Eli E. Hertz

Eli E. Hertz served seven years in the Israel Defense Forces and studied at the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, before coming to the United States in 1974. He worked for the Government of Israel in New York, earned his degrees at Long Island University, and built a career as an entrepreneur. Through all of it, his deepest commitment remained the State of Israel: he served on the executive committee of AIPAC and chaired the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, and in 1995 the United States House of Representatives honored him for strengthening ties between America and Israel.

He founded Myths and Facts to answer distortions about Israel with the documented record. Drawing on more than 25,000 documents from British and international archives, he wrote and distributed some 22,000 in-depth rebuttals on the law and history of the conflict. His book Mandate for Palestine was distributed by the Israeli government to foreign journalists, and his Reply answered the International Court of Justice’s 2004 opinion on Israel’s security barrier.

“These are not things that I imagined. They gave us legal rights.”

He built this work alongside his family, and it continues in that spirit: gathered here, free to read and share, and still growing.