Oren Kessler is a jour­nal­ist and polit­i­cal ana­lyst based in New York and Tel Aviv. He has served as deputy direc­tor for research at the Foun­da­tion for Defense of Democ­ra­cies in Wash­ing­ton, an Arab affairs cor­re­spon­dent for The Jerusalem Post, and an edi­tor and trans­la­tor at Haaretz. Pales­tine 1936, his first book, won the 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture, was named among the 10 best books of the year by the Wall Street Jour­nal, and was a final­ist for a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award.