Scholars 2023-24 | Institute for Advanced Israel Studies | Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Dahlia Scheindlin, Century Foundation

Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is a public opinion expert and strategic consultant with over twenty years of experience, specializing in liberal and progressive social causes. She has advised nine national campaigns in Israel and worked in 15 other countries. Dahlia conducts research and policy analysis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, regional foreign policy, democracy, human and civil rights, minority issues, religion and state, analysis of domestic politics, comparative conflicts and comparative politics. Its clients include local and international civil society groups, think tanks and political actors. She has regional expertise in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, particularly in post-conflict societies and democracies in transition.

Dahlia holds a PhD in political science from Tel Aviv University and has taught at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University, Jezreel Valley College, and Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus. She is co-founder of +972 magazine and a member of the advisory board of Jewish Currents magazine. Dahlia is currently a member of the Century Foundation; she co-hosts the podcast The Tel Aviv Review and, in 2021, co-hosted the podcast Election Overdose at the Haaretz newspaper where she now has a regular column; she is also a regular commentator on world affairs for the BBC television program Context. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Time, The Guardian/Observer, Dissent, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The Washington Quarterly, among others. His book, “The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled,” will be published in September 2023.