I help organizations bring ideas to life, shaping messages and policies that create meaningful outcomes and lasting value.
"In an age where truths are contested, deceit is the norm and accountability is often omitted from our social vocabulary, we have a moral duty to earn trust, communicate clearly, and advance policy with a moral compass guiding our actions."
Arnon Spiegel
About Me
I am currently the Director of Public Affairs at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, one of the world’s leading think tanks for defense and foreign affairs. When I joined, my mission was clear: to ensure that the Institute’s cutting-edge research would not remain confined to academic circles, but instead shape real-world policy and strengthen Israel’s national security.
To achieve this, I built INSS’s public policy and global communications activities from the ground up. My approach has always been to rely on data technologies to sharpen product marketing, outreach, and distribution, ensuring that research reaches the audiences that need it most, while also emphasizing in-person lobbying and relationship-building, rooted in trust and a client-oriented mindset.
Together, these strategies expanded INSS’s network with elected officials, senior civil servants, and diplomats, positioning the Institute closer to decision-makers than ever before. At the same time, I led a transformation in INSS’s global communications. By cultivating strong relationships with journalists and developing new channels, I boosted the Institute’s media visibility twentyfold, raising its profile as a global voice in national security policy discussions. Before INSS, I served as a senior advisor to the Speaker of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset). It was an intense and fast-paced environment where every decision mattered. I managed international media relations, speeches, and social media, tripling the Speaker’s online reach, and I learned how to navigate crisis management under pressure. That period honed my adaptability, emotional intelligence, and ability to work across diverse political and cultural divides. I hold a master’s degree in War Studies from King’s College London and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My main area of study was the ethics of armed conflict, in particular the ethics of autonomous weapons systems and artificial intelligence. This research gave me a strong foundation for understanding how emerging technologies intersect with security and policy, and it sparked my ongoing fascination with artificial intelligence. I remain deeply interested in exploring how AI tools can be applied responsibly and effectively, and I am open to integrating them into my work to enhance strategy, communications, and decision-making. For me, public affairs is about connecting ideas with people. I believe that trust, credibility, and dialogue are what ultimately drive meaningful change, ensuring that knowledge translates into decisions that contribute positively to society and shape the future.
Expertise
My expertise lies in public policy, government relations, strategy and public relations. I view these fields as practical tools for shaping agendas, influencing decision-making and strengthening national security through trust, credibility, and informed dialogue.
Media Collaborations
Background
Software Skills
Industries
Experience
2023 - Present
The Institue For National Security Studies
Director of Public Affairs
I established the INSS’s public policy activities by integrating a product-centric and customer service mindset, while managing high-level stakeholder relations with political leadership, government officials, foreign diplomats, civil society leaders, and international organizations. I introduced information technologies and performance metrics to improve client outreach, messaging, and efficiency, and I advise executives while collaborating closely with the research, digital, partnerships, and events teams.
2021-2022
Office of the Speaker of the Knesset
International Media Spokesperson & Social Media Manager
I served as a trusted communications advisor to the Speaker of the Knesset, managing international media relations and digital channels, writing speeches, and issuing press releases. I developed a multi-platform content strategy that resulted in 200% growth in social media followers, and I coordinated the Speaker’s official visits, ensuring seamless logistics, effective communications, and high-level execution.
2020-2021
Mitvim - The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies
Government Relations Coordinator
I was responsible for advancing Mitvim's policy recommendations into positions of influence by cultivating and managing the institute’s relationships with politicians, organizing briefings, promoting strategic collaborations, and highlighting Mitvim’s expertise in foreign affairs. In addition, I monitored parliamentary activity on foreign policy and encouraged politicians to engage with these issues through their parliamentary tools and public platforms.
2019
The Knesset
Spokesperson and Foreign Affairs Advisor
I was responsible for advancing the MP’s agenda with foreign audiences, diplomats, and international organizations, while also working closely with journalists, managing social media accounts, and drafting posts, press releases, and speeches. I provided strategic advice to the MP on a wide range of international and domestic issues and conducted both policy and political research. This role demanded long hours in a fast-paced, sensitive, and highly dynamic environment that required constant multitasking and precision.
2017-2019
Freelance
Researcher and Translator
I worked as a freelance researcher and translator, primarily of Hebrew documents to English, for a British project on the Holocaust.
2014-2015
The Knesset
Intern
Drafted policy briefings, attended and summarized parliamentary committees, conducted research to support legislation, organized political conventions, responded to public inquiries, and assisted with communications tasks during internships, including preparing press materials and supporting the spokesperson.
2014-2015
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research Assistant
I was a research assistant for Prof Sharon Gilad at the Department of Public Policy. The research studied the effects that Israel’s social protest of 2011 had on the civil service. My role was to catalogue, using MS Excel, the government’s ads/press releases and transcribe and summarise dozens of interviews with senior government officials held by the lead researchers.
Education
2016-2018
Master of Arts
King's College London
War Studies
I specialized in AI ethics, future military technological trends and war ethics, with my thesis focused on developing a normative theory for Autonomous Weapon Systems. My coursework included Strategy, Ethics, Risk in Political Uncertainty, Open-Source Intelligence and National Security Studies, along with additional focus on data ethics and digital-age privacy.
2012-2016
Bachelor of Arts
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Philosophy and Political Science
My studies examined how moral values shape decisions in times of war, from the classical foundations of just war theory to modern frameworks such as the Rome Statute. In one seminar, I researched questions of free will in the context of war and the moral legitimacy of “wars of no choice,” while in another I focused on reconciliation and forgiveness between soldiers as part of the broader ethical responsibilities of leaders and combatants. This combination of philosophy and political science provided me with a rigorous understanding of how ideas about justice, responsibility, and morality continue to inform contemporary debates,
National Security Podcast
The National Security Podcast was a collaboration between i24NEWS and INSS, an initiative I launched as part of a broader strategy to expand INSS’s reach to international audiences. The goal was not only to raise visibility but also to create original, high-quality national security content that complemented the institute’s traditional expert contributions to the press. I recruited the researchers, selected the topics, shaped the scripts, and worked with i24 on production and distribution. Together, we produced 26 episodes, each averaging about 8,000 viewers.
No Collections Here
Sort your projects into collections. Click on "Manage Collections" to get started
My Journey
I’ve always been drawn to meaning, to the deeper questions of how we live, who we choose to be, and which virtues are worth cultivating. The inherent desire to reflect also correlates with a desire to explore, to be exposed to new cultures, ideas, and ways of life different than my own. At the beginning of my journey to India and Indochina, I decided to buy a DSLR camera. Initially I thought it would be a nice gadget to document my memories, but fairly quickly I realized that looking through a lens gave me a unique perspective to truly appreciate the people, the architecture, and the culture I was capturing. In a way, it allowed me to both observe and immerse myself at the same time.
All the images in this section are from my own album.
Looking back at it, that curiosity led me to study philosophy alongside political science for my bachelor’s degree when I returned home. Political science was an obvious choice. As a teenager I was always following current affairs and reading newspapers to understand what was going around me. Nonetheless, my entry into politics was almost coincidental. During my first year of university, I was about to catch the bus home when I stumbled upon a political event on campus to form a new political club. That chance encounter pulled me in. I was among the club's "founders" and was picked to chair the club during its initial formative years, as we were trying to build a structure, a culture, meaningful activities and an organizational DNA.
This opened the door to a parliamentary internship alongside a research assistant position in the university's Department of Public Policy. At the same time, every summer I returned to India, volunteering with children from Mumbai’s poorest slums. The experience was eye-opening, as in parliament I learned the mechanics of policy and governance, while in Mumbai I learned how difficult it is to change systemic realities, but also how powerful it can be to create small, lasting positive memories that might shape someone’s path for years to come.
The Challenge of Our Times: Aligning AI with Human Values
One of the greatest challenges of our time, and a central ethical concern posed by artificial intelligence, is the fear of its immoral applications. This is best illustrated by the Value Alignment Problem: the risk that the goals and values pursued by AI systems diverge from those of humans, potentially causing serious harm to individuals and even catastrophic consequences for humanity.
As AI progresses toward Artificial General Intelligence, we must design an ethical architecture, a coordinated framework that defines the considerations, stipulations, prohibitions, permissions, and responses guiding autonomous systems, to ensure that AI behaves in ways consistent with moral reasoning and can weigh normative considerations, at least on par with human judgment.
This is where public policy becomes essential. Governments and international institutions must take an active role in setting the rules of the game, ensuring that innovation does not outpace accountability and run wild, providing mechanisms to embed ethical standards and align technological progress with societal values.
