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Hagai El-Ad is director of B’Tselem. El-Ad has a wealth of experience in human rights advocacy, including a six-year term as director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel,as well as serving as the first director of the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance. He holds an MSc in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1997 to 2000.
Iran is slowly surrounding Israel with a ‘ring of fire’: On the West’s ongoing appeasement of Tehran and refusal to see plain the IRGC’s transnational Jihad
Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and Children Casualty Figures
From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn’t Learn? | An Interview with Mitchell Cohen
Those Who Tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors | Episode 2: ‘Arafat could never end the conflict… his identity was shaped by struggle’ – A conversation with Dennis Ross
Iran’s ‘successful’ attack vs Israel – a blessing very effectively disguisedOur Voice of the Fortnight is from the Times of Israel's 'Wartime Diaries' podcast. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Shai Davidai – an Assistant Professor at Columbia University – became an unlikely public defender of Israel. And truthfully, even he was surprised by this turn of events: As a committed left-wing Israeli, he had spent years criticizing the government, and often took to the streets to demonstrate against its policies. But the atmosphere he witnessed on college campuses (and specifically on his own campus at Columbia), compelled him to speak up and speak out.
