Donna Rosenthal Donna Rosenthal, author of “The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land,” was an Israel TV producer, Israel Radio reporter and Hebrew University lecturer. She’s written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic and taught university journalism. A J. board member, she lives in the East Bay. Recent Stories May 5, 2021 Q&A: Helping Israeli companies thrive in the U.S. Jan 31, 2019 Berkeley’s Théo Joseph, French Resistance fighter, dies at 98 Apr 17, 2018 Take it from a foreign correspondent: Israelis are anything but ordinary.