Daniel Pomerantz

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Sep 21, 2013, 8:18 PM

Playboy Israel: 6 months later.

It’s been just a year and a half since my Aliya, and just about six months since I wrote to the Times of Israel about my work on launching Playboy Israel Magazine. I thought it might be a good...

Mar 4, 2013, 9:32 PM

Why I started Playboy Israel

A complex and beautiful magazine for a complex and beautiful country

May 22, 2012, 11:35 AM

I type, therefore I am (here)

I noticed something strange: some people in Israel don’t have Hebrew language keyboards. I tried to figure out why. It can’t be the expense: it's free and takes two minutes to install, and a full set of keyboard stickers...

May 10, 2012, 3:56 PM

Zionism, Judaism, and who we are today

Zionism began with Theodore Herzl who had an idea: that someday there might be a Jewish state. In the late 1800’s Herzl’s idea seemed at best unusual, at worst downright crazy, and Herzl himself did not live to see...

Apr 25, 2012, 12:23 AM

Becoming Israeli, on Yom HaZikaron

Today I stood at the Yom HaZikaron ceremony in Rabin Square. This is Israel’s Memorial Day but it is not a day of beer and b-b-q as in the U.S., rather it is a day to remember those who...

Apr 20, 2012, 8:44 AM

Make Israeli friends in 10 easy steps

Some new olim are happy to spend a lifetime in their expat bubbles, but if you're up to the adventure of fraternizing with the natives, here's the way to go about it

Apr 13, 2012, 1:45 PM

Top 10 things they don’t tell you in ulpan

As an 'Anglo' in Israel, you can live in a perfect little English-speaking bubble for a lifetime, which is fine -- unless you’re up for the adventure of really learning Hebrew

Mar 29, 2012, 6:33 AM

Pressuring Israel: how to be “inside the tent”

I’ll admit, I’m not entirely sure what “inside the tent” means. It’s kind of like being “on the wagon” or “off the wagon.” I can never remember which one refers to being drunk. Yet without mentioning anyone in particular,...

Mar 21, 2012, 12:06 PM

How I got here: A story of advocacy, identity and aliya

I was working as a lawyer in Chicago, sitting at a meeting with my musician-client. This means that we were having drinks after her show, in a posh bar at 1:00 AM, yet unlike my client, I’d been up...

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About Me

Daniel Pomerantz is the Senior Editor for the media watchdog HonestReporting and teaches Legal & Financial Aspects for Entrepreneurs at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya. He is also a frequent guest on i24 News as a media/political analyst. Daniel previously served as CEO of Playboy Israel as well as a business attorney in the US.