Bio

Adi Schwartz is a writer, academic and researcher, focusing on issues relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is the author of the best-selling book "The War of Return" (in Hebrew, 2018, Kinneret publishing house), together with Einat Wilf. An English version is forthcoming in winter 2020.
Schwartz is an expert on the Palestinian refugee problem and the history of Jews from Arab countries. He is currently writing his PhD dissertation in the department of Political Science in Bar-Ilan University. He has a BA in History from Tel Aviv University, and an MA (with distinction) in Political Science from Bar-Ilan University.
He is a published author in both English and Hebrew. A former staff writer and senior editor for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, he has published articles in the Israeli press, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The Forward, The Tablet and The Jewish Chronicle. 
He speaks on US campuses as well as to overseas delegations visiting Israel. He is an official instructor of the Ministry of Education on the issue of Jews from Arab countries, and appears frequently on TV. He is a Fellow at the Center for International Communications in Bar-Ilan University.