FORA.tv Speaker - Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow in the Shalem Center's Institute for Zionist History and Thought and the Israel correspondent of the New Republic.

Halevi is the author of Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (1995) and At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land (2001).

He has been a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, a regular contributor on Israeli affairs to the Los Angeles Times, and a frequent guest on CNN and other national and international broadcast media. The 1983 documentary film, "Kaddish," directed by Steve Brand, focuses on Halevi's relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, and was named by the New York-based Village Voice as one of the ten best films of the year. Halevi is currently writing a book about the Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem in 1967.