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Bethany Mandel

Bethany Mandel

Bethany Mandel is the co-founder of ShieldGiving, a nonprofit initiative supporting families of hostages and promoting accurate media representation of Israel and the Middle East. She is also the co-author of the 2023 book Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.

In Israel and the Diaspora, Jews who had never thought of themselves as religious began lighting candles.
Chaim Meisels, who was part of the unit that killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, told JNS that he was able to talk to the Florida congressman “veteran to veteran.”
Questions surround his experience in the international arena, his stance on Israel and his position on human rights.