Dr. Aviad Bakshi is head of the legal department in Kohelet Policy Forum. Dr. Bakshi, a former Hesder Yeshiva teacher, completed his first and second law degrees with honors at Bar Ilan University and was admitted to the Israeli bar after interning at the High Court Department at the State Attorney’s Office. Dr. Bakshi wrote his doctoral thesis as part of the The Program for President Scholarships for excellent doctoral students on “The Proper Constitutional Significance of Israel as a Jewish Nation-State,” which won the 2012 Begin Award . During his doctorate Dr. Bakshi served as research fellow at the Schwartz Institute of Political Philosophy Studies at Beit Morasha. Since 2004, Dr. Bakshi has been involved in legislative and constitutional initiatives as an independent scholar, a member of the IZS constitution team, legal editor of MK Michael Eitan and Prof. Moshe Koppel’s constitution proposal, head of Bar Ilan University’s Weiler Foundation’s legislative project and director of the Berliner Institute – Ono Academic College clinic for legislative initiatives. Dr. Bakshi’s public law research focuses on issues relating to Israel’s identity as a democratic nation-state and issues related to separation of powers. Alongside his work at Kohelet Forum, Dr. Bakshi teaches Constitutional and Administrative Law at Ono Academic College and Bar Ilan University.