Yaacov Katz

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.