Gavin Gross

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Feb 10, 2015, 2:05 PM

Roger Cohen doesn’t get it

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote last week that "Israel Needs a Grown-Up," meaning an alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister in the Israeli elections on March 17. He praised Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni's "Zionist vision" of...

Aug 26, 2014, 6:18 PM

Israeli citizens are suffering too

It's Day 50 of Operation Protective Edge and while the blaring Western media headlines may have subsided, the fighting continues, with a heavy barrage of rockets and mortars from Gaza hitting Israel in the past week, and over 4,450...

Aug 8, 2014, 12:10 AM

Get ready for ‘Operation Here We Go Again’ in 2016?

I made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) on December 29, 2008, just two days after Israel's 'Operation Cast Lead' against Hamas in Gaza had begun and with rockets falling on southern Israel. There were nearly fifty new immigrants traveling together...

Nov 21, 2012, 2:50 PM

Pas de deux of hatred in London

Anti-Israel activists in London engaged in twin protests both outside and inside of Sadler's Wells theatre on Monday night as Israel's Batsheva Ensemble arrived for the first of three performances, but their disruptions could not ruin a triumphant evening...

Nov 19, 2012, 12:33 PM

A surreal Friday night in Jerusalem

It's not often that I get to pray next to a Nobel Prize Laureate, but as we filed into the packed Yael street shul in the capital's Baka neighborhood at 4:30pm on Friday as Shabbat came in, I noticed...

Nov 6, 2012, 4:11 PM

No matter who becomes President, American isolationism will be a strong force

“Who can bring the jobs back?” I overheard a man say on the New York City subway as he and two friends held an animated debate about the US Presidential election. In a time of tremendous unease about America's...

Sep 10, 2012, 12:51 PM

In a remote Tibetan Buddhist former kingdom, Shabbat hospitality awaits

In a remote Tibetan Buddhist former kingdom, backpackers warm their hearts with Shabbat meals, yiddishkeit and Indian whiskey

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About Me

Gavin Gross, a New York City native, was a commodities trader in New York and London before serving as Director of Public Affairs at the British Zionist Federation (ZF). He has appeared on BBC TV and radio, Al Jazeera English, and Iran's Press TV discussing Israel issues. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS, University of London, and now lives in Israel.