Oren Kessler

Oren Kessler is an author based in Tel Aviv and New York . A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he was previously deputy director for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, Arab affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, and an editor and translator at Haaretz English edition. His work has appeared in outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Politico. He holds a BA in history from the University...See more

Oren Kessler is an author based in Tel Aviv and New York . A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he was previously deputy director for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, Arab affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, and an editor and translator at Haaretz English edition. His work has appeared in outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Politico. He holds a BA in history from the University of Toronto and an MA in diplomacy and conflict studies from Reichman University. Palestine 1936 , his first book, was named winner of the 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and among the ten best books of 2023 by the Wall Street Journal . Visit his website here: orenkessler.com. See less