Former Mossad official Yossi Alpher is an Israeli writer and consultant. He headed a strategic think tank at Tel Aviv University, was special adviser to Ehud Barak during the 2000 Camp David Summit, and co-founded and edited the Israeli-Palestinian online publication bitterlemons.net.
He is the author of Periphery: Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies (Rowman and Littlefield) and No End of Conflict: Rethinking Israel-Palestine(Rowman and Littlefield), and is a guest at two events at the Auckland Writers Festival in May.