1. Yossi Shain is an Israeli Politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2019 and 2022 He is the Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University where he serves as head of TAU's School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, head of the Abba Eban Graduate Studies Program in Diplomacy and director of the Frances Brody Institute for Applied Diplomacy.
Yossi Shain is a full professor of comparative government and diaspora politics at Georgetown University, and the founding director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown.
In July 2016 Professor Shain was appointed as a member of Council for Higher Education in Israel, and he is heading the national committee in charge in rejuvenating liberal arts and the humanities.
Yossi Shain held many visiting appointments, including at Sciences Po in Paris, Yale University, Wesleyan University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Middlebury College.
Yossi Shain was a visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University, and senior visiting fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University.
Yossi Shain has lectured around the world and was honored as the David and Goldie Blanksteen in Jewish Ethics at Yale Law School, as Olin Lecturer at the Harvard Lecturer Academy and as the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Chair at Georgetown.
Yossi Shain worked with NGOs in Israel, the US, the UK, Mexico, and Armenia, and served for three years as President of the Israeli Local Government Conference.
Yossi Shain received grants and awards from the French and German governments for his work on nationalism, ethnicity, and Diaspora politics, from the SSRC, the Bradley Foundation and from the Center for Democracy.
Yossi Shain edited Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics, and co-edited Democracy: The Challenges Ahead and Power and the Past: Collective Memory in International Affairs.
Yossi Shain is working on a book manuscript entitled, The Israelization of Judaism to be accompanied by a documentary.
Yossi Shain has published over 50 scholarly articles in academic journals and edited books.
Yossi Shain's articles have appeared in International Organization, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, International Affairs, Orbis, Political Science Q, The Journal of Democracy, The Journal of Political Science, Government and Opposition, and Nations and Nationalism.
Yossi Shain served as special adviser to Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Yossi Shain is a regular contributor to the op-ed page of Israel's leading daily Yediot Achronot, and has contributed numerous essays to other newspapers and magazines.
Yossi Shain is a nationally known commentator on Israeli television and radio.
Yossi Shain has been a guest on many political news shows in Europe and the US, including the BBC, NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, PBS, Al-Jazeera, and The News Hour.