HALLEL ABRAMOWITZ-SILVERMAN

Hallel Silverman is an activist and content creator. Raised in Jerusalem and living in Tel Aviv, she has become a leading voice on and offline for Liberal Zionism. A third generation IDF veteran, with over a decade in Israel Advocacy, Hallel has created and executed content for dozens of major organizations. She is an associate at the Tel Aviv Institute.
AN ISRAELI flag seen next to a sign pointing toward a protected space outside Mahaneh Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.

Freedom under fire: Independence Day and the shared song of Israel-Iran resilience - opinion

This Independence Day will be infused with the knowledge that Israel has the power to withstand those who seek to destroy it

APRIL 21, 2026
Israelis march in Tel Aviv at a rally organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum on September 13, 2025.

Stop prioritizing diaspora influencers over Nova survivors and hostage families - opinion

Lived experience under Hamas rockets should outweigh Instagram followers when choosing who represents Israel's story.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2025
‘I HAD been praying at the Western Wall with Women of the Wall, wearing a tallit exactly as I had since my bat mitzvah.’

Seven years after my arrest, Israel is still in religious handcuffs

It was a crime of passion – prayer. I had been praying at the Western Wall with Women of the Wall, wearing a tallit exactly as I had since my bat mitzvah.

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Bibi doesn't speak for me - an open letter to President Obama

I don’t blame you for not having a strong personal relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. God knows if I were in your position I wouldn't either. He’s kind of an ass.

MARCH 17, 2015
Then-US President Barack Obama speaks from the Rose Garden of the White House to announce his three nominees to fill vacancies on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Washington on June 4, 2013, one of which was Patricia Ann Millett (R).

Fair trade Judaism

JANUARY 29, 2015
The Jerusalem Post

The next Kotel battle: Reading from the Torah

I am a progressive religious liberal Jewish woman and as I go into the army 10 hours from now, these are some of my hopes.

MARCH 9, 2014
A Women of the Wall Torah reading

Glasnost at the Kotel?

An open letter to Natan Sharansky: "Without your support we will continue to end up being Prisoners in Zion."

APRIL 9, 2013
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky 311 (R)

The great Kotel schlep

On Purim at the Kotel, I will refuse pompous demands - in this case that women keep quiet.

FEBRUARY 20, 2013
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