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Ehud Neor

Former Jack of all trades, now writing.

May 19, 2026, 4:18 AM

One’s Place in the World (A Primer for Shavuot)

Approaching Passover, the main theme is to rid your household of leavened bread—meaning the type that we normally eat—in all of its varieties, from loaves to crumbs and any mixtures in between. It is a huge operation because throughout...

Oct 1, 2025, 8:11 PM

Repentance: A Poem for Yom Kippur

The transgression departs like an iceberg off the stern its mark, dark-stained scratched across the wronged across the World across our foreheads. With this coal miner’s lamp we grovel, grimy, swaying a tainted light through the tunnels of our time, our misery. Fixed by that bright spot sounding our...

Sep 7, 2025, 12:58 AM

It Could Have Been Worse

You do not need to be a security expert to know that things could have been much worse on Oct.7. It’s an open secret in Israel. But it is not a secret that anyone wants to talk about. This...

Jul 25, 2025, 1:29 PM

Gush Katif: A Good Place

I was livid. Rumors of corruption at the flower shipping center near Netivot had been swirling, but I didn’t believe them until my best flowers, at their peak, were disqualified as unfit for export. A trusted friend urged me...

Jul 1, 2025, 4:33 PM

Jaws at Fifty or Spielberg’s Revenge

I’ve been saying it. I’ve been saying it for fifty damn years. Ain’t I been saying it Miguel? Nobody listened then, maybe someone will listen now. What’s so infuriating to me is that the truth has been obvious from the very...

Jun 16, 2025, 8:34 AM

I Saw the Rocket’s Red Glare

With our new upgraded warning system, we receive an initial warning when ballistic launches are detected from Iran. It’s a fifteen-minute lob from Iran to Israel, so ten minutes later when trajectories are determined, localized warnings are sounded for...

Apr 25, 2025, 5:38 PM

A Sad Ceremony

Yesterday was Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel. For the first time since I can remember, I did not attend a local ceremony in person, rather I stayed at home and watched the official ceremony streaming on the internet. It...

Apr 22, 2025, 5:45 PM

The Jew’s Day After

From what we have seen until now, there should be no surprise if the next significant step in Israel’s redemption—the final defeat of all external enemies—is not accompanied by a shofar-announced irrefutable appearance of Divine intervention. It hasn’t happened...

Mar 18, 2025, 4:52 PM

The Two Kingdoms and The Parable of The Wall

In Israel, no matter is small. Fresh from electoral victory, right-wing parties swiftly targeted the Supreme Court, branding it too powerful. They argued that the Court, having declared itself the ultimate arbiter of parliamentary law, had usurped the elected...

Mar 9, 2025, 3:59 PM

The Scrolls of the Jews

The Jewish people are bound up in their ancient scrolls, so much so that they become all but indistinguishable. As the ancient Dead Sea scrolls from Qumran were brought with great care to museums, where they were carefully un-scrolled...

About Me

Ehud Neor was raised on Martha’s Vineyard. He studied at Wabash College and the University of Haifa. Ehud is married to Dvora and they raised their family in Gush Katif, until they were expelled. They now live in Nitzan.