Dr. Nadav Shifman Berman is a Research Fellow at the Weisfeld Family Maayan Centre for Jewish Philosophy and Sustainability, Bar-Ilan University and Adjunct Lecturer at Yeshiva University. His Maayan Centre project explores the idea of ‘Fear of Heaven (yirat shammayim) as Environmental Virtue’.

https://biu.academia.edu/NadavSBerman 

Jonathan Alon (Aikhenbaum) holds a PhD from the Bar Ilan University department of Political sciences. He is a fellow at the Weisfeld Family Foundation Ma'ayan Center for Jewish Philosophy and Sustainability at Bar-Ilan University. Jonathan associates research in philosophy with advocacy and activism, and has been the leading voice of Greenpeace in Israel in the last decade. 
His research focuses on philosophy of property and sustainability, the boundaries of ecological interpretation of Mistvot and the ecological meaning of the book of Genesis.

Rabbi Dr. Aharon Ariel Lavi is the Managing Director of the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center, working to make religion part of the solution to global challenges. Founder of the MAKOM and Hakhel networks of intentional communities (both won the Jerusalem Unity Prize, awarded by the President of Israel). His PhD research explores the idea migration between the U.S. and Israel, and his postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and Bar Ilan University’s Ma’ayan Institute focused on Jewishly informed community building.

Ghila Amati holds a PhD from the University of Oxford’s Department of Theology and Religion. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weisfeld Family Foundation Ma'ayan Center for Jewish Philosophy and Sustainability at Bar-Ilan University. She is also the recipient of the Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship from the Leo Baeck Institute.

Previously, she held fellowships at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, as part of the Judaism and Human Rights Program, and at Shalem College as an Arthur Fried Fellow.

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Mois Navon is a computer engineer, a moral philosopher and an orthodox rabbi.  He holds a B.Sc. (Engr., UCLA), M.A. & Ph.D. (Jewish Phil., BIU), rabbinic ordination (Mercaz Harav), and Postdoc in the Jewish Phil. (BIU). His dissertation – The Moral Status of Artificial Intelligence – addresses ethical questions in AI. In this vein, he teaches a course on “Ethics in Artificial Intelligence” at BGU and is National Advisor to the Ministry of Innovation, Science & Tech. on AI Policy and Regulation.

Einat Kramer is a doctoral fellow at the Ma’ayan Center for Jewish Philosophy and Sustainability at Bar-Ilan University and a doctoral candidate (ABD) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research explores the intersection of religion, society, and ecology, with a focus on contemporary Jewish environmental initiatives inspired by the Shemitah tradition. In addition to her academic work, she is an environmental activist who integrates scholarly inquiry with field-based action.