• “For the record, Sidra and I would gladly move, if that is the price of a peace settlement. The point”
      Posted on Elie Wiesel's Jerusalem April 19, 2010 3:03 AM
    • “No, you are right, AG: the other side has its fanatics, too; I lost members of my family to terror.”
      Posted on Keep The Heat On March 15, 2010 3:12 PM
    • “I think the basic issue here is not ethnicity but the value of a distinct language and culture. You don't”
      Posted on Israel's Democratic Party: A Thought Experiment February 21, 2010 1:14 PM
    • “Forgive me, I meant to say a quarter and a quarter. I'll change it.”
      Posted on Israel's Democratic Party: A Thought Experiment February 19, 2010 2:15 PM
    • “'Avishai has been arguing that reporters can become something like a "transparent eyeball"--asking the right questions and reporting the story”
      Posted on Why The Ethan Bronner Case Matters February 10, 2010 3:12 AM
    • “"Certain Jews (me, among them) are brought up to love Israel like it's our mother." May I humbly suggest that”
      Posted on Stupid Question February 9, 2010 5:00 AM
    • “I have reported often on these issues since 1973.”
      Posted on Stupid Question February 8, 2010 1:12 PM
    • “I'll say it one more time. Humans have judgment which is not the same thing as saying they have biases.”
      Posted on Stupid Question February 8, 2010 1:11 PM
    • “MJ, I am sure there are WASPs to cover every posting. Seriously (if seriousness is really warranted here), you are”
      Posted on Stupid Question February 8, 2010 6:07 AM
    • “Dan K, as usual you get to the heart of the matter and, as usual, come out in a very”
      Posted on Stupid Question February 8, 2010 5:53 AM
    • “May I suggest readers go to this site http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/ethan_bronner and peruse what he has written and judge for themselves?”
      Posted on Stupid Question February 8, 2010 5:23 AM
    • “Again, context matters. I would have wanted to hear the whole exchange. But for the record, the Geneva Conventions did”
      Posted on Stupid Question February 8, 2010 5:21 AM
    • “That was, in context, a swipe at the very idea of reducing people to "demographics," obviously. What I fear is”
      Posted on Stupid Question February 8, 2010 5:14 AM
    • “(oops, hit the wrong key...) ...Obviously minsters and congregants may be politically active, but they cannot use church funds. I”
      Posted on Corporate Citizens? Play Ball! February 3, 2010 3:52 AM
    • “"I don't think we should waste a lot of time looking for too-clever-by-half arguments designed to convince the wealthy and”
      Posted on Corporate Citizens? Play Ball! February 3, 2010 3:39 AM
    • “"It's that big businesses have corrupted both parties on regulatory issues and that by demanding huge subsidies from government as”
      Posted on Corporate Citizens? Play Ball! February 3, 2010 3:01 AM
    • “Can't you tell the difference between a group of citizens, who are ends in themselves, united to advance a social”
      Posted on Corporate Citizens? Play Ball! February 2, 2010 11:38 AM
    • “My point, precisely, is that we should not be satisfied with CEOs "playing golf." Why did VW flourish when GM”
      Posted on Corporate Citizens? Play Ball! February 2, 2010 10:51 AM
    • “Here I have to save the Hebrew Republic from rightists. Very exhausting.”
      Posted on Triumph Of The Will February 1, 2010 4:24 AM
    • “Thank you for making it unnecessary to say more about the creepiness of the Israeli and American Jewish right. I”
      Posted on Sheikh Jarrah: 'Ground Zero' January 31, 2010 8:04 AM
    • “Huh?”
      Posted on Protest that Bernard Avishai doesn't like January 25, 2010 5:25 AM
    • “Well, since Destor23 double-dog dared me, I suppose I have to answer, Dan K., though the difference in time zones”
      Posted on Who's To Blame?--The Sequel January 23, 2010 9:03 AM
    • “Thanks, Destor23. First, timing. The problem for Obama was that he had a very narrow window to stop the terrible”
      Posted on Who's To Blame?--The Sequel January 22, 2010 7:24 AM
    • “Destor23, I know I am just asking for it by replying to you, but the BMW is 14 years old”
      Posted on Who's To Blame?--The Sequel January 21, 2010 2:49 PM
    • “Let's be clear. The health bill would cover almost everybody and force insurers to compete on service, not on cherry”
      Posted on Who's To Blame? January 19, 2010 9:27 AM
    • “Ouch, your write. (I've changed it.)”
      Posted on Who's To Blame? January 18, 2010 11:39 AM
    • “Professional fund managers know that to make 10 or 11 per cent EVERY YEAR for a generation is an absurdly”
      Posted on Nod, nod. Wink, wink. January 11, 2010 2:28 AM
    • “What are you talking about? How could you possibly construe my post, which looked forward to East Jerusalem Arabs and”
      Posted on Protesters demand the release of the Jamal Juma', a non-violent activist and leader in a movememnt that Jim Sleeper and Bernard Avishai don't know exist January 5, 2010 1:56 AM
    • “DrSteveA, Koestler's book was not a brief for Lamarckianism. He was fascinated by the ways the community of biologists in”
      Posted on Koestler's Big Week December 28, 2009 3:22 AM
    • “This also came in after I posted, from Hand in Hand Executive Director, Sam Shube: Just writing compliment you on”
      Posted on What Did You Learn In School Today? December 22, 2009 3:53 AM

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Avishai splits his time between Jerusalem and Wilmot, New Hampshire. He is adjunct professor of business at Hebrew University. He's taught at Duke, MIT, and was director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. From 1998 to 2001 he was International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG LLP. Before this he headed product development at Monitor Group, with which he is still associated. From 1986 to 1991 he was technology editor of Harvard Business Review. A Guggenheim Fellow, Avishai holds a doctorate in political economy from the University of Toronto. Before turning to management, he covered the Middle East as a journalist. He's written dozens of articles and commentaries for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harvard Business Review, Harper’s and many other publications. He is the author of three books on Israel, including the widely read, "The Tragedy of Zionism," and the recently published "The Hebrew Republic."

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