The Jewish People Policy Institute

Guy Zohar is a journalist, news presenter, and moderator of current affairs programs. He has hosted numerous current affairs programs over the past several decades, including the evening show HaYom SheHaya (“The Day that Was”). He hosts the program MeHaTzad HaSheni (“From the Other Side”) on Kan – the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation; the show uncovers gaps between the information provided by the media and what is actually going on.

Dr. Dayan is a journalist and host of the investigative television program Uvda (“Fact”), which has aired continuously since 1993, first on Channel 2 and then on Channel 12. In 2015 Dr. Dayan won the Sokolov Prize for her groundbreaking work as a journalist and her pioneering contribution to investigative television reporting. She holds a doctorate in law from Yale University, and teaches a course on freedom of expression in the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Zicherman is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Ono Academic College and a fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI). His work focuses on public law, especially issues of religion and state; he is also an expert on real estate law. In recent years he has headed the School of Real Estate, which he founded, at Ono Academic College.

Mr. Darawshe is a social activist, conflict resolution expert, and political commentator.

He holds a master’s degree in conflict resolution (University of Haifa) and a master’s degree in public administration (University of Hartford). He is currently Director of Planning, Equality, and Shared Society at Givat Haviva, and is a research fellow under the auspices of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, where he studies the status of national minorities in Europe. He is also a research fellow at the Hartman Institute.

Prof. Shapira is Professor (emerita) of Jewish history at Tel-Aviv University, and one of the most important scholars of the 20^th century Jewish community in Palestine-Eretz Israel (the Yishuv). Her fields of research are political, cultural, social, intellectual, and military history. Her work earned her the Israel Prize for history (2008). Professor Shapira has served as dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Cohen is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University where he heads the School of Communication.

Professor Cohen’s research focuses on Religious Zionist society in Israel. He deals with issues of religion, society, and state, collective identity in Israel, and Israel’s religious-secular divide.

Professor Stern is President of the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), a full professor in the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, and a former dean of the Faculty. He served as vice president for research, senior fellow, and the founder and academic director of the  Human Rights and Judaism Program at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI). He has headed the Committee for Civics Studies in the Ministry of Education and has served on the boards of multiple public companies, including Bank Leumi. Prof. Stern, a graduate of Harvard University, is an expert on public law (nationality, religion and state), and business law (corporations and banks), and has published dozens of books and articles on these topics.

Professor Elbashan is a writer, community lawyer, and dean of the Faculty of Law at Ono Academic College. He also hosts current affairs programs on Reshet Bet and Channel 1. Until September 2013 he served as deputy director general of Yedid – the Association for Community Empowerment, and as director of Yedid’s network of rights centers in Israel’s disadvantaged periphery; Professor Elbashan cofounded the organization in 1997. He also founded and directed the International Human Rights Clinic in the Clinical Legal Education Center in Hebrew University’s Faculty of Law.

Professor Elbashan is an expert on human rights and social law. He has authored ten books, including the bestsellers Strangers in the Realm of the Law and Attorneys of the Exploited, and other works of suspense and fiction that have sold some two hundred thousand copies.

Professor Tamir is President of Beit Berl College and a lecturer in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.  She has been a faculty member at Tel Aviv University, a research fellow at Princeton University, Harvard University and Jerusalem’s Hartman Institute, and president of Shenkar College. From 2006-2009 she served as Israel’s Minister of Education.

Professor Shapira is President of Peres Academic Center. He formerly served as dean of the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, and as a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. His areas of expertise are legal procedure, rules of evidence, criminal law, and mathematical formulations of legal doctrines. Since 1999, Professor Shapira has been on the editorial board of the journal Law, Probability and Risk, published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Ruth Gavison was one of Israel’s greatest scholars of public law and the philosophy of law. She received the Israel Prize for legal scholarship (2011).

Much of her research focused on legal issues relating to morality, religion, politics, and society, and she dealt extensively with the issue of Israel as “a Jewish and democratic state.”
In 2003, together with Rabbi Yaaqov Medan, she published the Gavison-Medan Covenant, which offers an outline for regulating matters of religion and state in Israel. In 2005, Gavison founded the Metzilah Center of Zionist, Jewish, Liberal and Humanistic Thought, and headed it until her death in August 2020.