Ze'ev Ben-Yechiel, at The Blogs

Jul 12, 2016, 8:52 AM

What we really mean when we say ‘Black Lives Matter’

The burning issue consuming headlines in America these days seems to be about race and brutality and oppression, about black lives mattering as much as white ones. At the core it’s really about none of these things. What it...

Aug 22, 2014, 2:47 AM

Explaining the Hasbarah Gap

Hamas doesn't need to wage a media campaign, because the West is doing it for them. For decades now the air in Israel has been fairly ringing with lament for the poverty of our media campaign against the ideological assault on...

Aug 7, 2014, 2:06 AM

After the battle

Another battle has finished in our land, and still its echoes listen for the next call of war. Yet those who seek to destroy us in every age must always remember: From the dust of eternal memory our nation...

Jul 14, 2014, 1:41 PM

Dayeinu

I originally wrote this shortly after the news broke several weeks ago of the murder of the Arab teenager in Jerusalem. I think it is no less relevant today: "After several days' worth of soul-searching about the killing of Muhammad Abu-Khder,...

Jan 24, 2014, 2:27 PM

Lionizing a Lion: Ariel Sharon

On Israel's Memorial Day in 2005, I stood in my IDF uniform on Mt. Herzl watching a man who was about to expel 8,000 Jews from their homes speak in honor of Israel's fallen. The Gaza pullout was only...

About Me

Ze'ev was born in Moscow, grew up in Chicago, and studied and worked in Ghana, California and Spain before making aliyah in 2004. He currently works as a technical writer and spends his free time taking photographs and pretending to be a guitar hero.