Abraham Diskin is a professor (emeritus) of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and head of the School for Interdisciplinary Studies in Administration, Government and Law at Sha’arei Mishpat College. He was the Chair of the Political Science Department of Hebrew University and the Chair of the Israel Political Science Association. He also served as a visiting professor in the USA, Canada, and Japan. Diskin has published more than twenty academic books and monographs – most of them on Israeli politics, and approximately two hundred academic articles. He frequently serves as an analyst for both the Israeli and the international media and councils Knesset committees, governmental ministries and leading Israeli politicians