Seven of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring sieges, spies, cultural revolutions, family papers, useful enemies, new fields of inquiry, and more.
December 18, 2019 | Elliott Abrams,Diana Muir Appelbaum,Matti Friedman,Haviv Rettig Gur, Daniel Johnson,Moshe Koppel,Daniel Polisar
About the author: Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the incoming chairman of the Tikvah Fund.
Diana Muir Appelbaum, a writer and historian, is at work on a book about nationhood and democracy. Her museum reviews have appeared in the
Claremont Review, the
New Rambler, and elsewhere.
Matti Friedman is the author of a memoir about the Israeli war in Lebanon,
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War (2016). His latest book is
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel (2019).
Haviv Rettig Gur is the senior analyst for the
Times of Israel.
Daniel Johnson, the founding editor (2008-2018) of the British magazine
Standpoint, is now the founding editor of
TheArticle and a regular contributor to cultural and political publications in the UK and the U.S.
Moshe Koppel is a member of the department of computer science at Bar-Ilan University and chairman of the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem. His book,
Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures, has just been released by Maggid Books.
Daniel Polisar is the executive vice-president and a member of the faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem.
