Maya Haber is an American-Israeli activist living in Pittsburgh, PA. She earned a PhD in history at the University of California Los Angeles. She writes and lectures about American Jewish impact in Israel, Israeli internal politics and social justice in Israel. Maya teaches at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
In recent months, anti-corruption demonstrations against Netanyahu have spread from suburban Petah-Tikvah to urban Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. For two weeks in a row, tens of thousands left their comfy homes to attend the Game of Thrones inspired “March of Shame.” And the crowds were not the usual left wingers of anti-Occupation rallies, but average…
In the early 1990s it felt as if the Israeli Left had won. In 1992, the first election I ever voted in, Meretz won 12 Knesset seats. A year later Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo agreements. At that time, my IDF unit was working on a just and fair distribution of water resources…
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