Professor Yaron Ezrahi, Senior Felow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute, was involved in both the Seventh Eye Journal and in the Communications and Democracy project.
Professor Ezrahi earned his doctorate in Political Science from Harvard University in 1972. He served as head of the advanced program for the History and Sociology of the Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and as Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of the Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Ezrahi was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and served as a Visiting Professor at the universities of Pennsylvania, Harvard and Duke.
Professor Ezrahi also served as consultant to a variety of institutions including The White House, The OECD, The Israel National Academy of Science, and, more recently, the Carnegie Commission on Science and Government. In the context of Israeli policy, Professor Ezrahi has been active on a number of public issues such as, the Middle East peace process, the politization of Israel’s public and private television, and the state of Israel’s system of higher education.
Winner of the 1997 National Jewish book Award, in the category of Israel and Zionism, Professor Ezrahi has written and published extensively on the impact of modern science and technology on democratic governments and the conduct of public affairs. His publications include: Israel Towards a Constitutional Democracy (With Mordechai Kremnitzer and the assistance of Margit Cohen and Eytan Alimi), The Israel Democracy Institute, 2001 (Hebrew); "Rubber Bullets, Power and Conscience in Modern Israel", Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1997; Of Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism, (Co-editor, with Everett Mendelsohn and Howard Siegal), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994; and The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy, Harvard University Press, 1990.