Dr. Itay Cohen is a researcher and entrepreneur in the field of agricultural sciences. He is a guest contributor to the Forum for Regional Thinking at the Van Leer Institute.

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 Jerusalem. Contact: [email protected]

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 the Hebrew University, where he also wrote his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Hillel Cohen and Prof. Israel Gershoni (Tel Aviv University). His […]

Yonatan Kanonich is the head of Research at Yesh Din and author of Displaced Communities, Forgotten People

Yuval Avraham is a documentary filmmaker and journalist for +972 Magazine including its Hebrew edition, and The Guardian. His first film, No Other Land, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Yuval is a member of the Forum for Regional Thinking and the creator of the web series Shasha for the Ofek Project, which takes […]

The Forum for Regional Thinking was established to bring about a change in the way the Israeli public perceives the Middle East and Israel’s place within it

Aviv Tatarsky is a researcher at the “Ir Amim” organization, which focuses on Jerusalem within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His work provides him with behind-the-scenes insights into Israeli policies in Jerusalem and how the capital of the Jewish state grapples with the reality of being a binational city. Much of his understanding stems […]

Adam al-Maghrebi is a Moroccan analyst and educator, specializing in intercultural and interreligious relations.

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 the Hebrew University, where he also wrote his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Hillel Cohen and Prof. Israel Gershoni (Tel Aviv University). His […]