Neta Polizer

Director, Israeli Network, Israel

From a small village in the north of Israel, Neta has extensive experience of more than a decade in the fields of experiential Jewish education and group facilitation. Neta has worked for ‘Bina,’ where he founded leadership and social change programs for youth from social peripheries. He has also worked in the Institution for Experiential Jewish Education (M2) where he conducted research on experiential Jewish education in Israel and developed training programs for educators. In addition to his work at Encounter, Neta is working at the Bronfman Youth Fellowship as the educational manager of the Israeli fellows’ program. Neta holds a BA in Arabic literature and comparative literature from the Hebrew University. He is currently writing his MA thesis in Islamic studies at the ‘Freie Universitat’ in Berlin, focusing on the emergence of modern and contemporary concepts of identity in postcolonial Arab societies. Neta is married to Toot and lives in Jerusalem.