Avi Melamed is a former Israeli intelligence official who went on to serve as deputy and then senior Arab-affairs adviser to Jerusalem mayors Teddy Kollek and Ehud Olmert, operating as a negotiator during the First and Second Intifadas in Israel. He is the author of Inside the Middle East: Entering a New Era, and his latest docuseries, “The Seam Line,” focuses on Jerusalem’s flashpoints and his work during the intifadas.
