Mairav Zonszein Senior Analyst, Israel/Palestine Please submit all media inquiries to media@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Crisis Group Role Mairav joined the International Crisis Group in January 2021 as Senior Analyst on Israel/Palestine. She is responsible for covering Israeli domestic politics, relations with the Palestinians, and regional conflict settings and policies. Professional Background Mairav is an Israeli-American journalist and commentator who has covered Israeli politics and U.S. foreign policy for over a decade. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The American Prospect, VICE, The Intercept, and more. She is a founding editor of +972 Magazine and a contributor to Jewish Currents. She has an MA in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University in Budapest. Languages English Hebrew Spanish Select Publications Israel's war against George Soros, New York Times (2017) Democrats can't allow Biden to pursue annexation without consequences, Foreign Policy (2020) Christian Zionist philosemitism is driving Trump's Israel, Washington Post (2020) Israelis take on Netanyahu and coronavirus, The Intercept (2020) How the right has tried to rebrand antisemitism, New York Review of Books (2019) Latest Updates Q&A / Middle East & North Africa 22 March 2021 Two Years, Four Elections: The Twists and Turns of Israel’s Political Deadlock Israelis go to the polls – yet again – on 23 March. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Mairav Zonszein lays out the stakes for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the direction of Israel’s domestic politics and foreign policy.