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Nilaya Magidish

Aug 27, 2025, 3:22 PM

Advancing a US-Israel Partnership in Central Asia

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to strengthen bilateral economic ties. December 2016. (Photo: Official website of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan)

Israel’s diplomatic and at times discreet ties with several Central Asian nations- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan- hold renewed strategic importance in its efforts to contain Iran in the aftermath of its recent 12-Day War. Following the Soviet...

Jan 25, 2021, 5:45 PM

Remembering the Nameless: Two Artists Commemorate Berlin’s Lost Jews

Linienstrasse 137: Slide projection of police raid on former Jewish residents, 1920, Berlin, 1992, color photograph and on-location installation by Shimon Attie (Courtesy of Shimon Attie)

In 1991, Jewish-American visual artist Shimon Attie traveled to Berlin to create art about Jewish identity in the city’s Scheunenviertel, or former Jewish quarter. As he walked Berlin’s streets Attie asked himself, “Where are all the missing people? What...

About Me

Nilaya Magidish is a member of Israel’s Forum Dvorah: Women in Foreign Policy and National Security. She is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and the recipient of two U.S. Department of State awards to study critical languages overseas, including one in Tajikistan. Based in Israel she specializes in regional interreligious affairs.