Dr. Moshe Koppel is a leading computer scientist in Israel, with a
specific expertise in AI. But over past twenty years he has led an
intellectual movement promoting judicial reform within Israel.
Through his Kohelet Policy Forum, Dr. Koppel researches alternatives to
the entrenched judicial dynamics, and advocates for what he considers a
more balanced and democratic approach, in line with other Western
countries. Obviously, this topic has been at the center of stormy
debates and protests in Israel; while it seemed to subside in the wake
of the October 7th tragedy, this issue has returned to the foreground,
with broad implications for swaths of Israeli society, perhaps most
notably, the chareidim.
We speak today with Dr. Koppel about the history and intellectual
perspective of this movement, how and why it seemed to unravel, and
where the typically non-ideological and narrowly focus charedi public
fits in to the story.
