Filmmaker, Writer, and Jewish Rebel

Portrait of Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon smiling, lit from the side against a black background.
A Palestinian woman holding a protest sign and an Israeli man in a kippah argue face to face on a Jerusalem street.

Film

Abstract photograph of deep blue and amber light glowing through rain-speckled glass in darkness.

Photography

Black-and-white close-up of an elderly man's hand writing Hebrew script with a pen on a white page.

Writing

Latest

On Eretz Nehederet, three performers as half-human, half-snake sirens on a sand dune, one singing while two applaud.

New essay

And We Hold Our Breath

What Israel's election isn't about, and why the hard conversations are the only way out.
Thumbnail for Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon's talk The Peculiar Persistence of American Circumcision.

New talk

The Peculiar Persistence of American Circumcision

My talk from the Intact Global conference this spring.
Thumbnail for the video Every 2026 California Proposition Explained in 18 Minutes.

New video

Every 2026 California Proposition Explained in 18 Minutes

A neutral guide to everything on your November ballot.

All my latest. Straight from me. No algorithm.

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Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon lying prone on red rock above the Sedona valley, shooting with a camera in the late afternoon light.

My name is Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon.

I make art about the things people would rather not talk about.

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