Featured Reader Responses
02/01/2021 This is my humble contribution to the discussion about the book Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. The First Letter: The Wall Between Us I was blessed to have been invited to read…
Gamal Abdelazim – Egyptian journalist, writes for Alarabi I must admit that when I received a message on behalf of the American-Israeli writer, Yossi Klein Halevi, it came as a surprise…
January 4th, 2020 Dear Mr. Yossi Klein Halevi, I send you my warmest greetings. At the very outset of my letter, I would like to express my deep appreciation and gratefulness for…
January 5th, 2021 A response from Ghada from Saudi Arabia I would like to thank Mr. Yossi for extending his invitation to Arabs to read his book and present their thoughts about it in…
My neighbour, First, I would like to begin by addressing you as an intellectual Jew, noting that it is fortunate that this characterizes you better than a host of other potential descriptors,…
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“A clarion call, not to arms but to empathy…a profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker…[an] urgent and heartfelt message.”
- Wall Street Journal
“One of the best one-volume introductions to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.”
- The Atlantic
“Refreshingly honest...In explaining Israel to the Palestinians, [Halevi] appeals to a certain ideal, a higher ambition, a sense of wonder and beauty.”
- The Forward

Yossi Klein Halevi
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the author of Like Dreamers, which won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award.
He is a former contributing editor of the New Republic and writes for the op-ed pages of leading American newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.