Avi-ram Tzoreff

Avi-ram Tzoreff is a historian at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Open University of Israel, and a member of Academia for Equality, A Land for All, Civil-Mizrahi Collective, and Zochrot.

Recent Articles
Finance Minister and Religious Zionist Party chairman Bezalel Smotrich tours the Mahane Yehuda Market as part of the party’s election campaign, in Jerusalem, October 9, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Why Smotrich still defines the horizon of Israeli politics
In the nine years since the MK’s ‘Decisive Plan,’ Israeli liberals acceded to the religious right’s maximalism — while claiming to oppose ‘messianic’ violence.
By Avi-ram Tzoreff October 20, 2026
Far-right politician and Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir visits Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, June 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The sheriff comes for his share of the colony’s spoils
Like Andrew Jackson in 19th century America, Ben Gvir represents a settler underclass demanding the full privileges derived from native dispossession.
By Avi-ram Tzoreff December 1, 2022
An Israeli soldier drinks water as Palestinians look on after Israeli forces conquer Be'er Sheva during the 1948 war, October 22, 1948. (Hugo Mendelson/GPO)
Carpets, books, and jewelry: Why looting was central to the Nakba
A recent book documents the rampant looting of Palestinian belongings in 1948, but fails to recognize it as part of Israel's wider goal of dispossession.
By Avi-ram Tzoreff March 24, 2022
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