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Ofir Haivry

Ofir Haivry is an Israeli political philosopher and historian, a founder of the Shalem Center and vice president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem.

born 1964Co-founding the Shalem CenterFounding editor of AzureConservative political thoughtBook on John Selden

Occupation: newspaper editor, journalist, opinion journalist, historian
Education: Tel Aviv University

Ofir Haivry was born in 1964

Ofir Haivry was born in 1964. In 1988 he was ninth on the Moledet party list for the Knesset, led by Rehavam Ze'evi, and did not enter the Knesset. In 1989 he headed the party's list for the Tel Aviv-Yafo city council.

From 1990 to 1993 he was foreign news editor of the weekly Haolam Hazeh. He earned a BA and MA in history from Tel Aviv University and a PhD from University College London in 2005.

In 1994 he was one of the founders of the Shalem Center, and in 1996 he became the first editor-in-chief of the journal Azure. He was academic director of the Shalem Center from 2002 to 2012. In 2012 he founded an institute with Yoram Hazony that became the Herzl Institute in 2013.

He has served on the Council for Higher Education since 2010 and on the Council for Archaeology. In 2017 he founded the Golan Unity Forum and published a book on John Selden with Cambridge University Press. He also heads the Center for Study of The Dispersed of Israel at Yad Ben Zvi.