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Daniella Levy

Oct 8, 2023, 8:45 AM

My son was scared. 'You're safe,' I told him. 'We're here. No one is going to break into your room and try to murder you.' But I no longer can be sure

Apr 19, 2021, 2:33 PM

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The Year of the Introvert

I have a confession: I don't know if I'm ready to take my mask off yet. And it's not because I'm worried about the virus

Jun 17, 2020, 12:28 PM

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Good marketing can save lives. Get on it, Ministry of Health

Israel can still stop this second COVID wave, but those masks need better PR

Apr 20, 2020, 10:23 AM

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Dear schools: Let my fellow parents go

Ideally, every child would have a device loaded with educational apps; absent that, missing some months of school won't turn the entire generation into illiterate good-for-nothings

Jan 29, 2020, 8:00 AM

Not yet lost

I got home from work right in time for the big announcement. My family was already gathered around the screen, and Trump had just started talking. I hadn't planned to watch any of this speech -- hearing Trump talk...

Jan 17, 2020, 11:43 AM

You Drew Him from the Water

Detail: Discovery of Moses by Paul Delaroche [Public Domain]

I: Yocheved Hands tarred with pitch and clay you carried him to the river that should have been his grave. You waded into the water, a dark stain seeping up the hems of your robe, currents tugged your feet downriver but you planted your toes in the mud as you set...

Nov 26, 2019, 1:04 PM

How I became a misleading media sensation in Catalonia

It started innocently enough. On October 1st, 2017, the region of Catalonia held a controversial referendum to secede from Spain. I took an interest in the developments because of my friendship with a pro-independence Catalan (immortalized in my first book,...

Jun 18, 2019, 12:24 PM

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The enemy in our own backyard

This country protects child sex abusers and silences their victims -- and the vast majority of perpetrators are not Arabs, but Jews

May 6, 2019, 9:06 PM

Ad nauseam

It's like Groundhog Day. But with rockets. It begins on a backdrop of the usual low-level violence: arson balloons and kites, violent protests, the occasional stray bullet. But then something snaps. Sirens wail. Bullets ricochet. Parents huddle with their kids...

May 1, 2019, 9:03 AM

Here Live the Dead

The Kowel Great Synagogue. Courtesy: Yad Vashem Photo Collection 1663/3

What follows is a found poem compiled from messages that the Jewish residents of Kowel, Ukraine scrawled on the walls of the Great Synagogue where they were held for days, without food or water, in the autumn of 1942....

About Me

Daniella Levy is the author of Disengagement, By Light of Hidden Candles, and Letters to Josep. Her prose and poetry — in 3 languages — have been widely published, and she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for her short fiction. She is also a copy and content writer. Born in the USA, she immigrated to Israel as a child, and currently lives at the edge of the Judean Desert with her husband and four kids. You can learn more about Daniella and her work at Daniella-Levy.com.