Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and co-director, together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University, of the Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), which teaches emerging young Muslim American leaders about Judaism, Jewish identity, and Israel. Halevi has written numerous books, beginning with “Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist”, called “a book of burning importance” by the New York Times, which tells the story of his teenage years as a follower of the militant right-wing Meir Kahane and his subsequent disillusionment with Jewish radicalism. His 2013 book, “Like Dreamers”, won the Jewish Book Council's Everett Book of the Year Award, and his latest book, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor”, is a New York Times bestseller. Halevi writes for leading op-ed pages including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, and is a former contributing editor to the New Republic. Born in Brooklyn, he moved to Israel in 1982 and lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Sarah, who runs a center for Jewish meditation.