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Rachel Tzvia Back

May 19, 2024, 11:47 AM

Noa Argamani, 26, seen in an undated Hamas propaganda film released on January 14, 2024. Argamani was taken captive during Hamas's October 7 massacres, and has been held in Gaza since. (Screenshot)

If we do not, Israel will stay bonded to violence, remaining a nation and a people that live by the sword, forever killing and being killed

Nov 7, 2023, 1:17 PM

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What grief can do: 30 days of mourning

Israelis light candles to remember the victims who were murdered by Hamas terrorists and Israelis abducted by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, a month after the October 7 massacre, November 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

It’s difficult to have compassion for the other side that has wreaked suffering on our own. But our humanity demands it

Mar 9, 2023, 3:08 PM

The Occupation and the Anti-Democratic Legislation in Israel

In November 2008, on what would turn out to be his last birthday, I brought my father a book gift: the first ever English language translation of Khirbet Khizeh. This canonic 1949 Hebrew novella by S. Yizhar tells the...

About Me

Rachel Tzvia Back is a poet, translator and professor of literature. She lives in the Galilee, where her great great great grandfather settled in the 1830s.