Natan Sharansky is a former Israeli politician and former head of the Jewish Agency.
Gil Troy is the author of The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s and his latest book, The Zionist Ideas, which updates Arthur Hertzberg’s classic work. Professor Gil Troy is Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University.
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.