He graduated from Tel Aviv University, where he majored in Middle East history and political science (BA), and Middle East and European history (MA). He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford and has taught at the University of Durham and Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He was awarded the Leonard Stein Lectureship at Oxford and his newest book is entitled The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics, and Scholarship in Israel. He contributed the essay "Covering Lebanon: Media and the 2006 War" to Hovsepian's anthology The War on Lebanon.