Editing Edward Witten (section)

==Personal life==
Witten has been married to [[Chiara Nappi]], a professor of physics at [[Princeton University]], since 1979.<ref>{{Cite web | last = Witten | first = Ed | title = The 2014 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture in Basic Sciences | url=https://www.sns.ias.edu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ComemorativeLecturePopular(1).pdf | access-date=January 28, 2017}}</ref> They have two daughters and a son. Their daughter [[Ilana B. Witten]] is a neuroscientist at Princeton University,<ref name = "IWitten faculty">{{Cite web | title = Faculty » Ilana B. Witten | url = https://pni.princeton.edu/faculty/ilana-witten | website = princeton.edu | access-date = November 18, 2016 }}</ref> and daughter [[Daniela Witten]] is a biostatistician at the [[University of Washington]].<ref name = "DWitten faculty">{{Cite web | title = UW Faculty » Daniela M. Witten | url = http://faculty.washington.edu/dwitten/ | website = washington.edu | access-date = July 9, 2015 }}</ref>

Witten sits on the board of directors of [[Americans for Peace Now]] and on the advisory council of [[J Street (advocacy group)|J Street]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jstreet.org/supporters/advisory-council |title=Advisory Council|publisher=J Street|year=2016|access-date=October 14, 2016}}</ref> He supports the [[two-state solution]] and advocates a boycott of Israeli institutions and economic activity beyond its 1967 borders, though not of Israel itself.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Bird|first1=Kai|last2=Abraham|first2=David|last3=Witten|first3=Edward|last4=Walzer|first4=Michael|last5=Brooks|first5=Peter|last6=Beinart|first6=Peter|last7=Gitlin|first7=Todd|title=For an Economic Boycott and Political Nonrecognition of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories &#124; Todd Gitlin|language=en|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/13/economic-boycott-israeli-settlements/|access-date=2023-02-01|issn=0028-7504}}</ref> Witten lived in Israel for a year in the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Edward Witten for Americans for Peace Now |url= https://archive.peacenow.org/entries/archive296 |date= February 8, 2005 |website= Americans for Peace Now |access-date= April 5, 2024 }}</ref>