He studied history at the LSE and Warwick University. He is a social historian, and his primary research interests are modern labor and business history of Palestine and Israel. His publications include Idealism and Bureaucracy in 1920s Palestine: The Origins of 'Red Haifa' (1999, in Hebrew) and Dock Workers: International Explorations in Labor History, 1790-1970 (2000, co-edited). Currently he is writing on Strikes in Israeli history and is involved in a project on new perspectives in the business history of the modern Middle East. See less