Koby Benmeleh

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Jul 25, 2023, 12:57 AM

Is Israel tech’s doom-and-gloom crowd wrong?

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No, a mass talent exodus is not in the cards. As for the end of democracy as we know it? Also, no

Feb 13, 2014, 9:00 AM

If you never thought of murdering her, you’re not in love

I’m a selfish, solipsistic, detached asshole. You know. A man. Like most guys, I’m a prisoner to a male behavioral chain that dates back thousands of years, which began for the sake of human survival but now serves mainly to...

Jan 1, 2014, 10:45 PM

The appropriate response to the quenelle gesture

There is a difference between this: And this: This: And this: -- Within the global Jewish community, there is a tendency to overreact to overt (and covert) anti-Semitism. Part of it is residual trauma from centuries of pogroms, ghettos, expulsions, rape and of course...

Nov 22, 2013, 11:10 AM

Opportunity in the demise of American Jewry

Am I alone in feeling unsurprised by the recent findings of the Pew study on American Jewry? Little wonder, it turns out American Jews are increasingly intermarrying, becoming less religious, not raising their children Jewish or abandoning the faith...

Nov 13, 2013, 7:01 AM

Zionism too will be boring

I made aliyah because I was bored. More important, I suspect most of my fellow American Olim did so as well. Lest I be accused of being overly cynical, I would admit that I identify with Zionism’s core tenets and...

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About Me

Koby Benmeleh is the host of the Youristics podcast. He has free-range conversations with all sorts of people, including former prime minister Ehud Olmert, Netflix star Aleeza Ben Shalom, tech entrepreneur and investor Dov Moran, hi-tech CEOs, and sometimes simply with his friends. He writes about one thing that kept him thinking from each of those conversations on https://youristics.substack.com/.

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