Professor Nir Kedar is the President of Sapir College. Previously he served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Sapir, a professor of law and history at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law and as the Dean of Sapir Law School, which under his leadership became one of the best law schools in the country. After graduating from Tel-Aviv University (history and law) magna cum laude, he clerked for the then President of Israel’s Supreme Court, Professor Aharon Barak, and received his S.J.D. from Harvard, where he was an ISEF and Fulbright fellow. Professor Kedar’s main fields of interest are Israeli history, modern legal history, legal and political theory and comparative law. He has published five books and numerous articles in these fields. His first book, Mamlakhtiyut: David Ben-Gurion’s Civic Thought, published in 2009 in Hebrew, won the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) Shapiro Prize for Best Book on Israel for 2009. His most recent books are Law and Identity in Israel: A Century of Debate (Cambridge University Press 2019), and David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy (Indiana University Press 2021). Prof. Kedar is also the Chair of ISEF (The Israel Scholarship Education Foundation) Board of Directors.