Intellectual Resilience and the Courage to Doubt

Daniel Taub is an Israeli diplomat and international lawyer who teaches Biblical and Talmudic texts at Pardes. He served on Israel’s negotiation teams in the Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and later as Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He also served as Director of Strategy and Planning at the Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild) Foundation.

Daniel is the author of Parasha Diplomatit, a collection of diplomatic reflections on biblical texts, and creator of the Israeli drama series HeChatzer. Educated at Oxford, University College London and Harvard’s Kennedy School, he also studied at Pardes in 1985–1986. Daniel lives in Jerusalem with his wife Zehava and their six children.