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Jul 5, 2018, 11:53 PM

My Son the Solider

Our son Guy was released from the IDF in May 2018. My wife, Betsy Winnick Melamed, wrote this dedication for the occasion. Betsy made aliyah in 1991 and, as she says, having children in the IDF is what finally...

Jun 3, 2018, 10:09 PM

Samson’s Foxes and the Kites of Gaza

During the 1948 War of Independence, "Samson’s Foxes", the Israeli commando unit of the Givati Brigade, fought on the southern front. The unit was named after the Biblical story of Samson, who avenged himself creatively on the Philistines: “Samson caught...

Mar 15, 2018, 9:40 PM

Kul Lisan Insan

My daughter Eden, a cadet in the Officer Training Course, came home on Friday afternoon for the weekend. “Dad, I’ve doubled my vocabulary in Arabic!” declared my daughter with a mischievous grin. I listened with curiosity. Even after spending several...

Jan 22, 2018, 10:11 AM

Anchors to the Sublime

“I’m sorry,” Patti wrote to me when she had to cancel a Christmas greetings phone call with the President of a leading American company, where she works as his executive assistant. To sweeten the pill of cancellation and to reinforce...

Nov 15, 2017, 7:05 PM

“Ultimately, the aim of karate is to make us better people.In karate, we seek constant improvement.We always aspire to be a bit better than we were the time before… that’s why karate doesn’t have a rank of 10th Dan…...

Jul 31, 2017, 2:03 PM

The Kotel Agreement and the Maccabiah Games

The recent cancelation of the Kotel (Western Wall) Agreement, which was supposed to constitute a major step towards egalitarian prayer in the Kotel Plaza and government recognition of non-Orthodox streams of Judaism, enraged the Jewish world. “The Israeli government...

Mar 29, 2017, 3:08 PM

Historic Opportunity for America

I was in Missouri for the 2016 US Presidential Elections, having timed a business trip to be there for what was clearly going to be historic elections. If Hillary Clinton were elected, it would be the first time for...

Feb 19, 2017, 4:51 PM

In Mexico City, after delivering a workshop on the Art and Science of Fundraising to the staff of a local philanthropic foundation, I received a good lesson in how the State of Israel is viewed from the other side...

Sep 30, 2016, 4:23 PM

This summer, we celebrated the bat mitzvah of our youngest, Sivan, in our community of Hoshaya, which is proud of its religious tolerance and openness. I would say relative tolerance and openness. We are, after all, a Religious-Zionist community....

Aug 29, 2016, 11:34 AM

Concentration camp and apfelstrudel

How eating apple pastry in Austria became a profound Zionist statement

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About Me

Sagi Melamed is Vice President of External Relations and Development at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, President of the Harvard Club of Israel and author of "Son of My Land" and "Fundraising" - the 1st Hebrew book about Resource Development. Sagi can be reached at melamed.sagi@gmail.com.