Ronen Shoval

Ronen Shoval (Hebrew: רונן שובל, born 1980 in Ramat Hasharon) is an Israeli thinker & writer associate to the right-wing. Shoval is the Dean of the Tikvah Fund and head of the Argaman Institute. He is Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University.

Ronen Shoval

He is the founder of the extra-parliamentary movement Im Tirtzu,[1][2][3][4] and presided as its first chairman (2007–2013).[5] Ronen is the author of the book Herzl's Vision 2.0, a manifest for the rejuvenating Zionism (Im Tirtzu, Kochav M'Israel).[6] He is a columnist in the Israeli newspaper Israel-Hayom and previously wrote in Haaretz, Maariv and Makor Rishon. He was a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, at a pre-army mechina (a preparatory program), and at other colleges in Israel. He was also a research associate at the Institute for Zionist Strategies. He was elected a board member of the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency[7] and Keren Hayesod. In 2013, Ronen was named by the Algemeiner Journal as one of the 100 people who had the biggest positive impact on Jewish life in 2012.[8]

Ronen holds a B.A in international relations and an M.A in Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University. He earned a PhD in Jewish political thought from the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense[9] (graduating summa cum laude, mentored by Prof. Shmuel Trigano). Ronen is married, and has five children.