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Israel, Zionism & Statecraft

Profiles, institutions, and explainers tied to Israel, Zionism, diplomacy, conflict, and public memory.

56 entries

Golda Meir

Founder, Diplomat, Prime Minister, and the Burden of 1973

Michael Ben Zikri, the Israeli

Michael Ben Zikri died saving members of a Bedouin family, and the response turned one...

Kosha Dillz

Rapper and Jewish Identity Loud on Purpose

Shalva Band

How an Israeli Ensemble Turned Inclusion Into Pop Culture

Dead Sea Scrolls

Qumran, Hebrew Bible, and Ancient Judaism

Yemenite Jews in Israel

Ancient Traditions, Mass Migration, and a Living Musical Legacy

Inna Braverman

Inna Braverman's wave-energy work shows both the promise of Israeli clean-tech...

Amos Oz

The Novelist Who Made Israel's Arguments Readable

Bat-El Papura

The Performer Who Made Her Size Part of the Story

Chaim Topol

Israeli Actor Who Made Tevye Global

Dani Goldstein Waldman

Show Jumper and the Push to Put Israel on the Olympic Course

Dean Kremer

The Israeli-American Starter Who Made Jewish Baseball Feel Current Again

Deni Avdija

From Israeli Prospect to Portland's Breakout Star

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda became central to modern Jewish history because he treated Hebrew as...

Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh

Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh's career shows the possibilities and limits of Druze integration,...

Gal Gadot

Israeli Star, Wonder Woman, and a Global Emblem

Isaac Herzog

Israel's President in a Time of Fracture

Linoy Ashram

Gymnast and Breaking Israel's Olympic Ceiling

Natan Levy

Israeli MMA Fighter and Jewish Self-Defense Advocate

Nissim Black

More Than a 'Hasidic Rapper' Headline

Oren Liebermann

The Israeli-American Correspondent Who Made War Reporting Clearer

Ruth Calderon

Scholar Bringing Talmud Into Israeli Public Life

Sylvan Adams

Cycling, Philanthropy, and the Project of 'Normal Israel'

Theodor Herzl

Journalist, Zionism, and a Political Program

Yuval Noah Harari

Historian, Big History, and an Argument About AI

Freedom Farm Sanctuary

How Israeli Animal Rescue Became a Moral Education Project

Noah Helfstein

Bar Mitzvah Gifts and Israel's Maker Bus