Dr.
Yaacov Katz serves as Director of the School of Education as well
as Head of the Institute for Community Research at Bar-Ilan
University. He specializes in the study of attitudes in Israeli
society in general and in particular conducts opinion polls on
socio-political issues of public interest in Israel. Dr. Katz has
published numerous academic papers on social attitudes in Israeli
society in international journals. Dr. Katz also served as personal
advisor and pollster to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.