Yoav Ben-Horin
Director of Global Jewish Education for the New Community Jewish High School
Yoav Ben-Horin is Director of Global Jewish Education at the New Community Jewish High School in West Hills, where he is developing a wide range of international programs with Jewish communities in Israel, Latin America and Europe.
Yoav moved back to California in 2005, after spending three years as Director of the Israel & Overseas Pillar of the United Jewish Communities of North America. In that capacity, he monitored developments in Israel and throughout the Jewish world on behalf of the central organization of the Jewish federation system of North America, and maintained communications and a flow of information about these matters within between the UJC and the continental network of 160 federations; he dealt there with the ongoing crisis in Argentina and Uruguay, global Anti-Semitism, Jewish poverty and community building in the former Soviet Union, the integration of Ethiopian immigrants into Israeli society, the strains on the social safety net in Israel and the challenges these poses to philanthropic action by Diaspora Jewry.
In "past lives," Yoav was the Associate Director of the Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies, a think-tank concerned with the public policy agenda of American Jewry. In that capacity he was responsible for initiating and supervising research, publications and conferences throughout North America. From 1982 to 1993, Yoav was analyst of strategic affairs with the RAND Corporation, where he wrote on issues ranging from the Arab-Israeli military balance to arms control in Europe, U.S. Air Force strategies in the Pacific, and war-fighting concepts of the U.S. Army.
Yoav was born in New York City, where his father was an Israeli diplomat at the United Nations. With his family, he traveled and lived in numerous countries around the globe. After completing his military service as a lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces, Yoav studied at Oxford and Harvard Universities. At Harvard, he also taught courses on the political development of the modern Middle East and on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Over the years, Yoav has taught, lectured and spoken frequently on campuses, radio and television, on a wide range of Middle Eastern and Israeli political, social and strategic issues, as well as on American foreign policy and American-Jewish life and Diaspora-Israel relations. He is fluent in English, Hebrew and Spanish.
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Availability: Yoav lives in California. Contact JNF Speakers Bureau for availability.
Topics:
- American Foreign Policy
- Israel in Broader Middle East Setting: Security policy, Social structure
- Political, Social and Security Issues
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