Shalem Center
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The Shalem Center is an academic research institute in Jerusalem established in 1994 with the goal of developing the ideas needed to guide and sustain the Jewish state and the Jewish people in the coming decades.
Best-known for books like Michael Oren's best-selling history books Power, Faith and Fantasy[1] and Six Days of War[2] and Yoram Hazony's The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul[3], and publishing Natan Sharansky's A Case for Democracy in Hebrew, the Shalem Center has educational programs for graduate and undergraduate students from Israel and abroad, scholars writing books about Zionist history and ideas, the history of the Jewish people, Biblical archaeology, Jewish moral and political thought, and strategic studies. It is also houses an institute promoting a free market agenda in Israel.
[edit] Notable scholars and fellows
The Shalem Center has affiliated with it scholars such as Eilat Mazar, Michael Oren, Martin Kramer, Meirav Jones, Joshua Weinstein, journalist Yossi Klein Halevi and author Yoram Hazony, who is the Center's founder. Prominent public figures who are distinguished fellows at the Shalem Center include Natan Sharansky and Moshe Ya'alon.
[edit] Journals and publications
The Center is home to the quarterlies Azure and Hebraic Political Studies, the latter a peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
The Center's publishing house, Shalem Press, publishes classic Western democratic thought in Hebrew translation, as well as Jewish thought in English, which include new editions of classic works, as well as the works of theologian Eliezer Berkovits.
