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Ethics of Modern War Tikvah Advanced Institutes Fall 2013

Tikvah Fellows (2013-14)

Alan Goldsmith

Alan Goldsmith is a national security professional with over six years of experience in foreign policy, Congress, policymaking, oversight, and communications. He served on the staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2007 to 2013, covering the Middle East and international organizations. Alan previously served as senior writer for Americans for a Strong Defense, a non- profit campaign opposing Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. Alan holds an M.A. in Strategic Security Studies from National Defense University and a B.A. in Political Science from Yeshiva University. He is a member of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, and the Republican Jewish Coalition.

Elana Stein Hain

Elana Stein Hain has served as the Community Scholar at Lincoln Square Synagogue for the past five years, and she is a Ph.D. candidate in Religion at Columbia University. Elana is currently a faculty member at NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, where she teaches courses as part of a new minor on Religious Life and Leadership.

Simone Hartmann

Simone Dinah Hartmann was born and raised in Vienna, Austria and holds an M.Sc. in Information Technology and Politics from the Vienna University of Technology. She served in the Austrian student parliament where she became engaged against the Austrian far right and anti-Semitism. During the second intifada, she initiated pro- events throughout German-speaking countries. In response to Iran’s nuclear program she started the European-wide coalition “Stop the Bomb,” and serves as its spokesperson and director in Austria. Hartmann has lectured and written extensively on matters related to the security of Israel, anti-Semitism and the Iranian threat in the German-speaking and international press, and is co-publisher of two anthologies on Iran and its European supporters.

Kate Havard

Kate Havard works as a reporter and junior editor at The Weekly Standard. She writes on congressional and national politics for the magazine’s print edition and blog, and in 2012 covered the Ohio Senate Race and the Democratic National Convention. Ms. Havard also covered Maryland politics for . She graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Maryland.

Elad Popovich

Elad Popovich is the Executive Director of the Liberal Democracies Facing Asymmetric Conflicts project (LD-AC), at the University of Haifa. Previously, Elad served as the Secretary General and an executive committee member of the Association of Civil-Military Scholars in Israel (2012-2013). Elad is an attorney at law and serves on the Israel Bar Association’s Military and Security National Committee. He is an associate researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), and an instructor in the Israeli military. Elad is currently pursuing doctoral studies in at the University of Haifa and holds an M.A. in political science from , and an LL.B. and B.A. from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya IDC. His professional specializations are: laws of war and international humanitarian law (in the scope of asymmetric conflicts), counter-terrorism and COIN, cyber threats, psychological warfare, psycho-strategy, Palestinian terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, and global jihad.

Yishai Schwartz

Yishai Schwartz is currently a senior at Yale University majoring in philosophy and religious studies. A native of Riverdale, New York, Yishai studied for a year at the Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shevut, Israel before entering Yale College. Yishai has worked as a research assistant for Yale Law School Professor Kate Stith, for whom he helped draft a study of Washington State's sentencing policies and prepare a federal law case-book for publication. At Yale, Yishai is the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Philosophy Review, and a staff columnist for the Yale Daily News. He has also been Speaker of the Yale Political Union, a Vice President of the Yale Friends of Israel, and a founding editor of Shibboleth, Yale's undergraduate journal of Jewish thought.

Erez Tadmor

Erez Tadmor the Political Editor of Mida, an Israeli web magazine, and the co-founder and former policy division head of the Im Tirtzu movement. Erez has a B.A. in political science and the multidisciplinary program from the Hebrew University, and is currently studying for an M.A. in political media at Bar Ilan University. He has held publicity and journalism posts at , , and Yediot Yerushalayim.

Jonathan Yudelman

Jonathan Yudelman grew up in Canada, where he studied philosophy and classics at McGill University before determining to move to Israel in 2001. Following service in the IDF, he attended the Hebrew University of , completing a B.A. in Jewish Thought and an M.A. in philosophy, and working as a teaching assistant. He received the Philosophy Department’s annual award for academic achievement, and the M.A. prize from the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv. He has a long-standing relationship with the Shalem Center in Jerusalem where he worked for a number of years, and has published work in Azure, the LA Review of Books, , and others. His current intellectual interests include the 20th century intersection of the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history, Zionist thought, Jewish political theology, and understanding the amorphous crisis of the West.

Tikvah Institutes Participants

Joanna Baron

Joanna Baron recently completed a clerkship for Justices David Watt and Paul Rouleau of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, in Toronto, Canada. She will spend the coming year as a Fox Scholar at the Inns of Court and Middle Temple in London. Upon her return to Canada, Ms. Baron intends to practice criminal law. She graduated in 2012 from McGill University's Faculty of Law and earned a M.A. in Classics from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where she studied ancient Greek philosophy and literature. She participated in the 2012 Tikvah Israel Fellowship in Zionist Thought at Ein Prat Academy for Leadership.

Eran Ben-Ari

Eran Ben-Ari is a lawyer in the Civil Division of Israel’s Attorney General’s Office, where he represents various government bodies in civil cases before the Supreme Court, including tort claims brought by Palestinians who argue that they have been injured during Israel’s military campaigns. He also serves as a Military Advocate in the Israeli Defense Forces Reserves, where he investigates Israeli soldiers for alleged violations and reviews complaints filed by human rights organizations. Previously, Mr. Ben-Ari served as the Secretary of Justice on the Edmund Levy Committee, which in 2012 published the Report on the Legal Status of Building in Judea and Samaria. In 2011, he was elected to the National Council of the Israeli Bar Association. In addition to law and politics, he is interested in Jewish archeology, geography, and history, particularly the ancient Greek and Roman periods.

Eleazar Berman

Eleazar Berman is breaking news editor of the Times of Israel, where he oversees reporting on Israeli politics and security issues. Previously, Mr. Berman worked in the trade and investment department of the British Embassy to the United States, acted as research manager for the foreign policy department of the American Enterprise Institute, and spent several months advising the Council of Ministers of the Kurdish Regional Government on economic issues. He earned a M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, where he wrote a thesis on the ’ innovations in response to hybrid threats in the 21st century. Mr. Berman was a platoon commander in the IDF and plans to enter the Israeli national security community.

Azgad Gold

Azgad Gold is a practicing psychiatrist who writes widely on the intersection of psychiatry with medicine, ethics, and halakha. He earned his M.D. from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. Dr. Gold also studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and Siach Yeshiva. Prior to establishing a private psychiatric practice in 2012, he spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry of Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry. He is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and book chapters; in 2011 he published The School of Shammai: Personality, Philosophy, and Halakha. His second book, On Miracles and Nature: A Critical Philosophic Analysis of Halakhic Literature, is forthcoming from Bar Ilan University Press.

Aaron Kaplowitz

Aaron Kaplowitz is director of communications at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C., where he works closely with Ambassador and oversees the Embassy’s press operations and media strategy. He is also a freelance editor for the Jewish Lives series of Yale University Press and is currently working on a manuscript about Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. He has published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe Magazine, USA Today, and The New Republic. Raised in New Jersey, Mr. Kaplowitz volunteered in a combat unit for the Israel Defense Forces following the onset of the Second Lebanon War. He earned a B.S. in journalism, magna cum laude, from Boston University’s College of Communication in 2006.

Emmanuel Navon

Emmanuel Navon is the director of the Political Science and Communication Department at the Jerusalem Orthodox College, lecturer in International Relations at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center-Herzliya, a senior fellow of the Kohelet Policy Forum, and an analyst and commentator for I24News, a trilingual (English, Arabic, and French) Israeli cable TV network. He also has experience promoting Israeli business interests in the and sub-Saharan Africa. He was elected to ’s Central Committee in 2012. Born and raised in , Dr. Navon moved to Israel in 1993 and earned his Ph.D. in International Relations in 2000 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he wrote a dissertation on Israel’s foreign policy between 1973 and 1993. Author of numerous articles, policy papers, book chapters, and editorials, Dr. Navon has also published two books, From Israel, with Hope: Why and How Israel will Continue to Thrive (Balfour Books) and A Plight among the Nations: Israel’s Foreign Policy between Nationalism and Realism (VDM Verlag).

Simcha Rothman

Simcha Rothman is an attorney and research manager for the Movement for Governability and Democracy (MGD), in which capacity he investigates the complex relations between appointed and elected officials; he represents MGD in appeals filed before the Israeli Supreme Court. He worked with Ze’ev Dasberg and the MISHLAT Institute to advocate against the release of terrorists as part of the Israeli government’s exchange for Gilad Shalit, and he has filed lawsuits against terrorists on behalf of their victims. Mr. Rothman recently completed a L.L.M. in Public Law in the joint program between Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University. He earned his L.L.B. from Bar Ilan University, studied in Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh, and served as a chaplain in the Combat Engineering Corps of the Israel Defense Forces.

Yahli Shereshevsky

Yahli Shereshevsky is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned a L.L.B. in 2008 and where he is a tutor in Public International Law. He has a particular interest in the application of international law to asymmetric warfare. In 2008-9, Mr. Shereshevsky clerked for Eliezer Rivlin, Deputy Chief Justice of the . In the summer of 2012 he was a preceptor in the Tikvah Summer Institute on the Jewish State: Democracy, Freedom, and Virtue. Before enrolling in in Hebrew University Mr. Shereshevsky served for three years as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces.

Mark Silinsky

Mark Silinsky is a senior analyst in the Terrorism and Threat Analysis Branch of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Center, where he specializes in militant Islam and insurgency in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. He is also a Ph.D. candidate, focusing on counterinsurgency and economic development, at Tulane University’s Payson School of International Development. Mr. Silinsky has more than 30 years of experience working in defense intelligence. He is a graduate of the Naval War College, the National Defense University, and the National Intelligence University. He also earned an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, under the supervision of Sir Michael Howard, where he wrote a thesis on U.S. policy toward South Africa between 1960 and 1970. Mr. Silinsky’s book, Taliban! Afghanistan’s Most Lethal Insurgent Group, is forthcoming from Praeger Press.