Gerald M. Steinberg

Gerald M. Steinberg was born in 1952 in London

Steinberg was born in London in 1952 and grew up in San Francisco. He first came to Israel in 1971 as a student.

He earned a bachelor's degree in physics and Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973. He received a master's in physics from the University of California, San Diego, in 1975, and a doctorate in government from Cornell University in 1981.

He moved to Israel officially in 1982 and began teaching at Bar Ilan University, where he became a professor of political science. He founded a program on conflict management and negotiation there. He has advised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Security Council, and writes for The Jerusalem Post.

In 2001 he founded NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem group that reports on non-governmental organizations and their stance toward Israel. He has criticized groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, and some of them have disputed his reporting. In 2010 he sued for European Commission documents on NGO funding, and the court rejected his petition.

He lives in Jerusalem, is married, and has 4 children.