Bernard Avishai

Lior Schleien is often referred to as Israel’s Jon Stewart, a comparison that amuses him, since it exaggerates his small country’s standing even more than his own, but he’ll take it. Schleien, who is forty-eight, was born and grew up in Tel Aviv; he earned a master’s degree in law, but in the early two-thousands he turned his focus to comedy, writing a satirical column for the newspaper Maariv Read more of this blog post »