Founder and Head of the JSC

Assaf has served as the academic director of JSC since its foundation. Today, he heads the Center. His areas of expertise include nationalism and nation states, political philosophy, and Jewish political thought. Asaf has taught in Bar Ilan University and Herzog College, and is currently a lecturer on political philosophy at Shalem College. Since the summer of 2015, he is chairman of the Ministry of Education’s Committee for Citizenship Studies.