Dr. Mordechai Kedar is an Israeli scholar of Arabic culture and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Studies and has an impressive 25-year background in IDF Military Intelligence, where he specialized in Islamic groups, Arab political discourse, and the Arabic press. He is also widely known for being one of the few Arabic-speaking Israeli pundits who regularly appears on Arabic satellite channels to defend Israel.