We recently hosted world-renowned historian Simon Sebag Montefiore here at the National Library of Israel, where he was interviewed onstage by the wonderful Matti Friedman. You can listen to the full conversation by checking out the link in the first comment. During the talk, Montefiore told us about: His favorite place in Jerusalem The antisemitism he experienced in the UK while writing his classic - "Jerusalem: The Biography" His strange communications with Vladimir Putin, how he was allowed p