Dr. Tal Becker is Vice President of the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and recently completed his service as the Legal Adviser of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Becker represented Israel before the International Court of Justice in the Hague and is a veteran member of successive Israeli peace negotiation teams, including playing an instrumental role in negotiating and drafting the historic peace and normalization agreements (the “Abraham Accords”) between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco. Dr. Becker has decades of experience on the front lines of many of Israel’s most pressing diplomatic, legal and policy challenges and has worked as a key behind the scenes representative for Israel in a wide variety of contexts. He previously served as counsel to Israel’s UN Mission in New York, as a senior policy advisor to Israel’s Foreign Minister, and as an international law expert for the IDF. In his work at the Hartman Institute, Dr. Becker leads educational initiatives about Israel and the Jewish world. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University in New York, and is the recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including the Rabin Peace Prize, and the Guggenheim Prize for best international law book for his book “Terrorism and the State”. Dr. Becker lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Rebecca, and has six children.
