Meet Noa Tishby
I was unfamiliar with Noa Tishby before reading Robert Sarner’s Times of Israel profile “Israeli actress Noa Tishby’s ‘Simple Guide’ to Israel shakes up US progressives.” Tishby is an Israeli native and left/liberal Zionist who has undertaken the defense of Israel from her perch as a Hollywood actress and producer. The Times of Israel headline refers to her new book
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth.
Tishby is making the media rounds to promote her new book. Matt Lewis interviewed her last month for nearly an hour (video below). She is ferociously articulate and knowledgeable. She is also talkative, but capable of concision. Sarner quotes her: “If you believe in democracy, freedom of speech, human rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and especially if you’re a liberal and a progressive, and you’re not supporting Israel within the context of the Middle East, you’re an idiot.”
Article content Galya Sarner and her daughter, Shani Sarner-Lati, the women behind food business Galya Loves Food. SUPPLIED PHOTO
“Sometimes mom leads the way, and I’m the sous-chef, and sometimes it’s the other way around when we introduce new products, and I lead.
“There’s no ego here.”
Galya Sarner was born and raised in Jerusalem and came to Toronto via Paris.
“In Jerusalem I grew up in the heart of the market, until age eight. I inherited the skill and the passion for food from my mother,” she said.
Early in her marriage, Sarner lived in Paris again, near a market.
Robert Rotenberg on King Street East, near his office in downtown Toronto, January 2021. (Robert Sarner)
The George Street Diner in downtown Toronto where a scene takes place in Robert Rotenberg s book, January 2021. (Photo by Robert Rotenberg)
Robert Rotenberg in downtown Toronto near his office, January 2021. (Robert Sarner)
Robert Rotenberg at the launch of his first book, Old City Hall, in Toronto, March 2009. (Photo by Ted Feld)
TORONTO For the past 22 years, Canadian criminal defense lawyer and bestselling author Robert Rotenberg has wrestled with homicide detective Ari Greene’s tribulations. As the main protagonist in each of Rotenberg’s six murder mysteries, Greene has loomed large in his creator’s life since he conceived of the master sleuth in 1999 while writing his first crime thriller.