Harris Zvi Green

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Mar 29, 2024, 5:17 AM

This week’s letter from Israel – March 29, 2024

March 29, 2024 My dearest friends, This week’s letter will be the last in my series of weekly letters from Israel. I’m not announcing my retirement or throwing in the towel. Hopefully, I’ll be back in a less frequent and different...

Mar 21, 2024, 11:14 PM

This week’s letter from Israel – March 22, 2024

March 22, 2024 My dearest friends, During the past 24 weeks I’ve written much about the hypocrisy and cynicism that plague our world. The hatred fuels the jealousy that fuels the denial that fuels the hatred. A vicious circle energized by...

Mar 14, 2024, 10:37 PM

This week’s letter from Israel – March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024 My dearest friends, The international community has clearly had enough of Israel. As I wrote in my last letter, the Free World and its freedoms are in decay. Its heads of state and humanitarian organizations, its religious leaders...

Mar 7, 2024, 6:39 PM

This week’s letter from Israel – March 8, 2024

March 8, 2024 My dearest friends, After 150 days of denial and deafening silence, it’s now official. Last Monday, the UN finally published its report confirming the rapes and horrendous sexual assaults that took place in the Hamas offensive of October...

Feb 29, 2024, 3:42 PM

This week’s letter from Israel – March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024 My dearest friends, We are now one hundred and forty-seven days into this bloody war. The past five months have been challenging. Having close family members risk their lives in defense of our country, listening to the hair-raising...

Feb 22, 2024, 11:29 PM

This week’s letter from Israel – February 23, 2024

My dearest friends, Martin Luther King said “the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”. The inflammatory antisemitic rhetoric in the context...

Feb 15, 2024, 7:32 PM

This week’s letter from Israel – February 16, 2024

February 16, 2024 My dearest friends, Lyndon B. Johnson said: Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. The speed with which our headlines changed during the past week, clearly demonstrated this. The best news by...

Feb 8, 2024, 9:58 PM

This week’s letter from Israel – February 9, 2024

My dearest friends, For me, this week started off on the wrong foot with the sudden passing of a dear friend of more than 60 years. Finding the words to comfort her family was so difficult. As one grows older,...

Feb 1, 2024, 11:47 PM

This week’s letter from Israel – February 2, 2024

February 2, 2024 My dearest friends, This week has been a particularly wet one. Israel is usually at its happiest when it rains. The level of Israel’s largest natural water resource, Lake Kinneret, remains the most accurate reflection of our national...

Jan 26, 2024, 2:12 AM

This week’s letter from Israel – January 26, 2024

January 26, 2024 My dearest friends, This past week has been a particularly difficult one. Twenty-four young soldiers were killed in the space of twenty-four hours. Twenty-four more people died without a single wrinkle on their faces. Twenty-four more families whose...

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Harris Zvi Green was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He made Aliyah 53 years ago. An accountant by profession, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for a number of Israel based hi-tech companies. He is married to Phyllis. They have 3 married children, 13 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Harris Zvi Green is a founder member of Truth be Told, an organization engaged in public diplomacy on behalf of Israel.

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