Prof. Adler is a professor of Sociology and Education. He was the first director of the academic board of the NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education at the School of Education of the Hebrew University, a role in which he served for about 20 years. Prof. Adler's main areas of research include education as a factor for social change and youth culture in modern society. Prof. Adler is a consultant for the Mandel Leadership Institute's Graduate Unit and is a contact person for alumni of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership. In 2006, Prof. Adler received the prestigious Israel Prize for his work and research in education. 

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 Unit. She worked as content consultant for the "Hop!" Channel on TV. 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. Bekerman teaches anthropology of education at the School of Education and at The Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a research fellow at the Truman Institute for Peace at the Hebrew University. His main interests are in the study of cultural, ethnic and national identity, including identity processes and negotiation during intercultural encounters and in formal/informal learning contexts. Since 1999 he has been conducting, with the support of the Ford, Spencer and Bernard Van Leer Foundations, a long term ethnographic research project in the integrated/bilingual Palestinian-Jewish schools in Israel. Dr. Bekerman is also involved in the study of identity construction and development in educational computer-mediated environments.

Dr. Ben-Dor has a doctorate in Jewish thought from the Hebrew University. He has served as a lawyer for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and as lecturer at the Elul Center for Jewish Learning. He is one of the founders of the Yesodot Center for the Study of Torah and Democracy. His area of interest lies in the interactions between Jewish thought and western philosophy and literature.

Prof. Cohen is senior lecturer at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University. He holds a doctorate in Jewish thought and Education and his main research areas include philosophy of Jewish education and curriculum development. Prof. Cohen is a graduate of the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows program.

Abi Dauber-Sterne is the Director of the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows program at the Mandel Leadership Institute. Before moving to Israel in 2007, she worked as the founding director of Limmud NY, an annual festival of Jewish learning and culture. She also served as a planner for UJA-Federation of NY's Caring Commission, focused on issues relating to children and youth at risk, as well as pastoral care and chaplaincy. Abi holds an MA in Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and was a fellow in the Muehlstein Institute for Jewish Professional Leadership.

Prof. Dery is founder and chair of Delta Leadership, Ltd. He teaches public policy at the Hebrew University, where he served as founding dean of the School of Public Policy, and Chair of the Political Science Department. Prof. Dery also served as Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of the Deputy-Prime Minister, and as the Chief Scientist for the Ministry of Interior and for the Civil Service Commission. He is the author of numerous books, monographs, scientific articles, and policy papers in public policy, public administration, and local governance.

Ms. Florsheim holds an M.A. in History from the Hebrew University. She served as director of the Center for Teaching of Jewish Studies at the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University for five years. She taught high school history and trains teachers at the Kerem Teacher Training Institute. At the Mandel School for Educational Leadership, Ms. Florsheim is responsible for the internship programs and placement of the second year Fellows.

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 Mandel 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. 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).

Ms. Hochstein is President of the Mandel Foundation Israel. She 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 a Humphrey Fellow) and at the University of Michigan.

Mr. Katzman is a journalist for the daily newspaper Ha'aretz, and is co-coordinator of the seminar on contemporary Israeli culture at the Mandel Leadership Institute. He also hosts a radio talk show on Israel radio, teaches journalism at the Hebrew University and has edited numerous books.

Dr. Marom heads the Visions Unit at the Mandel Leadership Institute. He is co-author of the book Dialogue From the Heart of Confusion(Keter Books amp; 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.

Prof. Nisan is Head of Academic Staff  of the Mandel Leadership Institute. He was formerly Director of the Mandel 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.

Dr. Motti Shalem is the Director of the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) Educational Leadership Development Program since August 2007. Motti 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. For the past thirteen years, Motti has served as the director of Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies.

Dr. Sher-Hadar holds a doctorate in Political Science from the Hebrew University. Her PhD dissertation addressed the processes of policy implementation - "From Vision to Reality: A Re-acquaintance with the Concept '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.

Dr. Shiffer established the Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev and was the Center's first director. Previously, she directed the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem where she established two leadership training programs for Senior Civil Servants and for Young Leaders from the Periphery.
Prior to joining the Mandel Leadership Institute, Dr. Shiffer held positions as Chief Scientist of the Civil Service Commission, and head of the unit in charge of the audit of the education system at the State Comptroller’s Office.
Dr. Shiffer is a lecturer in the Non-Profit Management Program at the School of Management of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and is the editor of the periodical: “Civil Society and Third Sector in Israel”.  She has published articles on civil society in Israel, on the right to education in closed communities and on education in the Haredi Community.
Dr. Shiffer volunteers as a member of the advisory committee on ‘ethics in public organizations’ at the Israel Institute for Ethics; and on the International Council of the New Israel Fund,  where she previously served as member of the Board of Directors and chairperson of the Grants Committee.