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Award-winning storyteller Boaz Dvir’s “Saving Israel” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) follows the turbulent journey of World War II aviators who risked their lives and freedom in 1947-49 to prevent what they viewed as an imminent second Holocaust. The Washington Times book reviewer Joshua Sinai described this nonfiction book as a “fascinating and dramatic account filled with lots of new information about a crucially formative period.”

An assistant professor of journalism at Penn State University, Dvir wrote a chapter for “Homegrown in Florida” (University Press of Florida, 2012), an anthology edited by William McKeen that includes childhood stories by Michael Connelly, Carl Hiaasen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Tom Petty.

Dvir writes, directs and pr Award-winning storyteller Boaz Dvir’s “Saving Israel” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) follows the turbulent journey of World War II aviators who risked their lives and freedom in 1947-49 to prevent what they viewed as an imminent second Holocaust. The Washington Times book reviewer Joshua Sinai described this nonfiction book as a “fascinating and dramatic account filled with lots of new information about a crucially formative period.”

An assistant professor of journalism at Penn State University, Dvir wrote a chapter for “Homegrown in Florida” (University Press of Florida, 2012), an anthology edited by William McKeen that includes childhood stories by Michael Connelly, Carl Hiaasen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Tom Petty.

Dvir writes, directs and produces documentaries about ordinary people who, under extraordinary circumstances, transform into trailblazers who change the world around them. They include an average inner-city schoolteacher who emerges as a disruptive innovator and a national model (Discovering Gloria); an uneducated truck driver who becomes a highly effective child-protection activist (Jessie’s Dad); a French business consultant who sets out to kill former Nazi officer Klaus Barbie and ends up playing a pivotal role in history’s most daring hostage-rescue operation (Cojot); and a World War II flight engineer who transforms into the leader of the secret operation to save Israel (A Wing and a Prayer).

Dvir teamed up with Retro Report to produce a documentary short How Special Ops Became Central to the War on Terror, for The New York Times. His most recent release, the child-poverty short, El País de la Eterna Primavera (Land of the Eternal Spring), has been an official selection at 16 film festival around the world—from Milan to Moscow to Miami—winning Best Director, Most Inspirational Short Film, and Best Micro Film in three of them.

His films have been distributed by PBS, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google Play and other outlets. Lifetime and Investigation Discovery have incorporated footage from his documentaries into their programs.

Dvir’s work has received coverage by such media as the Huffington Post, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Times, MSNBC, the New York Post, The Miami Herald, and Stars and Stripes. His films have won several prestigious awards. For instance, A Wing and a Prayer was named Best Documentary at the 2016 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

Dvir has written for many publications, including New York’s Newsday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Miami Herald, the Tampa Bay Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Las Vegas Sun, the Jerusalem Post, The Satirist, Scripps Howard’s Treasure Coast Newspapers, the Times of Israel, and Salon and Explore magazines.

Dvir wrote a syllabus on multimedia journalism ethics for Harvard University’s Kennedy School. He has also taught journalism and documentary filmmaking at the University of Florida. Working with Pennsylvania’s Department of Education, and organizations such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and his Penn State colleagues, Dvir is leading the creation of an innovative Penn State teacher-development initiative expected to revolutionize the instruction of difficult, vital subjects to children and adolescents.

]Dvir served as editor of the Jacksonville Business Journal and managing editor of the South Florida Business Journal, which are part of the Newhouse-owned American City Business Journals. He appeared on “Week in Review” and wrote commentaries for WJCT, Jacksonville’s NPR/PBS station.

Dvir created a documentary short about PALS, which helped the nonprofit that aids troubled teens receive an official nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants. Dvir received a Lilly Endowment grant from the Religion News Service to research spiritual aspects of the Holocaust.

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The Partition Plan in Perspective

Seventy-three years ago Sunday, the UN voted to split Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs. Here is what I wrote in my new book, “Saving Israel” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), about the days leading up to this historical decision from the perspectives of members of a secret, illegal operation to provide the Jewish state with an air force and arms:

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