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Moshe Berent

Moshe Berent is an Israeli political scientist and retired lecturer at the Open University of Israel who writes on ancient Greece and Israeli national identity.

born 1954Research on the stateless Greek polisAdvocating an Israeli civic republicThe book A Nation Like All Nations

Born: 2 February 1954, Israel
Occupation: political scientist
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University, University of Cambridge

Moshe Berent was born in 1954 in Israel

Moshe Berent was born in Israel on February 2, 1954.

He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the Technion in Haifa. He then completed a master's degree in philosophy at Tel Aviv University under Joseph Agassi. He received a Ph.D. in comparative political history from the University of Cambridge, where Ernest Gellner was among his mentors.

Berent taught in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel and later retired. His research covers ancient Greece and Israeli national identity. He published studies on the Greek polis as a community without a state.

In 2009 he published a book arguing that Israel should define its nationhood by territorial citizenship rather than religion. In 2019 he published a book on Zionism and the Holocaust. He supports a one-state solution with annexation of the West Bank and Gaza and a path to full citizenship for non-Jews.

Milestones in Moshe Berent's life

1954
Born in Israel.
1988
Co-wrote Israeli National Consciousness with Joseph and Judith Buber Agassi.
1998
Published a study on stasis and the Greek invention of politics.
2000
Published a paper on war and the stateless polis in Classical Quarterly.
2009
Published A Nation Like All Nations in Hebrew.
2012
Wrote on conscripting Arabs into the army as a national interest.
2019
Published The Jewish Cause, a book on Zionism and the Holocaust.