Dr. Asael Abelman teaches Jewish history and Western literature at Shalem College in Jerusalem. Dr. Abelman holds a Ph.D. in modern Jewish history. His books are: Dust and Heaven: A History of the Jewish People (2019), Of All Languages: Why do We Speak Hebrew? (2022), Ecclesiastes: A Crack of Light (2023), Length of Days – A Novel (2023).
Dr. Raphael BenLevi is the director of the Churchill Program for Statecraft and Security of the Argaman Institute at Herut – Center for Israeli Liberty and a senior fellow at The Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy. An expert in international relations and political studies, he served for seven years as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Branch (Maj. res.) as an analyst of political-military affairs and in Israeli Air Force Headquarters. He has also been a visiting researcher at Georgetown University, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Haifa and has lectured at the IDF Military Command Academy. He is the author of the book, Cultures of Counterproliferation: The Making of American and Israeli policy on the Iranian Nuclear Program (Routledge, 2023) and his research and analysis has been published in prominent academic journals and media platforms. He received his PhD from Bar-Ilan University, his MA from Reichman University and B.Sc. from the Technion.
Dr. Elad Nahshon is a historian of Israel and the Zionist movement, with a special interest in political history, nationalism, religion, and socio-political cleavages within Israeli society. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Dr. Nahshon is the author of Ne’eman: A Genius at the Nation’s Service, a biography of Israeli military commander, scientist and politician Yuval Ne’eman.
