Adele Raemer

Adele Raemer (; born December 17, 1954) is an American–Israeli blogger and educator who is a resident of Nirim, a kibbutz close to Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.

Early life Raemer is descended from Russian Jews who fled as refugees to the United States.

Raemer grew up in Norwood, a neighborhood of The Bronx in New York City. She was educated in a Zionist Youth Movement, Young Judea and following her high school graduation, in the early 1970s, she went on a gap year program with Young Judea in Israel. After returning to the US, she initially planned to attend NYU and study theatre, but she decided to return to Israel following the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. She has lived in kibbutz Nirim since 1975, where she begins teaching that same year. In the early 1980s, Raemer gave birth to her two daughters, Maytal and Lilach, in the kibbutz. She had a son, Adam, from her second marriage.

Raemer evacuated from Nirim during Operation Cast Lead in 2008. Following the war, she joined the Movement for the Future of the Western Negev, a group pushing for the Israeli government to negotiate a peace with the Gaza Strip.

In 2019 Raemer participated in a cycling marathon organized by the Gaza Youth Committee. and Daystar TV. Following that, she participated in the Moral Hearts' Alliance initiative, together with Eagle's Wings in a Solidarity Sunday engagement in the Rock Church and World Outreach Center, telling the stories of October 7th and commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Online presence In 2011 Raemer created a Facebook group called Life on the Border With Gaza, in which she and other Israelis share their experiences.

Raemer began blogging for CNN iReport in 2012, during Operation Pillar of Defense. Today she blogs for the Times of Israel.

In 2018 Raemer spoke at the UNHRC's Independent Commission of Inquiry about events that had occurred that year on the Gazan border. She was chosen due to her social media presence, and her posts on and records of the events(including documenting fires caused by incendiary devices). Haaretz named her one of the "10 Jewish Faces Who Made Waves in 2018" for her testimony. Raemer still believes that there are "good Gazans" in Gaza who do wish to collaborate and live as good neighbors, but tragically, far fewer than she believed before.

In a 2024 interview with Hungarian Conservative, Raemer said she became more skeptical about the possibility of peace with Hamas and the PLO after October 7, stating that fewer Gazans than she had previously believed were willing to live as neighbors with Israelis.

Personal life Raemer has two children from her first marriage (Maytal and Lilach), and another from her second (Adam), from which she inherited a stepson (Daniel). Raemer's second husband, Laurie, died by suicide in 2008.