Eve Young

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Jul 12, 2020, 2:46 PM

Stop saying religious when you mean Orthodox

According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of the word religious is, “relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity.” According to the average Israeli, the definition of the word religious is “Orthodox.” The conflation of religiousness...

Jun 24, 2020, 3:37 PM

On politics and prayer

We always pray for a better world - and politics should be the way we make it happen

Jun 16, 2020, 12:56 PM

By keeping women from combat roles, Israel is crippling its leadership

Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion seen cheering while carrying a fellow soldier on a stretcher at the end of their 16 Kilometer journey to complete their training course, in Tel Nitzan, southern Israel, near the border with Egypt, September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

A male-centric military pipeline to leadership has dire consequences, and Exhibit A is the absurd makeup of the Corona crisis task force

Jun 8, 2020, 10:34 PM

Justice justice… for Iyad Halak too

When we did military exercises in the IDF, the “enemy forces” were always Arabs. Especially in basic training, this could be very theatrical. The commanders playing the enemy would wear Keffiyehs and blast the latest Palestinian hits on loudspeakers....

May 25, 2020, 12:03 PM

The Women We Forgot

She is in her late 20s and a single mom to an autistic child. She’s on a Zoom call with me and a few other women, and the call is being hijacked by her kid. He is running around...

May 20, 2020, 2:20 PM

Drinking, burial at sea, and other things to which Israel’s Rabbinate drives us

One of my clearest childhood memories is of seeing my dad cry on Yom Hazikaron. We were at an outdoor memorial ceremony hosted by my shul. The ceremony was ending, we were singing Hatikvah, and when I looked up...

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About Me

Eve Young made Aliyah with her family at age 6 and Yerida with her family at age 15. She came back to Israel by herself after completing her BSc in Mathematics and served as a combat soldier and commander in the IDF. Since her release, she has worked in the nonprofit world trying to make life better for women in Israel.

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