Nahum Barnea serves as the Chief Columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s biggest daily. Barnea won the State of Israel Prize for communication in 2007. He has been a Trustee at The International Crisis Group since July 2010.
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.