Yair Rosenberg’s profile of me for Tablet magazine

There is something in this people, covenanted to justice, to memory, to one another, that is impossible to extinguish.

Americans – and Israelis in particular – are not reacting to spin, or to partisan framing, or to media distortions. They are reacting to the text of the agreement itself, and to what has followed it.

Almost overnight, Yair Golan transformed from a retired general into one of the most talked-about politicians in Israel.

Beyond the on-field excitement of global soccer lies a deeper opportunity: to draw hard-earned lessons from the nations that have long dominated the beautiful game.

America is not modern Israel’s creator, and Israel is not America’s dependent. The two nations have influenced one another and benefited from one another, but the deepest roots of that relationship predate them both.