Anav Silverman
A native of Maine, Anav Silverman is a columnist and educator whose work has been published widely online and in print, both in Israel and internationally. She has appeared on Al Jazeera, BBC Radio, and CBS 2 and has contributed to BBC News, The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Huffington Post, Bangor Daily News, Maariv, Ynet News, The Jewish Chronicle, Sderot Media Center, Tazpit Press Service and other publications. She also teaches at the Hebrew University Secondary School of Education (Leyada) in Jerusalem.
Presenting Sderot to England
This is my first trip to London, England to talk about the rocket situation in Sderot and the Western Negev. Through my media presentations...
May 2008 UPDATE
May 9: On Friday May, Jimmy Kedoshim, 48, a member of Kibbutz Kfar Aza and father of three, was killed by a mortar attack...
Dialogue with Arab students
On Thursday evening, May 29, a group of Israeli and Arab college students were aired live on Al Jazeera from Haifa from where they...
Netivot: The next Sderot?
This past Saturday, May 24, two red alert sirens activated throughout the western Negev city of Netivot. Two grad Katyusha rockets, fired at the...
My Story: A Mother Speaks Out from Kfar Aza
Karen, a mother of three young children in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, on the border with Gaza, wrote the following letter almost one year ago....
Young Judea Visits Sderot
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, a group of American and Canadian students visiting Israel on a gap-year (Young Judea) program, with their advisor...
Rocket Barrage Strikes Sderot
On Sunday afternoon, May 4, Sderot residents experienced loud rocket explosions and seven 'red alert' siren warnings, as rockets were fired at the western...
April 2008 UPDATE
April 4, 2008: Members of the Canada-Israel Committee were targeted by Palestinian sniper fire while on a solidarity mission with Sderot residents at a...
Tough Questions from Sderot
Part of my job at Sderot Media Center involves a lot of translating. Because I am a native English speaker, and most of the...
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Sderot
By 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, 13 Qassams have fallen on Sderot. I smell the smoke from the last rocket explosion as I stand outside our...
