Dr. Shai Dror Tagner is a historian specializing in nationalism, immigration, and de-polarisation in the Israeli context, as well as a group-dynamics facilitator.
He is a former researcher at the Van Leer Institute, a postdoctoral fellow at the Mendel Institute for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew
University, and research fellow at the Institute for Immigration and Social Integration at the Rupin Academic Center.
Dr. Tagner leads several de-polorisation initiatives, which bring together key public figures from across the socio-political and religious spectrum to engage in dialogue, research, and public debate.