Learning Library

Featuring poetry and reflections honoring the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks.

Reda Mansour is an Israeli Druze poet, historian and diplomat. He has published three books of Hebrew poetry and received the University of Haifa Miller Award as well as the State President Scholarship for young writers. Reda was born (1965) in the Druze village of Isfiya in northern Israel. He has a Ph.D from the University of Haifa's Middle East History Department and a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School where he was a Wexner Israel Fellow. He studied Spanish at Salamanca University, and a general studies semester in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Rachel Korazim is a Jewish education consultant at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, specializing in curriculum development for Israel and Holocaust education. Until 2008 she was the Academic Director of distance learning programs at the Jewish Agency’s Department of Education. Born in Israel, she served as an IDF officer in the central training base for women and was later a member of the IDF delegation to Niger (West Africa). She is a graduate of Haifa University with a Ph.D. in Jewish education. Dr. Korazim has vast experience in Jewish education in Israel, the US, Canada, Latin America, and Europe. She is a founder of a special program for soldiers from disadvantaged backgrounds. She is involved with Jewish education worldwide. Since 1990, she has invested time and energy in helping emerging Jewish schools of Hungary.