Toward a Thin Constitution Anchoring Israeli Governance
- A Thin Constitution
- The Research Group
- Retired Justice Elyakim Rubinstein
- Prof. Yedidia Stern
- Prof. Ariel Bendor
- Dr. Elad Gil
- Prof. Keren Weinshall-Margel
- Retired Judge Raanan Giladi
- Dr. Haim Zicherman
- Prof. Yaffa Zilbershats
- Dr. Alona Hagay-Frey
- Prof. Reuven Y. Hazan
- Eyal Yinon
- Dr. Yehuda Yifrah
- Dr. Shuki Friedman
- Adv. Udit Corinaldi-Sirkis
- The Thin Constitution Council (Advisory Committee)
- Prof. Jennifer Oser
- Dr. Julia Elad-Strenger
- Dr. Yossi Beilin
- Anat Brodsky
- Prof. Yehonatan Givati
- Dr. Micah Goodman
- Mohammad Darawshe
- Prof. Moshe Halbertal
- Prof. Mohammed Wattad
- Dr. Nechumi Yaffe
- Prof. Shahar Lifshitz
- Adv. Dr. Moran Nagid
- Adv. Raz Nizri
- Prof. Iddo Porat
- Rabbi Adv. Yehoshua Pfeffer
- Tehila Friedman
- Adv. Erez Kaminitz
- Prof. Ron Shapira
- Adv. Yaniv Cohen
- Publications
- Events
Professor in the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, and a former Dean. Founder of the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan, and founded and heads the Israeli Congress for Judaism and Democracy. In the past he was a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) and one of the leaders of IDI’s Human Rights and Judaism program; he also participated in its Constitution by Consent project. He served as a visiting professor of law at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Siena in Tuscany, Yeshiva University and Emory University in Atlanta. His areas of specialization are contract law, family and inheritance law, and building consensus in a Jewish and democratic state. Prof. Lifshitz frequently serves as a special adviser to the Ministry of Justice.