The occupation, Netanyahu’s long hold  on power, and the Trump years have  strained Israel’s democracy. How can  Israel emerge from the crisis, and what  challenges face the Biden administration  in the relationship? Join Israeli historian  and journalist Gershom Gorenberg for a  conversation on how we’ve gotten here  and where we can go. 

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Gershom Gorenberg is a Washington Post columnist and the author of War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East, forthcoming from Public Affairs. Gorenberg previously wrote three critically acclaimed books on Israel’s history and politics - The Unmaking of Israel, The Accidental Empire; Israel and the Birth of Settlements, 1967-197; and The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. He co-authored Shalom Friend, a biography of Yitzhak Rabin and winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Gorenberg has been a visiting professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and will return to teach there in 2021. As a commentator on Middle East affairs and on religions, he has appeared on Sixty Minutes, Dateline, Fresh Air, and on CNN and BBC. He is a senior correspondent for American Prospect and has written for Atlantic Monthly,  New York Times Magazine,  New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz.