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)