I write The Middle Ground — clear-eyed analysis of Israeli politics, U.S.–Israel relations, and the fractures inside the Jewish world. No slogans. Just the harder, truer read.
My family was expelled from Iraq in 1951. What that history does to the settler-colonial argument about Israel. The incitement that targeted Rabin in the 1990s is back, now with the machinery of the state behind it. Eli Kowaz is a Middle East analyst and writer focused on Israeli politics, U.S.–Israel relations, and the fractures inside the Jewish world. He is the author of The Middle Ground, a newsletter read by policymakers, journalists, and the engaged public. His byline has appeared in Haaretz, JTA, The Jerusalem Post, and The Times of Israel, and he is a frequent interview guest and cited voice across print, radio, podcasts, and television. He currently serves as Senior Policy Director at the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF) in Tel Aviv. Previously, he was Communications Director at the Israel Policy Forum. The goal is not moderation for its own sake, but the harder discipline of holding more than one true thing at once.
Middle East Analyst & Writer
Eli Kowaz
Israel, the Jewish world, and the middle ground between.
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Selected Writing
My Grandfather, the Zionist Spy
The Netanyahu–Ben Gvir Playbook, Thirty Years Later
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Holding more than one thing true at once.
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