Yaron Ezrahi

Yaron Ezrahi (born 1940) is an Israeli political theorist and an Emeritus professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem. Ezrahi is known for his work on the relations between modern science and the rise of the modern liberal democratic state and the political uses of scientific knowledge and authority. His latest work focuses on the deterioration of the Enlightenment version of the partnership between science, technology and democracy and the changing parameters of postmodern imaginaries and performances of the democratic order. His books have been translated into German and Chinese.

Ezrahi was born in 1940 in Tel Aviv. His father Yariv was a musician, music teacher and critic. His mother Hanna Diesenhaus was a curator and librarian in the early years of the Tel-Aviv Museum. He graduated from Tichon Hadash high school in Tel-Aviv in 1958, completed army service in 1960, graduated in political science and philosophy at the Hebrew University in 1964, received his master's degree in political science at the Hebrew University in 1966 and PhD in political science at Harvard University in 1972.

As a doctoral student, Ezrahi served as an adviser on science policy at the White House in 1970, the OECD (1969-1970) and upon returning from his studies to Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Israel (1973-1983). Ezrahi served also as a senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (1993-2003). In this capacity he cofounded The Seventh Eye, Israel’s magazine for press criticism charged with guarding professional journalistic standards. As a Senior Fellow at the IDI, Ezrahi joined a small committee of scholars headed by the former chief justice Meir Shamgar which wrote the most recent draft of a constitution for Israel.

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