What an Israeli Writer Learned From Reaching Out to Palestinians

Yossi Klein Halevi in conversation with Rabbi Elaine Zecher about his book, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.

March 10, 2022

March 10, 2022

Yossi Klein Halevi is a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University and Jennifer Raskas, he co-directs the Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative. Yossi is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor and co-host with Donniel Hartman and Elana Stein Hain of the Institute’s award-winning podcast, For Heaven’s Sake. He is also the author of Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli

Elaine S. Zecher

Shared Society, Books by Hartman Scholars, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, Video

Yossi Klein Halevi joined Rabbi Elaine Zecher of Temple Israel of Boston for a discussion of his book, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. In this series of letters, he explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to participate in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he is committed to see succeed as a morally responsible, democratic state in the Middle East.