About Nir:

Dr. Nir Boms is a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University and at the International Center for Counter Terrorism in Hertzliya. Nir specialises in regional cooperation between Israel and its Arab neighbours and has done extensive cross-community work in Israel and Palestine. In 2012 he co-founded the Tiyul-Rihla project, a bi-national educational initiative bringing Israelis and Palestinians together to travel and learn the history and identity of each other. Before he returned to Israel, Nir pursued his passion for foreign policy as Vice President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington D.C.