Dan Savery Raz, at The Blogs

Dan Savery Raz

Feb 20, 2026, 1:51 AM

Alon Lee-Green, co-director and one of the founders of Standing Together, spoke in London last night. Last night in London, a unique meeting occurred. A large room full of people gathered to discuss the Israel-Palestinian conflict. That's not unique, you...

Jan 5, 2026, 5:30 AM

Globalize the peace, not the intifada

Changing the hate speech and slogans in 2026. Following the horrendous shooting attack on Bondi Beach, some have been calling for a ban on some of the campaign slogans that created a climate of hatred against Jews worldwide. While slogans...

Oct 20, 2025, 9:37 AM

Fight or Flight: Poetry after October 7

There are many unanswered questions about October 7: the events preceding it, the slow response on the day, and the war that followed, and a full investigation is needed. But I’ll leave those questions for now. Following the events...

Aug 1, 2025, 11:10 AM

Leaders for the day after

Photo courtesy of Eric Prouzet on Unsplash

Job alert: Hopeful, strong visionaries needed for a tiny country in the Middle East Job description: We're a tiny country in the Middle East looking for a leader or group of leaders to heal the nation after its worst government and...

Apr 30, 2025, 6:53 AM

The normalization of chaos

Photo courtesy of Johannes Schenk from Unsplash

Normalization. Now, there’s an Orwellian term. We’ve marginalized normalization. Before October 2023, there was talk of Saudi Arabia’s potential to normalize its ties with Israel. Today, it looks like this normalization is a distant desert dream as Crown Prince...

Sep 17, 2024, 12:39 AM

The art of travel writing in Israel (Part II)

Looking back over 15 years of writing and promoting Israel as a travel destination, continuing from part one. Welcome to the BBC In 2012 I was overjoyed to become a father for the first time, but due to the high cost...

Sep 9, 2024, 6:46 AM

The art of travel writing in Israel (Part I)

"There are more bars than synagogues, God is a DJ and everyone’s body is a temple." Photo by Jan Cassalette on Unsplash

A look back on over 15 years of writing and promoting Israel as a travel destination. While waiting for my family’s luggage at Thessaloniki airport last month, I picked up a magazine called Incredible Greece. Printed on glossy paper, it...

Jun 27, 2024, 12:47 PM

The time has come for diplomacy, not more death

An open letter to PM Netanyahu (and Times of Israel readers) Dear Bibi Netanyahu, Ron Dermer, Yoav Gallant, and other decision-makers, I hope you understand the gravity of this precarious moment – don’t take Israel to an all-out war with Hezbollah. That’s...

Jun 6, 2024, 2:11 PM

Jonny Greenwood should be supported not silenced

The BDS movement is unfairly targeting Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead about playing in Tel Aviv. It’s not everyday that one of the greatest guitarists of his generation plays in Tel Aviv in the middle of madness with Israeli and Arabic...

May 5, 2024, 1:17 AM

To remember and never to forget

Tirza on the far left with her six siblings and mother. Photo courtesy of Tirza.

Tirza Halivni’s tale and why this year's Yom HaShoah is more important than ever. This year Yom HaShoah falls on the evening of May 5. That’s a significant date for me – I made Aliyah to Israel on May 5...

About Me

Dan Savery Raz is a Lonely Planet author, and has written for BBC.com, Time Out & various websites. Born in England, he lives in Tel Aviv with his wife & children.