My story
Policy researcher and lecturer in local government. Research, policy and fieldwork, from the Israel Democracy Institute to Knesset committees.
I grew up in Givatayim and took football seriously: I played professionally for Hapoel Ramat Gan, just across the city line. What stayed with me from the pitch, more than anything, is a love of the team game.
Today I’m married to Yael and dad to Ido, and we live on Kibbutz Tzora. From a crowded city in the centre of the country to a kibbutz in the Shephelah – maybe that’s why I’m so curious about how the place we live shapes our lives.
Now, to the main part.
I am a policy researcher specializing in local government. Most of my work asks how local authorities can strengthen Israeli democracy: what they are allowed to do, how they are funded, how transparent they are to residents and how well they serve them.
At the Israel Democracy Institute I was a research assistant in the Local Government Project, and together with Dr. Ariel Finkelstein I wrote studies and data reviews on central–local relations, budget transparency, council meetings and municipal call centers. I went on to research local government at the Israeli Movement, and at Shittah – Institute for Local Policy I headed research and development. In that role I also took part in a Knesset Interior Committee debate on compensation for council members.
I have also seen politics up close. At MARPOR I coded Israeli party manifestos under the international scheme of the Comparative Manifesto Project, and in the February 2024 local elections I ran election day for Ran Kunik’s campaign and the “Givatayim Shelanu” list: 300 staff and volunteers in a single day.
I have taught at Reichman University since 2016, as a teaching assistant at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, where I also earned my BA and MA. Since 2025 I have lectured on local government, central government and regulation at the School of Management of the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College. In 2026 I joined the Israeli Foundation for Democracy.
Career path
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2026 – present
The Israeli Foundation for Democracy
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Feb 2024
Ran Kunik and “Givatayim Shelanu” campaign
Election day manager
Trained and supervised 300 staff and volunteers, designed the organizational structure and language, set up the headquarters and rolled out a voter management system.
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Oct 2021 – Sep 2023
Institute for Liberty & Responsibility, Reichman University
Academic coordinator and media manager
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Oct 2016 – present
Reichman University & Hadassah College
Teaching assistant
At the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at Reichman, and since 2023 at the School of Politics and Communication at Hadassah Academic College.
Education
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2020
Professional certificate in planning and building
Bar-Ilan University
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2019
MA summa cum laude, Political Science and Public Policy
Reichman University
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2015
BA, Government, Diplomacy and Strategy
Reichman University
Specializing in public policy and political marketing.
Thesis
Extreme and Divided, Moderate and Cohesive? Nicheness and Party Cohesion in Multiparty Parliaments
Languages
- HebrewNative
- EnglishFull proficiency
- SpanishAdvanced
Tools
- Stata
- SPSS
- Excel
- Canva
- Monday
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini