14 Facts About Noah Efron

Noah Jonathan Efron is a professor at Bar-Ilan University, where he was founding chair of the interdisciplinary program on Science, Technology, and Society.

Noah Efron is a standing member of Israel's National Committee for Transgenic Plants, and participated in Knesset deliberations on human cloning legislation.

Noah Efron is a former member of the Tel Aviv City Council, a published author, and the host of a popular podcast.

Noah Efron was born on December 16,1959, to Herman and Rosalyn Noah Efron in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Noah Efron grew up in a religious Jewish home, attending a yeshiva and adhering to the rules of kashrut and Shabbat.

Noah Efron spent the following year traveling throughout Northern Africa researching its Jewish communities.

In 1983 Noah Efron moved to Israel with his girlfriend Susan Warchaizer, as part of a gar'in aliyah.

Noah Efron moved to Tel Aviv to attend graduate school in 1987.

Noah Efron was a post-doctoral fellow of the Department of History of Science of Harvard University between 1995 and 1997, and later a post-doctoral fellow of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1997 and 1999.

Noah Efron's essays have appeared in Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, Hadassah Magazine, Commentary, Moment, Midstream, the Boston Book Review, the Jewish Review of Books, Haaretz, Yediot Aharonot, Maariv, Le Monde, Tikkun, Jewish Action, the Jewish World Review, the Jerusalem Report, Zocalo Public Square, the Times of Israel, and the Huffington Post.

Noah Efron was a member of the Tel Aviv City Council, as a part of the Ir LeKulanu party, starting in 2008 and ending in 2011 when he was replaced by Sharon Luzon in accordance with the party's rotation agreement.

Noah Efron led a campaign to insure that citizens have an opportunity to voice their ideas and grievances before city council, he actively advocated for the publishing and digital upload of the city budget plan before and after its approval.

Noah Efron was a founding member of the Green Movement party.

In 2011, Noah Efron created and began hosting The Promised Podcast, produced by the Tel Aviv-based podcast network TLV1.