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Dog, with Yishay Ishi Ron

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Yishay Ishi Ron served in an elite combat unit and came home with PTSD, and Dog is the novel that came out of it. Note the time: this one is at noon Eastern.

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Cover of Dog by Yishay Ishi Ron, translated by Yardenne Greenspan: the title in tall green letters, with a dog sitting in silhouette against a grey sky.

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Speaker

  • Yishay Ishi Ron

    Yishay Ishi Ron

    Author of Dog

    Yishay Ishi Ron is an Israeli writer, a former soldier in an elite combat unit, and the son of a Holocaust survivor. He lives with severe PTSD, and writing has been a big part of how he has healed. Dog comes out of his own experience.

    The Hebrew edition was longlisted for the Sapir Prize, Israel’s top literary award, and it is being made into a feature film. In English, in Yardenne Greenspan’s translation, it won two National Jewish Book Awards, one for Hebrew fiction in translation and one for book clubs. His second novel in English, The Girl Who Rode the White Lion, came out in June 2026. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and three children.

Dog is a short novel, about 180 pages, and a hard one. The man telling it goes by Geller. He was a decorated officer in an elite unit, he was wounded in Gaza, and now he lives in a Tel Aviv squat with two other addicts and feeds a heroin habit. Then a stray dog crosses his path, and he tries to look after it when he can barely look after himself. Some of the chapters are told by the dog.

Yishay wrote it out of his own war and his own PTSD, and he says so in the author’s note. It won the National Jewish Book Award for book clubs, and there’s a lot in it to talk about: what an army asks of the young people it sends, what comes home with them, and who looks after them when it does. Fair warning: the war scenes are graphic.

Yishay joins us from Tel Aviv to talk about the book and to take your questions. When he goes, we carry on talking about it. Stay on afterwards to schmooze. That part is never recorded.

Note the time: this one is at noon Eastern, 7 PM in Tel Aviv, not our usual eight in the evening.

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