Menachem Klein is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and was a team member of the Geneva Initiative negotiations of 2003. He has advised both the Israeli government and the Israeli delegation for peace talks with the PLO (2000), and was a fellow at Oxford University and a visiting professor at MIT. Klein is the author of Jerusalem: The Contested City and The Jerusalem Problem: The Struggle for Permanent Status.
Haim Watzman has translated works by David Grossman, Amos Oz, Tom Segev, and other leading Israeli writers and scholars. He is the author of Company C: An
American's Life as a Citizen Soldier in Israel and A Crack in the Earth: A Journey Up Israel's Rift Valley.