating as separate worlds? According to growing intelligence assessments, the line between ideological extremism and global criminal enterprise is rapidly disappearing — creating a new form of asymmetric warfare that is harder to detect, easier to scale, and already operating inside America’s own hemisphere.
J.P. Katz
May 214 min read


Israel Housing Collapse?
Israel's real unemployment rate just soared to 16.6% in March 2026 combined with housing surplus of 85,000 units that are not moving may spell trouble in the near term and long term for middle and lower income earners.
J.P. Katz
May 75 min read


Housing Disruption: How Israel’s Skyline Became a Map of Inequality
In cities across Israel, the skyline tells a story most people feel but rarely articulate. Look closely and you’ll see it: two housing markets stacked on top of each other. Down below are aging, modest apartment blocks—homes built in an era when housing was primarily about shelter. Rising above them are sleek luxury towers, glass and steel monuments to a different reality—one where housing has become a financial asset first, and a place to live second. Over the past two decad
J.P. Katz
Apr 304 min read


Arab Demographic Time Bomb? Or Just Bad Math?
The Ettinger Report analysis presents a 69% Jewish majority across Israel and the territories.
J.P. Katz
Apr 282 min read


Palestinian Army or Police force?
Is the Palestinian Authority building and training a military combat force for the next Oct. 7 style attack?
J.P. Katz
Mar 255 min read


Ayatollah's 47 Year War on America
Although many want to blame Israel for the U.S. war with Iran, the facts tell a very different story. This report by former Ambassador Yoram Ettinger draws from 2026 U.S. Intelligence Community Report, West Point Center for Combatting Terrorism, The Department of Homeland Security’s 2025 Threat Assessment.
J.P. Katz
Mar 232 min read


Will Israel Run Out of Interceptors?
Risky Business: The Costs Driving Israel's Defense Systems. The financials behind how to defend Israeli citizens from Iranian ballistic missile attacks.
thetribejournal
Mar 224 min read


Lessons from Lebanon: Could Iran Also Conquer Your City?
Hezbollah’s Long March: How Iran Built a Power Inside Lebanon—and Why the World Should Pay Attention
For decades, the story of Hezbollah has often been framed narrowly as a regional security issue between Israel and Lebanon. But according to Israeli security expert Lt. Col. (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, the rise of Hezbollah represents something far more significant: a blueprint for how a hostile ideology, backed by a foreign state, can gradually infiltrate and reshape an entire so
J.P. Katz
Mar 155 min read


They Sold Everything and Moved to the Hills
"Risking it All" (Part 1) chronicles activist Michael Weichbrod, founder of Homebound, and his families journey from Lakewood, NJ to Ramat Bet Shemesh Israel, to the hills of Judea in an inspiring story about love for Torah, the Land of Israel and being the change.
J.P. Katz
Mar 125 min read


Eitam Farm: Participating in Drawing the Map of Israel
What shapes the map of Israel - politicians or the people on the ground? At Eitam Farm we see the impact of a shepherd and his farm can do to hold onto historic and strategically significant land in Israel.
J.P. Katz
Feb 226 min read


Israel Rewrites the Rules in Judea and Samaria: Enforcement, Land Rights, and a Shift in Policy
Unprecedented legislative and policy shifts in Judea and Samaria. The developments include aggressive enforcement against illegal construction and the nullification of a decades-old "Jordanian Law 40" that barred Jews from purchasing land in the territory.
J.P. Katz
Feb 185 min read


Did the Israel Housing Market Collapse?
Builders have stopped receiving loans from banks, forcing them to turn to the stock market to raise capital through unsecured debt and selling shares. He detailed how there are 85,000 unsold apartments, with 50,000 in the central region, and highlighted that there are 3.05 million condos available compared to 2.9 million households, creating a housing surplus. He expects 25-30% market correction before government intervention.
J.P. Katz
Feb 134 min read


Haredim on the Hill
We interview Ephraim, a resident in Jerusalem is responding to the Jerusalem's dense urban planning, high rise towers and shrinking apartments all accompanied by rising prices and cost of living. He is building his home in the hills of Judea Samaria in an effort to give his children a different expression of Torah life.
J.P. Katz
Feb 83 min read


The State That Declare War But Cannot Build a Village: How Bureaucracy Paralyzed Israel’s Ability to Found New Communities
Israel’s failure to establish new communities—even within its 1948 borders—is not ideological but institutional. Decades of government decisions have gone unimplemented because real authority has shifted from elected officials to unelected planning and legal bureaucracies that block execution. The result is a state capable of major military action, yet unable to build a single new village, leaving strategic regions weakened by decades of paralysis.
J.P. Katz
Feb 55 min read


Israel to Confiscate Equipment Used for Illegal Construction in Area C
A Quiet Policy Revolution in Area C A major but largely underreported policy shift has just taken place in Judea and Samaria, one that could fundamentally alter the reality on the ground in Area C. According to Naomi Kahn, Director of the International Division at Regavim, Israel has finally implemented a long-sought enforcement tool: granting the Civil Administration full authority to impound and confiscate heavy machinery used in illegal construction by the Palestinian Auth
J.P. Katz
Feb 52 min read


The People Held the Line
In an era of echo chambers and social media information bubbles, I wrote and produced this song and video as a message in a bottle to my 60+ year old self so I would remember the raw emotion and frustration in this place and time. There are obviously volumes of books one could write, but in 8 minutes this song and video emotionally express how I have personally understood and experienced the past two biblically epic years of collective survival here in the Holy Land.
J.P. Katz
Nov 16, 20254 min read


The "Settlers" of Judea, Samaria & Jordan Valley | The Pioneers (Ep. 1)
Moshe farms land in one of the most highly disputed pieces of real estate in the world, in the middle of a desert. This is his story.
J.P. Katz
Jun 16, 20242 min read


New York City Police Arrest Attack Victim
Just hours after NYC Mayor Eric Adams proclaimed "We Are Not Alright" expressing his support for Israel, NYPD arrest Jewish attack victim.
J.P. Katz
Mar 31, 20241 min read


Does the U.S. profit from an Israel at war?
What is Uncle Sam's return on investment for amounts spent supporting the Israel's military? Perhaps U.S. "aid" is the wrong word.
J.P. Katz
Mar 17, 20241 min read
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