92Y: Ari Shavit with David Remnick; The Tragedy and Triumph of Israel Haaretz senior correspondent Ari Shavit joins New Yorker editor David Remnick for an incisive analysis of the Jewish state's fraught history - and its prospects for the future. Shavit's new book, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, is the sweeping result of his 30 years in the trenches of Israeli society and politics.