Ms. Bar-Lev holds a B.A in Biology and an M.A in Computers and Communication in Education. Ms. Bar-Lev is co-director of the Visions of Jewish Education Unit. She previosuly worked as content consultant for the "Hop!" TV channel. Her areas of expertise include the development and application of innovative pedagogies in active learning environments, the development and application of training programs for teachers and content management of television projects for children. She is also a graduate of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership.

Dr. Deitcher is a faculty member at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University and its previous director. He was formerly director of the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows Program at the Mandel Leadership Institute, a program of which he is also a graduate. Dr. Deitcher holds a doctorate in Jewish Education from Yeshiva University in New York and was ordained at the Chief Rabbinate of Montreal. Dr. Deitcher has written extensively on issues of Bible education and philosophy for children and continues to lecture on these topics around the world.

Dr. Glaser is a member of faculty at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University. Holding a doctorate in philosophy, her main areas of research include personal identity and group membership, pluralism, critical thinking, children's philosophical thinking and the connection between philosophical inquiry and the teaching of Bible. Dr Glaser currently sits on the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children and on the editorial boards of the journals Analytic Teaching and Thinking. She has published widely in the areas of critical thinking, philosophy for children, and conceptions of self and community. Dr Glaser is a graduate of the Jerusalem Fellows program.

Dr. Eli Gottlieb holds degrees in Philosophy and Developmental Psychology from Cambridge and a doctorate in the Psychology of Education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to joining the faculty in 2004, Eli served for three years as a visiting professor in Cognitive Studies in Education at the University of Washington. His research examines the relations between cognition, identity and education. Recent publications include "The development of religious thinking" (Religious Education, 2006) and "Learning how to believe: Epistemic development in cultural context" (Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2007).

Moshe Halbertal is a Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University and a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1989, and from 1988-1992 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He has served as a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School at University of Pennsylvania Law School and at NYU Law School. 

Prof. Halbertal is the author of the books “Idolatry” (co authored with Avishai Margalit) and “People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority”, both published by Harvard University Press. He has also authored “Interpretative Revolutions in the Making”, and “Between Torah and Wisdom: R. Menachem ha-Meiri and The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence”, both published in Hebrew by Magnes Press. His last book published in Hebrew is “Concealment and Revelation: The Secret and its Boundaries in Medieval Jewish Thought” (Yeriot, 2001). Moshe Halbertal is the recipient of the Bruno Award of the Rothschild foundation, and the Goren Goldstein award for the best book in Jewish Thought in the years 1997-2000.

Ms. Hochstein is a member of the founding group of Mandel Foundation's endeavors in Israel, including the Mandel Leadership Institute. A policy-planner by training, she established the Institute's policy studies department. Ms. Hochstein has contributed to major policy-analytic projects, including the West Bank Database Project, and the Commission on Jewish Education in North America. She was trained in public policy at the New School for Social Research (M.A. degree), MIT (as Humphrey Fellow) and at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Marom heads the Visions of Jewish Education Unit at the Mandel Leadership Institute. He is co-author of the book Dialogue From the Heart of Confusion(Keter Books,Mandel Foundation) [Hebrew], and co-editor of Visions of Jewish Education (Cambridge University Press: 2003). He is a faculty member at the Mandel Leadership Institute, where he has developed a unique training program for educational leaders- “Philosophical-Educational Facilitation”. He has published articles in the history and philosophy of Jewish and Zionist education in Israel and America.

Yonathan Mizrachi (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992), an anthropologist and information specialist, is a graduate of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership. During his MLI fellowship, Dr. Mizrachi specialized in curriculum development for adult education and application of Information Technology to education. In the past, Dr. Mizrachi taught at the University of Haifa, headed the Applied Anthropology program at the Emek Yezreel Academic College, and  has consulted for the Israeli Ministries of Education and Finance and the National Committee for Information Society Technology. Dr. Mizrachi writes and teaches about evolutionary thought and social theory,  knowledge management and intellectual capital in modern organizations, the history of IT, and information theory of cyberspace. He has received teaching awards from both Harvard and Haifa universities.

Adi Nir Sagi is a senior psychologist and holds a Masters degree in public administration. After three years of work as program director at the Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev, Adi has joined the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem. Adi holds a Master degree in Educational Psychology from the Hebrew University and is a graduate of the Master in Public Administration Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ("Wexner" Fellow). She is also studying towards a Ph.D. degree in the department of education at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev and teaches in the department’s M.A. track for educational psychology.

Adi has vast management experience: Adi was previously the Chief Psychologist of the Ministry of Education and the director of the Educational Psychology Services for the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.  She was also i/C of the mental emergency services and crisis intervention teams for the Ministry’s Jerusalem district. For the Ministry of Educational HQ, Adi was responsible at the national level for development and implementation of policy and for actual intervention in emergency and crisis situations.

Areas of expertise include system-wide psychological processes, leading changes in systems, mapping and creating strategic plans. Adi also works in the field of development and coaching of managers and teams as part of the creation of strategic organizational plans.

Prof. Nisan is Head of Academic Staff  of the Mandel Leadership Institute. He was formerly Director of the School for Educational Leadership and of the "Mandel Fellowship for Educational Researchers" Program. Prof. Nisan is a Developmental Psychologist who served as Dean of the School of Education at the Hebrew University and as a member of the Council for Higher Education. His areas of research, on which he has written extensively, include moral development and behavior and human motivation.

Pierre Kletz received his doctorate from HEC School of Management-Paris. He holds accreditation to supervise research (Habilitation diriger des recherches) from the Sorbonne. He has held the position of Academic Director of the Eastern and Central Europe Centre of HEC and, later on, was the Special Academic Advisor of the Director General of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).

Before joining the faculty of the Mandel Leadership Institute, he was an Associate Professor at the University Francois Rabelais (France) where he served as founding director of the Masters of Public Management program.  Pierre has published numerous articles about organizational theory in major research journals. He has received the Award for Excellence in 2002 for an "outstanding contribution" to the Journal of Management Development.

Richard Juran joined the Mandel Leadership Institute after serving as educational director and executive director of JCC Association's Israel Office.  Prior to that, he was educational coordinator of the Jerusalem Fellows, Director of Community Affairs at the American Zionist Youth Foundation in New York, Director of the Hadassah Youth Center and Young Judaea Programs in Israel, and Educational Coordinator and teacher at the Institute for Diaspora Youth Leaders.  He received his M.A. in Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, specializing in Jewish education for the Diaspora. 

Mr. Rothstein is the principal of "Sha'ar Ha'Negev" School. He holds an M.A. in Jewish thought from the Jewish Theological Seminary and has completed an administrator's course for graduates at Ben-Gurion University. At the Mandel School for Educational Leadership, Mr. Rothstein's main role is to participate in tutoring sessions with study groups.

Dr. Motti Shalem holds a B.A. in psychology and a Ph.D. in Jewish History from Bar-Ilan University. His doctoral thesis focused on the formation of the IDF’s moral codex and was later published in his book, "An Army’s Search for Meaning" (Hebrew). Motti served in the IDF’s Education Corps for twenty years and retired from active service ranking as Lieutenant-Colonel. Motti is a graduate of the first cohort of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership (MSEL).  Prior to joining  the faculty of the Mandel leadership Institute, Motti  served as the director of Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies.

Neta Sher-Hadar holds a doctorate in Political Science from the Hebrew University. Her PhD dissertation - "From Vision to Reality: A Re-acquaintance with the Concept 'Implementation'"- addressed the processes of policy implementation Her research interests include policy and reform failures in public and government systems. At the Mandel Leadership Institute she teaches policy studies and is in charge of the individual curriculum of MLI fellows. In addition, she works with fellows on preparing policy papers and projects.