Ori Yehu­dai is the Saul and Sonia Schot­ten­stein Chair in Israel Stud­ies and Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of His­to­ry at the Ohio State Uni­ver­si­ty, spe­cial­iz­ing in mod­ern Jew­ish and Israeli his­to­ry. Raised in Kib­butz Shamir in north­ern Israel, he earned his Ph.D. from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go and has held posi­tions at NYU, McGill, and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto.