Sivan Ya’ari is the Founder and CEO of Innovation: Africa. Sivan has been recognised as one of the ’40 Under 40 Most Promising Israelis’ by Globes magazine and one of the ’50 Most Influential Women in Israel’ by Forbes Israel, and one of the ‘Top 10 Most Influential Israelis in International Business, Science and Culture 2017’ by NoCamels.
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.