Yael Bar-Lev has been working for approximately 20 years on diverse aspects of education, including cognitive aspects of learning, education for personal autonomy in a democratic society, education and television, and the development of innovative pedagogies. Over the years she has addressed learning and theoretical development, developed and taught in-service courses, and supervised teachers and media personnel in their educational work.
In recent years Yael has worked on the relationship between education and culture, especially the challenges involved in education in the multicultural Israeli context. In addition, she is currently conducting research on secular-Jewish education in Israel.
Yael has a master’s degree and is working towards a doctorate in education at Tel Aviv University. She is a graduate of the School for Educational Leadership.

Prof. Cohen is chair of the Department of Education at the Hebrew University's School of Education, and serves as senior faculty member at its Melton Centre for Jewish Education. 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.

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).

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. Ido Hevroni is a scholar of rabbinic literature and a member of the faculty of the Mandel IDF Educational Leadership Development Program. His work focuses on making classical Jewish literature relevant to contemporary thought. In addition to his work at the Mandel Leadership Institute, Ido is the academic director of "Rimon", a program for high school students run by the Shalem Center, and a lecturer in literature at Herzog College.
Ido speaks in various forums and publishes wide-ranging articles on aspects of literature and Judaism, including in Azure, Ynet, and nrg.

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.

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 was previously the Chief Psychologist of the Ministry of Education and the director of the Educational Psychology Services for the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. 
Areas of expertise include system-wide psychological processes, psychological intervention in emergency and crisis situations, leading changes in systemsand  strategic planning.

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 Mandel Foundation, 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 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.

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.