Caroline Glick

Early life and education Glick was born in 1969 in Houston, Texas, to a Jewish family. They moved to Chicago when she was a baby, and she grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood. She graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University, in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.

As a teenager traveling with her parents and siblings, Glick visited Israel for the first time at the onset of the First Lebanon War. Glick immigrated to Israel in 1991, and joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Glick is the sister of American diplomat Bonnie Glick. In 2007 she married Jerusalem attorney Ephraim Katzir, but they divorced.

Career Military Glick joined the Israel Defense Force in August 1991. She served in the IDF's Judge Advocate General division during the First Intifada in 1992, and, while there, edited and co-authored an IDF-published book, Israel, the Intifada, and the Rule of Law. Following the Oslo Accords, she worked as coordinator of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. She retired from the military with the rank of captain at the end of 1996.

Government After her demobilisation, Glick worked for about a year as the assistant to the director general of the Israel Antiquities Authority. She then served as assistant foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from 1997 to 1998. Glick returned to the US to earn a Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School in 2000.

In April 2023, and May June 2026, she was considered for appointment as Consul General of Israel in New York by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Journalism Following her return to Israel, she became the chief diplomatic correspondent for the Makor Rishon newspaper, for which she wrote a weekly column in Hebrew. She was also the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, and served as senior columnist and senior contributing editor until early 2019. In the summer of 2019, Glick joined Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, where she works as a senior columnist for its Hebrew and English editions. Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, National Review, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times, Commentary magazine, The Washington Times, Maariv, Moment, and other newspapers. Glick has also contributed to many online journals.

Glick is the author of The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, and Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad. She is the adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the far-right think tank Center for Security Policy, She has been identified as part of the counter-jihad movement, and has stated that the US and Israel are fighting a "counter-jihad" against "global jihad".

In its Israeli Independence Day supplement in 2003, Israeli newspaper Maariv named her the most prominent woman in Israel. She was the 2005 recipient of the Zionist Organization of America's Ben Hecht award for Outstanding Journalism. On May 31, 2009, she received the Guardian of Zion Award from the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

In July 2012, the David Horowitz Freedom Center announced the hiring of Glick as the Director of its Israel Security Project.

Politics In a Jerusalem Post opinion piece on the subject of the Iran nuclear agreement published on August 13, 2015, Glick characterized Jewish Americans as being at a crossroads, being threatened by President Barack Obama to risk both alienation from the Democratic Party and a weakening of the traditional Israeli-USA relationship if influential American Jewish leaders fail to support the nuclear deal.

In January 2019, she became a member of the Israeli New Right party. She was a candidate in the sixth position on the party's Knesset list for the April 2019 elections but the party didn't get enough votes to enter the Knesset.

Reception In Glick's 2014 book The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, she advocates for the annexation of the West Bank into a Jewish state without granting citizenship to much of the Palestinian population. She wrote an introductory article for the book in The Jerusalem Post. A review in the Jewish Political Studies Review called it a "solid defense of Zionism". One reviewer in the United Arab Emirates' The National was intrigued, but found the book problematic and flawed, found the author's historical account to be "mendacious", and saw the likely result of annexation as a collapse into civil war. David P. Goldman's review at the Asia Times was more favorable of Glick's one-state plan, but questioned whether it could be executed considering the demographic disaster predicted by Sergio Della Pergola. Goldman concludes, "If you read only one book about the Middle East this year, it should be Caroline Glick's".

We Con the World In June 2010, Glick co-produced and appeared in We Con the World, a satirical video by Latma TV about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla's attempt to breach the Israeli blockade of Gaza. The video clip quickly gained over 3,000,000 views from YouTube viewers, before being removed by the online hosting site due to alleged copyright infringement; Glick disputed the infringement charges, claiming a right of fair use. The video drew both criticism and praise. while Eileen Read, writing for The Huffington Post, described the mocking of the flotilla crew as "tasteless and blatantly racist".