Jeffrey Weiss is the author of Racing Against Time: On Ironman, Ultramarathons, and the Quest for Transformation in Mid-Life (MSI Press, October 1, 2025), a fitness and personal transformation memoir. He is also the co-author of I Am My Brother’s Keeper (Schiffer Military History, 1998), which chronicles the American and Canadian volunteers who served in all branches of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 War of Independence, and Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force (Post Hill Press/Wicked Son, 2022). He is featured in Nancy Spielberg’s acclaimed 2014 documentary Above and Beyond (available on Amazon Prime), which tells the story of American pilots in Israel’s founding air force and earned 22 film festival awards. He also appears in the 2000 documentary Israel’s Forgotten Heroes, narrated by Hal Linden.

Fluent in Hebrew, Jeffrey completed a year of law school at Bar Ilan University and holds a law degree along with master’s degrees in International Law (Georgetown University Law Center) and Biotechnology (Johns Hopkins University). For over 25 years, he has written extensively on Middle East security issues.

In addition to his academic and writing accomplishments, Jeffrey is an experienced entrepreneur, having served for more than a decade as a C-suite executive at a startup that was recently acquired for $3 billion. He is also passionate about fitness and is a two-time Ironman and ultramarathoner.

Jeffrey lives in Tel Aviv, where in 2024 he founded Stickers of Meaning, a project that preserves and educates about the memorial stickers that have appeared throughout Israel since October 7, 2023—honoring the fallen and inspiring the living with messages of love, purpose, daring, and joy.