Anshel Pfeffer has been a working journalist since 1997 and joined Ha’aretz in 2014 covering military, Jewish and international affairs. He is also the Israeli correspondent for The Economist and The Times. Pfeffer’s column ‘Jerusalem & Babylon’ in Ha’aretz covers issues relating to Israel and to Jewish identity. Pfeffer won an award for this column for reporting on the diaspora
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.