Asaf Elia-Shalev is a senior reporter with JTA and is based in Los Angeles. He is also the author of “Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth,” which was published by UC Press in 2024.
Asaf Elia-Shalev
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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