Nadav G. Molchadsky is a historian who specializes in modern Jewish history, history of Zionism, and the State of Israel. His research focuses on the complex web of relations among public affairs, historiography, law, and media. Molchadsky has a special interest in processes of collective memory formation and commissions of inquiry, particularly state and military. He has written and lectured about key traumatic events in the history of the Yishuv (the pre-state Jewish community of Palestine) and Israel. These topics include, for example, the affair of the Arlosoroff murder, the 1948 War, the Yom Kippur War, the riots of October 2000, and the Yemenite Children Affair—all of which led to the establishment of commissions of inquiry. In 2017–2018 Molchadsky was a Research Fellow at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, and the Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.