Meron Medzini is a senior professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches modern Japanese history and Israeli foreign policy. He also teaches Israeli foreign policy at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University. His book Golda – A Political Biography won the 2010 Prime Minister’s Prize.
Our 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.