MEMO caught up with Israeli comedian and activist Noam Shuster Eliassi to discuss the new Israeli government, doing comedy in Arabic, English and Hebrew and going viral on Arabic-language social media. 


Born to an Iranian-Jewish mother and Romanian Jewish father and raised in Neve Shalom/Wahat As-Salam or the 'Oasis of Peace', a community in Jerusalem where Jews and Palestinians live together by choice, Noam grew up speaking Arabic.  She attended the New York Film Academy,  Brandies and Harvard School of Divinity.  An activist who has worked in Rwanda and Palestine, Noam was the co-founder of Interpeace. She toured the United States with her own 1-woman comedy show and was the subject of an Al Jazeera documentary.