For Israel and the UAE, Divergence over Iran Proves the Durability of Normalization
More than my enemy’s enemy.
January 11, 2022
Meet “Chinese Itzik.”
In the coastal city of Haifa, a new, expanded, and fully modernized port has just opened—run by a Chinese company. The project raised eyebrows in Washington, tied to to long-running disagreements over the implications of Jerusalem’s economic relations with Beijing. Matti Friedman explores the issue by profiling a man known as “Chinese Itzik,” the Communist country’s Hebrew-speaking, media-savvy public-relations man in Israel:
More than my enemy’s enemy.
Meet “Chinese Itzik.”
The massacre that wasn’t.
What happens when moral structures collapse.
All-of-a-Kind Family.
In the coastal city of Haifa, a new, expanded, and fully modernized port has just opened—run by a Chinese company. The project raised eyebrows in Washington, tied to to long-running disagreements over the implications of Jerusalem’s economic relations with Beijing. Matti Friedman explores the issue by profiling a man known as “Chinese Itzik,” the Communist country’s Hebrew-speaking, media-savvy public-relations man in Israel:
Unlock the most serious Jewish, Zionist, and American thinking.
Subscribe Now