Peter Lerner

The author, a retired IDF lieutenant colonel, is a communications and strategy consultant, Israel advocate and a former IDF spokesperson.

An injured man is taken off an ambulance at a hospital, following an incident near Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement in Hebron, in Jerusalem

Complacency meets the ghosts of history - analysis

 The scene where a rocket fired from Gaza into Southern Israel, hit and caused damaged in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. October 7, 2023.

Israel is haunted by the ghosts of the Yom Kippur war in this attack - comment

 A MARCH in Tel Aviv against the government’s proposed judicial overhaul, on Saturday night. ‘I don’t demonstrate against; I demonstrate for,’ says the writer.

Israel must become a 'win-win' society - opinion


Unions are the answer to COVID unemployment and work disputes - opinion

Worker power is essential to building our economy from the COVID-19 crisis better than before and developing the economy from the bottom up and the middle out. 

 HISTADRUT CHAIRMAN Arnon Bar David in a meeting with Inbal Hermoni, chairman of the Union of Social Workers at Histadrut headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Israel Elections: Labor Zionism is the way forward - opinion

The social safety net established by Labor was the safety net that helped Israel overcome much of the challenges of the last year.

LABOR PARTY leader Merav Michaeli at a party meeting with members in Tel Aviv on March 10.

What we have here is a failure to communicate

Israel, despite all of its battle experience, from wars to the Mount Carmel Forest Fire, was clearly unprepared for coronavirus.

A paramedic adjusts his protective suit as he prepares outside a special polling station set up by Israel's election committee so Israelis under home-quarantine, such as those who have recently travelled back to Israel from coronavirus hot spots can vote in Israel's national election, in Ashkelon, I

Election season brings out the anti-Israel trolls

Let the election season begin.

Caption: BDS supporters hold a protest against Israel in South Africa's Gauteng province recently

The need for a civilian maestro to command the media and diplomatic efforts

Hezbollah seeks to shatter our nerves and break the national morale by challenging the political and defense establishments to protect our people.

IDF discovers the third tunnel since the announcement of Operation Northern Shield entering Israel from Lebanon.

The question of proportionality

Over the recent days during the flareup with Hamas in Gaza, several foreign correspondents have raised questions of proportionality of the IDF conduct.

Smoke rises after an Israeli aircraft bombed a multi-story building in Gaza City August 9, 2018

The Gaza border – Israel’s White Cliffs of Dover

The underlying message of the Gaza protests, missed by most of the media coverage so far, is the wish to trample the border and extinguish hope for a two-state solution.

A Palestinian wears an 'Anonymous' mask and holds a Palestinian flag during protests in Gaza

Israel’s bridge to (the) far Right

What the government needs to do is request clarification of antisemitic statements, work with the Jewish communities design a working plan for their countries to combat antisemitism.

Head of Austrian Freedom Party (FPO) Heinz-Christian Strache addresses a news conference in Vienna, Austria, April 25, 2017.

First Person: An IDF delegation confronts the past

The army’s Witnesses in Uniform program enables soldiers to travel to Poland for a journey through history.

Warsaw Ghetto monument Poland 311 (R)