Elazar Weiss is a doctoral candidate at Yale Law School, writing about metaphors and the construction of political narratives. A graduate of Tel Aviv University and former clerk on the Israeli Supreme Court, he is a co-founder of the Agora Initiative, which promotes reconciliation and long-term solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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