David Barak-Gorodetsky

Dr. David Barak-Gorodetsky is the head of the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Interdisciplinary Center for the study of Antisemitism and Racism, and the director of the Ruderman Program for American-Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa. He is also a member of the academic committee of the newly established Freeze Center for shared society, and teaches at the interfaith MA program. His research interests include Jewish-American history and religious thought, Israel and World Jewry relations, Antisemitism and Political Theology, and the intersection of Antisemitism, technology and AI.

Born and raised in Israel, David was formerly a technology expert in the Israeli Air Force and a VP at an Israeli startup company in NY. In recent years, he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a Shalom Hartman and JPPI Fellow. He recently taught about Israel in Jindal Global University in India, and is a board member of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS), and was the recent chair of its conference in Haifa. He writes frequently to various media outlets and is an acknowledged public speaker.