Moshe Koppel

Chairman of the Kohelet Policy Forum

Moshe Koppel is founding chairman of the Kohelet Policy Forum, which is widely regarded as Israel’s most influential pro-Zionist, pro-liberty think tank. Koppel is professor emeritus of computer science at Bar-Ilan University and the author of over 100 articles in leading academic journals and proceedings in mathematics, computer science, linguistics, law, economics, political science and other disciplines. He is the founding director of Dicta, a research institute devoted to developing tools for computational analysis of Hebrew texts, with special focus on biblical and religious works.

Koppel is also the author of three books on Jewish thought, most recently Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures, published by Koren.