Bernard Avishai

Bernard Avishai is an Adjunct Professor of Business at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He lives in Jerusalem and the United States. He has taught at Duke University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and Dartmouth College, and was director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel. 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 has written many articles and commentaries for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harvard Business Review, Harpers Magazine and other publications. He is the author of three books on Israel, including the widely read The T

Bernard Avishai was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1949. The son of the late Ben Shaicovitch, president of Canadas Zionist Mens Association during the 1950s, he volunteered for farm work on an Israeli collective during the Six Day War, an experience that affected many of his generation. He and his first wife, the artist Susan Avishai, moved to Israel in 1972 while he was still working on a doctorate in political economy for the University of Toronto, and began writing about Israel, the history of Zionism, and the ArabIsraeli conflict. After the October War of 1973, he published a series of searching political essays in The New York Review of Books, to which he contributed regularly until the mid1980s. His reports anticipated the 1977 election that brought Menachem Begin and the Israeli right to power for a generation.

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