Moshe Halbertal

Moshe Halbertal
Moshe Halbertal in 2009.
Born	Moshe Halbertal 1958  Uruguay
Nationality	Israeli
Occupation	philosopher, professor, writer
Website	Moshe Halbertal

Moshe Halbertal (Hebrew: משה הלברטל‎‎; born Montevideo, Uruguay, 1958), is a noted Israeli philosopher, professor, and writer, and a noted expert on Maimonides. He is co-author of the Israeli Army Code of Ethics.

Born in Uruguay, he made aliyah to Israel. He is a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University, and a faculty member at the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. From 1988-92 he was a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (1988–92). Halbertal has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and New York University Law School. He received his B.A. in Jewish Thought and Philosophy from Hebrew University, cum laude, in 1984, and his PhD from Hebrew University in 1989.

Halbertal was reared in Israel in a modern Orthodox family. His father was a Holocaust survivor from Łańcut, Galicia (Central-Eastern Europe), his mother an Israeli who had come to Uruguay to teach Hebrew.

He received the Rothschild Foundation's Bruno Award and the Goren Goldstein Award for the "Best Book in Jewish Thought" in the years 1997-2000. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Jewish Review of Books.