page_title: Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
section_title: Notable faculty
hierarchical_section_title: Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya / Notable faculty
caption_attribution_description: English: Shavit Matias
context_page_description: The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya is a private research college in Herzliya, Israel. It was founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman, envisioned and inspired by the model of the Ivy League. It is located in the city of Herzliya, in the Tel Aviv District, and is classified as an independent unbudgeted university. It grants undergraduate degrees, post-graduate degrees, and PhD degrees. It is a non-profit and receives no Israeli government funding.
  IDC Herzliya has 8,000 students enrolled for undergraduate and graduate degrees, including 2,000 international students from 86 countries.
  In 2014, IDC law graduates achieved the highest passing rate at the national bar examination of all Israeli academic institutions. Moreover, IDC Herzliya ranked first of 66 Israeli academic institutions in terms of student satisfaction for four consecutive years. In addition, IDC Herzliya has been the only academic institution in the world that has won the international Jean Pictet International Humanitarian Law competition, organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross, in consecutive years, winning it twice, in 2010 and 2011.
context_section_description: Alex Mintz, Former dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy
  Zvi Eckstein, dean of the Tiomkin School of Economics and the Arison School of Business, previously served as Deputy Governor Bank of Israel and as a lecturer in leading U.S. universities
  Aharon Barak, former President of the Israeli Supreme Court
  Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Security
  Tal Ben-Shahar, author and lecturer on positive psychology
  Boaz Ganor, dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Executive Director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism [ICT]
  Yossi Maaravi, author and lecturer on negotiation, decision making and creativity
  Shavit Matias, former Deputy Attorney General of Israel
  Amnon Rubinstein, former Israeli Minister of communications and education
  Shaul Shay, military historian
  Bruce Hoffman, political analyst
  Ely Karmon, political scientist
  Itzhak Levanon, diplomat, Israel's ambassador to Egypt from 2009 to 2011
  Shaul Mishal, political scientist
  Karine Nahon, information scientist
  Ron Prosor, Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2011 to 2015 and Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and academic
  Amichai Magen, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress (WJC)
  Daniel Byman, professor and Senior Associate Dean at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service
  Dennis Ross, American diplomat and author
  Emmanuel Navon, political scientist and foreign policy expert
  Amnon Sella, political scientist
  Tal Ben-Shahar, lecturer at Harvard University
  Michael C. Dorf, lecturer at Cornell Law School
caption: Shavit Matias
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