Ari Shavit is a leading Israeli columnist and writer. He is a senior correspondent at  Ha’aretz newspaper and a member of its editorial board.  In recent years, his voice has  become one of the most powerful and influential voices in Israel’s public arena. His  unique writing, which challenges the dogmas of both right and left, has made him one of  the leading political thinkers of the Jewish state.  His new book, My Promised Land,  published...

Miriam Fendius Elman is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. Oded Haklai is associate professor of political studies at Queen’s University. Hendrik Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations and director of the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University. “Helman, Haklai, and Spruyt’s edited book is a major contribution to our...

Professor Dan Avnon is a political theorist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dan is currently the Grafstein Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Jewish Studies. His publications in the past five years include edited books on Plurality and Citizenship in Israel, Civic Education in Israel, and a Hebrew version of his book Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue. This in addition to essays in general and...

Elie Friedman is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His dissertation engages in a discourse analysis of Israeli political leaders’ presentation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in various political, geo-strategic, and ideological contexts and in changing media environments....

Mark A. Heller is Principal Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies (formerly the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies), Tel Aviv University and editor of its quarterly journal, Strategic Assessment. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Economics at the University of Toronto and did his graduate studies at Harvard University, where he earned an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science. He...