ETHAN BRONNER is currently the Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times. He has also held positions as foreign editor, education editor, and editorial page editor at the Times, where he wrote a number of the paper's editorials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As editor he worked on a series of articles about Al Qaeda that were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. Previously at the Boston Globe he served as Supreme Court and legal affairs correspondent. He is the author of Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America, chosen by The New York Public Library as one of the best 25 books of the year.