My Israel is a work of love. Here, seventy prominent Israelis put down into moving words what they see in their own special corners of the Land of Israel. A set of personal narratives with seventy essays, each by an extraordinary, accomplished individual from all walks of life – an entrepreneur, a singer, an athlete, and many other innovative and productive citizens of this land we love. We have a shared past We face shared challenges We must build a shared future with our love for Israel 'On the eastern border of Jerusalem’s Old City, between the Jewish and the Muslim Quarters, sits a walled compound of approximately thirty-five acres, over which nations have fought and dreamt for hundreds of generations.… Just one glance toward the gilded dome of the Al Aqsa Mosque brings up the entirety of the history bubbling under the surface, and I am swept back in time…' Lior Suchard , master mentalist and entrepreneur List of contributors Alshekh, Maysa Halabi Altschuler, Adi Arad, Yael Argov, Gideon Arieli, Inbal Ariely, Prof. Dan Avni, Aki Bar-Or, Rabbi Mordechai Beck, Dr. Avital Beer, Eli Ben-Ami, Lili Berry, Orna Besnainou, Pierre Bloch, Dr. Aliza Broza, David Cohen, Itai Cohen, Sharonna KarniEizenkot, Gadi Engel, Jossef Avi Yair “Jucha” Friedman, Moshe Fuld, Hillel Gadiesh, Orit Gershony, Noam Gity, Inbar Harush Gold-Zamir, Dr. Yael Greenfield, Murray Harari, Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dani Harel-Cohen, Sharon Hasson, Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Hasson Klein, Achiya Klinger, Tchia Efron Kolber, Jonathan Kolitz, Dr. Tamara Kreiss, Inbal (Biran) Kremer, Avichai (Avi) Lau, Rabbi Binyamin Levenberg, Prof. Shulamit Lichtenstein, Chen Low, Joey Machluf, Prof. Marcelle Nahmias-Verbin, Ayelet Natour-Hafi, Shirin Nevzlin, Irina Ohana, Tal Peres, Chemi Peretz, Miriam Pincas, Itay Polachek, Ruth Rabinovitch, Rabbi Shmuel Radinsky, Kira Rado, Hana Rahav-Meir, Sivan Rivelis, Shira Samuels, Kalman Satchi-Fainaro, Prof. Ronit Schoenberg, Ido, and Phyllis Gotlib Shaffir, Stav Sharon, Gilad Shilon, Ziv Shwed, Gil Stibbe, Eytan Strauss, Ofra Suchard, Lior Tashome-Katz, Yuvi Teeni, Adi Soffer Telhami, Imad Yaari, Sivan Zafrir, Nadav Zaher, Julia Ze’evi, Arik
Ilan Greenfield is one of Israel’s leading publishers. Since 1982, he has been the owner and CEO of Gefen Publishing House, a privately owned publishing house founded by his parents, Hana Greenfield, z”l, and Murray Greenfield. Ilan served as treasurer of Telem, the Movement for Zionist Fulfilment. He is a licensed tour guide in Israel and is also a founder of the Ein Prat Leadership Academy, on whose board of directors he has served since its founding in 2001. Ilan serves as a Vice President at NewsRael, a unique twenty-four seven Israel news app founded in 2020. Greenfield was chosen by the Algemeiner as one of the Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2022. A marathon runner, Ilan is married to Caryn. They have four children (Yael, Binyamin, Liat, and Maayan) and so far six grandsons (Noam, Shachar, Gilad, Yiftach, Avner, and Hadar) and one granddaughter (Roni) and live in Kfar Adumim, Israel.