Why She Chose Comedy Over Diplomacy

Noam Shuster-Eliassi is what some people might call a ‘unicorn’.

She’s an anti-Zionist, Jewish-Iranian Israeli who speaks fluent Arabic and grew up in a tiny village in Israel called the ‘Oasis of Peace’, where Jews and Palestinians choose to live together. And while she started a career in diplomacy with a stint at the United Nations trying to bring pea…