Kim Milrell da Costa

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Mar 30, 2016, 1:21 PM

And my Hebrew name is…

London, March 30th 2016 After all these years: I am officially a Jew. Yesterday was a big day. It felt as if my whole life had been leading up to that moment. Well, at least the past eight years. You see, eight years ago,...

Dec 8, 2015, 11:43 AM

Hey friends, Long time no see. You see, I've been very busy. After much consideration I decided to leave the country I was born in. The country I grew up in. That I loved. The country that gave me a very good start in life. And...

Nov 28, 2014, 11:58 AM

We brush it all off and rise again

I'm in Israel again. I guess it's my 13th visit. Or perhaps 14th? However. It's great to be back and I've actually loved these incredibly rainy days in Tel Aviv. It's been a different kind of trip, for various reasons - not only...

Aug 26, 2014, 9:08 PM

With rockets flying over my head

Last night I came back from Israel. Stockholm greeted me with rain and 12 degrees. I immediately wanted to turn around and return to Israel. This - my 12th - trip was pretty different from the previous ones. For the first time ever,...

Jun 3, 2014, 10:33 PM

ZF UK Trip to Israel

I recently started working for the Zionist Federation in Sweden, and last week I had the privilege to join the ZF UK on their trip to Israel. This happened to be my tenth visit to the country since 2008, and...

Jan 13, 2014, 3:13 PM

Following my heart

The first couple of weeks of 2014 I spent thinking about these past years that changed my life. That is, when Israel and Judaism came into my life. From nowhere and literally from every imaginable angle. (I also begun converting...

Oct 9, 2013, 7:56 PM

Judaism Makes Me Want To Become a Better Person

I more or less 'wrote' this blog post in my head last night when I couldn't sleep. It happens to me regularly, that I lie there hour after hour. My mind is all over the place and I just can't...

Aug 15, 2013, 4:14 PM

The Israeli Heat

I guess this is my first TOI blog post written in Israel. Yes, I am here again, for the fourth time in the past eleven months. I am loving every second, although I admit that the August heat IS a little...

Jun 5, 2013, 2:12 PM

Swedish sunshine and Israeli flags

Sunday June 2nd we held our second pro-Israel rally in Stockholm. Last time, in December 2012, we gathered outside the hooligan tabloid Aftonbladet. (The crappy "newspaper" with this headline after the latest Israeli elections: "Israel votes for more violence." Just...

May 27, 2013, 9:32 PM

This Sunday: Pro-Israel Rally in Stockholm

Since my last post I have been to Israel and back. Again. It was wonderful as always and yes, I started planning my comeback before I even arrived at Ben Gurion Airport to go back to Sweden. While in Israel I...

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About Me

Kim Milrell da Costa is a Pro-Israel blogger, writer, and activist from Stockholm, Sweden. However he currently resides in a small town in southern Finland. He writes about 'Everything Israel' on his website Israelism.se, and has worked for the World Zionist Organization's Swedish subdivision: The Zionist Federation of Sweden. He is also a news junkie and he cares too much about what's going on in the world. Constantly worried.