Professor David Ricci lives in Mevaseret. He grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and made aliyah to Israel with his wife in 1970. He was Chair of the Department of American Studies, and then Chair of the Department of Political Science, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has taught in several American universities, including Penn State, Michigan, Penn, Wake Forest, and Tulsa. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and also at the Center for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington. D.C. His latest book is Post-Truth American Politics: False Stories and Current Crises (Cambridge University Press, 2023).