The book
From the handshake on the White House lawn to the sirens of October 7 and the wars that followed, Between Hope & Fear tells the story of modern Israel's most consequential era — three decades in which the country buried a prime minister, fought two intifadas and a dozen wars, absorbed a million immigrants, and somehow built one of the most dynamic economies on earth while rockets fell on its cities.
The author
Full bio
Marc Schulman is a historian, the founder of HistoryCentral.com, and the author of Tel Aviv Diary, where he has chronicled Israeli politics and life for more than twenty years — a decade of it as a Newsweek columnist, and now on Substack. He has been creating history education software since 1989, hosts the Tel Aviv Diary podcast, and publishes through Israel Academic Press. He has lived in Tel Aviv since 2011, where much of this book was written between sirens.
Short bio, for show notes
Marc Schulman is a historian and the author of Tel Aviv Diary, which he has written for more than twenty years — a decade of it as a Newsweek columnist. He is the founder of HistoryCentral.com, hosts the Tel Aviv Diary podcast, and has lived in Tel Aviv since 2011.
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Suggested interview topics
- 1993–2023The road from Oslo to October 7.
- 1995–2020Why Israel's economy boomed while peace collapsed.
- 2023–Reporting the war from a Tel Aviv balcony.
- 2023What the judicial crisis revealed.
- 2023–The hostage families' movement.
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