My guest today is a comedian who is very quickly making a name for herself in Israel and abroad. Noam Shuster Eliassi has an amazing life story, and she’s only in her early 30’s! She grew up in a very unique place, Neve Shalom, a small village of Israeli Jews and Palestinians, an experiment of sorts. In the podcast, I ask her if she thinks the experiment was a success...
She's worked in Rwanda, she’s worked for the UN and other NGO’s, but then - she dropped all that and started telling jokes. She began to use comedy as a tool to make bridges, to forge alliances, to give hope.
But it’s the past year that really rocked Noam’s world - beginning a fellowship in Harvard, that was midway put on hold because of no other than Covid-19. She decided to go back home to Israel - and... guess what happened just a few days after she landed….
You’ll just have to listen to find out…