Dr. Arik Rudnitzky has been researching Arab Israeli issues for more than two decades. His fields of expertise cover political, national and social developments in Israel's Arab society; Jewish-Arab relations; and government policies on Arabs in Israel. He holds research positions at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, and at the Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem. He holds a PhD degree from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University, as well as MA and BA degrees in Middle Eastern History from the Faculty of Humanities and an MBA degree from the Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University.