Oren Kessler (Hebrew: אורן קסלר) is an American political analyst, author and journalist.
Kessler grew up in Rochester, New York, has a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Toronto and a Master of Arts in Government from Reichman University, Herzliya.
[1][2] He was formerly deputy director for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C.[3] Kessler was Arab affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, an editor, translator and writer for the English edition of Haaretz[2] and a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society think tank in London.
Sotloff wrote to Kessler in 2011 to introduce himself as a fellow former Reichman student.
His book, Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in February 2023[16] and won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.