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.