Prof. Moshe Koppel is founding chairman of the Kohelet Policy Forum, which is widely regarded as Israel’s most influential pro-Zionist, pro-free market, think tank (– termed “the most successful initiative of the right in the past decade” by Haaretz). He also is a board member of The Tikvah Fund. He is professor emeritus of computer science at Bar-Ilan University and the author of over 100 articles in leading academic journals and proceedings in mathematics, computer science, linguistics, law, economics, political science and other disciplines. He is the founding director of Dicta, a research institute devoted to developing tools for computational analysis of Jewish texts. He also the author of three books on Jewish thought, most recently Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures (Koren Publishers).