Yachin Research Center

The Center for National Strategy Research

About the Center

The Yachin Center is an applied research center focusing on advancing policies rooted in Jewish values and Jewish identity among government authorities and the Israeli public.

The center carries out intensive research, analyzes the structure of government institutions, and develops databases.

Honest Research. Changing Policy. Making an Impact.

The center produces research reports, position papers, and analysis by researchers and professionals in the fields of Jewish and national identity.
The center advances policy by carrying out intensive values-based research, analyzing the structure of government institutions and developing databases.
The center formulates policy recommendations and advances them among the public and decision makers.
The center works together with government authorities in the State of Israel to promote the character of Israel as a Jewish State.

Focus Areas

Legal

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Education

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Equality

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Religion and State

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Center Leadership

Oren Henig

Director of Religion and State Department

Yuval Tzur

Director of Education Department

Rav Yair Kreitman

Director of Legal and Beit Din Department

Rav Yaakov Yakir

Director of Legal and Beit Din Department

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Board and Steering Committee

Attorney Yitzhack Meron

xpert in civil and commercial litigation. Former

head of the Disciplinary Committee of the Israeli Bar Association. Activist on public policy issues related to fundamental aspects of the State of Israel.

Meir Ben Shabat

National Security Advisor and Former Chairman of the National Security Council. Head of the Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy in Jerusalem.

Prof. Eliav Shochetman

xpert on Jewish Law, recipient of the Rav Kook Prize for Jewish Thought and the Emet Prize.

Prof. Nahum Rakover

Expert on Jewish Law. Recipient of the Israeli Prize for Jewish Thought and the Yakir Yerushalayim prize. Former Deputy Attorney General and publisher of over 30 books.

Rav Yitzhak Levi

Former Member of Knesset and Minister, current head of the Steering Committee of the Hemdat Hadarom Academic College of Education.

Rav Dr. Ratzon Arusi

Rabbi of the city of Kiryat Ono and member of the Chief Rabbinical Council of Israel.

Prof. Yehuda Skornik

Emeritus Professor in Medicine at Tel Aviv University.

Attorney Eldad Rabinovich

Attorney in the fields of constitutional law and land rights.

Dr. Chaim Cohen

Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University. Made Aliyah to Israel and worked as a geriatric social worked for many years. Publishes articles in English.

Attorney Yiska Bina

Completed a B.A. in political science and a B.L.L. in law. Partner at the Rothman-Lev-Bina Firm. Expert on governance and society, serves as the Head of Research at the Movement for Governance and Democracy. Publishes and speak widely to the media.

Dr. Meir Seidler

Senior Lecturer and researcher in Jewish Thought at Ariel University and Bar-Ilan University.

Rav Chaim Fogel

director of the Orot College, Chairman of the Center for the Rambam’s Legacy, founder of the Noam and Tzviya Institutes.

Shai Alon, CPA

Head of the Beit El Local Council, Deputy Chairman of the Forum for Advancing the Periphery in Israel, Member of the Steering Committee at the Orot College for Education.

Rav Yehuda Glick

The first National Religious Dayan in Israel. Served as the Av Beit Din of the Rabbinical Court in Ariel, Av Beit Din of the Rabbinical. Court in Petach Tikvah, and a Rav at the Birkat Moshe Yeshiva in Maale Adumim.

Rabbanit Orit Amar

Community leader, educator, lecturer, trainer, and facilitator of workshops. Director of the Shaarei Tziyon nonprofit, and active in the Garin Torani “Kanfei Noam” in Kfar Yona.

Rav Dr. Elad Dukov

Rabbi of the Technion and Ph.D. in Mathematics with a focus on game theory.

Rav Chaim Yeruham Smotrich

Rabbi of the Beit Yatir Community in Har Hevron. Rabbi and head of the Nir Kollel in Kiryat Arba. Taught for many years at the Beit El Yeshiva and serves at the head of the Beit Moriah center in Beer Sheva.

Rav Ariel Bareli

Rabbi of the community of Beit El, Head of the Institute of Jewish Law for the Nation, Av Beit Din of the Monetary Court in the Binyamin Regional Cuncil. Served as a Rabbi at the Sderot Yeshiva, and as head of the Doresh Tov synagogue in the city.

Rav Avraham Wasserman

Rabbi of the ‘Gvurat Mordechai’ community in Givatayim. Served as a Rabbi and head of the Kollel on Halacha in Yeshivat Ramat Gan. Served as Rabbi of the Kibbutz Shluhot near Beit Shean. Wrote five books.