is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is known to be one of today’s greatest philosophers on social and ethical issues. After finishing his Ph.D in Jerusalem (1970), he was - among other things - British Council Scholar at Oxford University and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He wrote Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration (with Edna Ullman-Margalit, 1991), The Decent Society (1998), Idolatry (with Moshe Halbertal and Naomi Goldblum, 1998) and The Ethics of Memory (2004). In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Dutch Spinozalens. Highly influential was and still is his Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (with Ian Buruma, 2004). On this same topic he delivered the Nexus Lecture 2004 (published in Nexus 41). In December 2007 he received the EMET Prize, which is generally considered Israel’s Nobel Prize. He published in Nexus 14, 15, 24, 41 and 45. He contributes to Nexus 50 with an essay on Human Dignity.