On April 30, three weeks after the national election, Israel officially swore in its 21st Knesset, the Jewish state’s parliament.

On March 26, 1979, less than six years after waging a bloody war against Israel, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt met with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to sign a peace treaty brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. It was the first peace agreement Israel had signed with any Arab country and has survived several major geopolitical crises. Building on the relationship built by the treaty, Egypt and Israel maintain close military and intelligence cooperation in the Sinai and have recently concluded a major natural gas deal.

On May 3, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) sniper in the Gaza Strip shot and wounded two Israeli officers during a Hamas-organized border riot. The attack set off a round of violence in which PIJ and Hamas fired some 700 rockets at Israel within a single 48-hour period, killing four Israelis and injuring many others.

Nader Uskowi starts his superb new study of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with a startling personal anecdote. In November 1978, he met with the then-exiled Ayatollah Khomeini outside of Paris just two months before the cleric returned to Iran in triumph following the overthrow of the Shah.

Forty years ago this month, the secular, modernizing, pro-Western Iranian monarchy under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was toppled by the radical, totalitarian, anti-Western Islamic Republic of Iran under Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

On Feb. 14, Congress strongly supported Israeli security and strengthened the U.S.-Israel relationship in provisions included in the new spending bill.

In recent weeks, there has been much misinformation about the Combating BDS Act (CBA), an important bipartisan bill which would simply clarify that U.S. states have the authority to act against commerce- or investment-related boycotts targeting Israel without fear that they are preempting federal authority.

On Jan. 1, former AIPAC President Larry Weinberg passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 92. In his extraordinary life, Larry served his country, strengthened the U.S.-Israel relationship and helped shape AIPAC in its formative years.

On April 9, Israelis will go to the polls to vote for the 21st Knesset—Israel’s parliament—70 years this month after the first Knesset election was held.

On Jan. 22, the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) carried out a successful test of the Arrow-3 missile defense system in central Israel. The highly advanced system, designed to intercept ballistic missiles outside of the earth’s atmosphere, is the outermost layer of Israel’s multilayered missile defense shield.