One of Vanity Fair's best books of 2022
“A fascinating and intense account of Leonard Cohen’s time in Israel during the Yom Kippur War of 1973.”
—Suzanne Vega
Out April 5, 2022
Updates & News
The Wisdom of Hamas (The Free Press, Dec. 28, 2023)
They understand the war they’re fighting. Many in the West still don’t. JERUSALEM — In the days after Hamas terrorists…
Let Objects Speak: A web series from Beit Avi Chai
“Let Objects Speak,” produced by Beit Avi Chai in Jerusalem, takes viewers on a tour of some of the Jewish…
Back to 1948 (The Free Press, Oct. 19, 2023)
My smartphone says it’s October 2023, but in Israel it feels like 1948. That was the year this country was…
When Did Humans Start Settling Down? (Smithsonian Magazine, July/August 2023)
Matti Friedman Twelve thousand years ago, long before the beginning of recorded history, a group of perhaps 200 people lived…
Speech at Jerusalem protest, 9.7.23
(This is the English translation of a speech I delivered in Hebrew at a protest against the Israeli government’s policies…
Leonard Cohen TV Drama, ‘Who by Fire,’ Set With ‘Shtisel’ Writer Yehonatan Indursky (Variety, Nov. 28, 2022)
By K.J. Yossman for Variety Leonard Cohen’s 1973 visit to the frontlines of the Yom Kippur war is set to…
