Israel Harel is the Head of the Institute for Religious Zionism at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. For the last four years, he has also been Director of the Institute's Leadership Program. Within the framework of this program, 30 participants from the fields of academia, public service, religion, technology, law, communications and social service deal with religious, social, security, Zionism (among other topics, the future of the Jewish people), economic and other issues which are central in the life of the Jewish people and the world at large.