Shai Har-El Author

Shai Har-El is a historian, educator, writer, poet, rabbi, philanthropist, and businessman. He spent his formative childhood and young adulthood in Israel and served in the Israeli army, both in active duty (1964-66) and army service (1969-71). He participated in the Six Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973). In the last twenty-five years (1990-present), he has been active in building bridges of understanding and reconciliation across the Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Muslim conflict divides. He is the author of Struggle for Domination in the Middle East and Where Islam and Judaism Join Together.