Assaf David
Co-Founder and Academic Director
Dr. Assaf David is a founding member and academic director of the Forum for Regional Thinking (FORTH). He teaches at the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of…
Eli Osheroff
Research Associate
Eli Osheroff is an historian of the modern Middle East, with a particular focus on Arab intellectual and political history and the Zionist-Arab conflict. He completed his three degrees at…
Iris Fruchter-Ronen
Research Associate
Dr Iris Fruchter-Ronen teaches at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and in the Department of Culture and Film Studies, University of Haifa. Her research at the Forum for Regional Thinking…
Inbal Nissim-Louvton
Research Associate
Inbal Nissim-Louvton holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African studies from Tel Aviv University. She teaches at the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Open University…
Ayelet Levi
Research Associate
Ayelet Levi holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African studies from Tel Aviv University. She is an analyst for Middle Eastern affairs at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
Liora Sion
Research Associate
Dr. Liora Sion is a sociologist who specialized in peacekeeping, peacebuilding, gender and ethnicity. She got her PhD from Amsterdam School for Social Research and was a postdoctoral fellow at…
Elie Friedman
Research Associate
Elie Friedman (Ph.D.) is an adjunct lecturer at the School of Communication, Bar-Ilan University, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Maryland, Department of Israel Studies. He is the…
Samuel Lederman
Research Associate
Dr. Shmuel Lederman teaches in the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the Open University, and in the International Program for Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa.…
Giora Eliraz
Research Associate
Dr. Giora Eliraz is Affiliate Instructor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington (in Seattle); Research Associate, Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University…
Yoni Mendel
Research Associate
Dr. Yoni Mendel is the project manager of the Middle East field at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Center for the Study…
Dotan Halevi
Research Associate
Dotan Halevi is a historian of the modern Middle East and a senior lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His areas of…
Eran Tzidkiyahu
Research Associate
Eran Tzadokiyahu is a researcher of Jewish-Arab relations and a geopolitical guide. He completed his doctoral dissertation on religious nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a comparative lens at the…
Yaël Ronen
Research Associate
Prof. Yaël Ronen is a faculty member and teaches international law at the Academic Center for Law and Science, and a research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights,…
Einat Levi
Research Associate
Einat Levi is an entrepreneur, a researcher, and a strategic consultant to public, private and civic actors, specializing in Morocco and its relations with Israel. Following the renewal of official ties between the countries, Einat…
