Gershom Gorenberg is an iconoclastic columnist and associate editor at The Jerusalem Report, and is the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977, forthcoming from Times Books. Gorenberg’s previous book, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, portrays the role of religious extremism in the Mideast conflict and exposes the true motives behind Christian Right support for Israel. He also co-authored The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin, Shalom Friend, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. As a commentator on Mideast affairs and on religion, Gorenberg has appeared on Sixty Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Now With Bill Moyers, Fresh Air and on CNN and BBC. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The American Prospect and in Hebrew for the Israeli dailies Ha’aretz and Ma’ariv. Gorenberg came to Israel from California in 1977, and earned his MA in Jewish Education at Hebrew University. For many years as an army reservist, he lectured to soldiers on media-military relations. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.