Dr. Gadi Taub is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at the University of Jerusalem, but his experience expands beyond academia to political commentary, fiction writing and screenwriting. His academic expertise is in Zionism and post-Zionism, American history, and the settlement movement in Judea & Samaria. Taub has published several fiction novels, as well as a few academic works and various opinion editorials. One of his novels, Allenby Street, was turned into a television series, which he created and co-wrote script for; he was later the co-screenwriter and co-director of a series for Channel 13, Harem. He is the host of the Tablet Magazine's Israel Update podcast with Michael Doran.