Yuval Elizur is a sixth gen­er­a­tion Israeli, liv­ing in Jerusalem. The author of sev­er­al books, he is a for­mer deputy edi­tor and eco­nom­ics reporter for Israel’s largest dai­ly news­pa­per Ma’ariv, and has served as Jerusalem cor­re­spon­dent for The Wash­ing­ton Post and The Boston Globe. A vet­er­an of two wars, he was the Colum­bia School of Jour­nal­is­m’s first Israeli graduate.