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Ehud Neor

Former Jack of all trades, now writing.

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...

Jan 21, 2025, 12:22 AM

The Inside-Out Sabra

The tough Israeli. Like the Sabra fruit, prickly, rough and masculine on the outside, tender and sweet on the inside. That actually was not a far-fetched description at one time. That time seems like ancient history today. For whatever...

Jan 16, 2025, 6:08 PM

Eat a falafel and stand with the Jews

Photo courtesy Zehava Kor. Used with permission of the photographer.

Every year as January 18th approaches I revisit the story of David “Dugo” Leitner, of blessed memory, whose personal observance on that date became an Israeli-wide tradition, now in its tenth year. This year the 18th is on Shabbat,...

Jan 9, 2025, 2:13 PM

The Wildfires and The Antisemitism

My heart goes out to those affected by the fires in Los Angeles. Especially to those who persisted in staying in their homes even after they received evacuation notices. They are not totally irresponsible; the children have been moved...

Dec 23, 2024, 4:45 PM

It’s Always A Sophie’s Choice for Israel

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The worst is this: retired security “experts” demanding to be heard over the other panel members on the endless Israeli talk shows on TV, berating and insulting anyone who suggests that if we are going to agree to a...

Dec 12, 2024, 3:26 PM

The Only Voice That Matters

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

One of my favorite writers on Substack, Ed Rettig over at Anan Sahade has just written a surprising piece where he makes the argument that the outcome of the legal cases against Netanyahu, whatever it turns out to be,...

Nov 3, 2024, 5:03 AM

The Making of a Sandak

I had been a Sandak before, at a Sephardic circumcision ceremony, where the attendees line up before the Sandak to receive his blessing. At that ceremony there was really not a lot of pressure because being Ashkenazi, not much...

Oct 15, 2024, 6:50 PM

Waiting for Go…err, for an official inquiry

I was just listening to an interview with the mayor of Shlomi, a town in the far north of Israel. He was waxing indignant over the discovery of huge attack tunnels discovered by the IDF in south Lebanon. "They told...

Oct 11, 2024, 4:57 PM

One. One and One. One and Two…

Here we are, on the eve of the Day of Atonement, and who has atoned for Oct 7? Don't tell me of the chiefs who announced their retirements in recognition of their failures, because those chiefs, who were responsible...

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.