Prof. Moshe Koppel serves as chairman of Kohelet Policy Forum.
He received his PhD in mathematics from Courant Institute and did post-doctoral work in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Koppel’s main areas of research in computer science include machine learning and social choice theory. His work on authorship attribution is widely put to use in commercial, legal and security applications. Koppel has also published two books and many articles on Rabbinic literature, with special emphasis on logic and probability. He co-founded and co-edited the journal Higayon, devoted to these topics.
Koppel’s political activity includes co-drafting two proposed constitutions for Israel, one in collaboration with Michael Eitan, then Chairman of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. Several law proposals drafted by Prof. Koppel have been passed into law by the Knesset.
