The Institute cultivates the next generation of researchers who will advance Rabbi Sacks’s intellectual legacy in Israel and beyond. By recruiting outstanding doctoral and masters level students, the Institute ensures that Rabbi Sacks’s ideas, perspectives, and concerns are integrated into academic and intellectual discourse in Israel and extended across the global academy.

In practice, this mission takes shape through the production of rigorous academic publications and the creation of a scholarly network of Israeli academics and intellectuals that reflects the Institute’s broader objectives.

Doctoral fellowships are awarded on topics central to Rabbi Sacks’s concerns. Fellows publish academic work, disseminate their findings, and contribute to building an intellectual community that ensures Rabbi Sacks’s thought receives the recognition and engagement it deserves.

Incoming Fellows 2025-26: