Nir Boms is a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University and at the International Centre for Counter–Terrorism in Herzliya, Israel. He is a member of the board of the Israeli Council on Foreign Relations and the  Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education and the co-founder of CyberDissidents.org, a network of bloggers from the Middle East that focuses on freedom of expression and the promotion of dialogue in the region. In 2012, he co-founded the Tiyul-Rihla project, a bi-national educational initiative bringing Israelis and Palestinians together to travel and learn about each other’s history and identity. Prior to his return to Israel in 2004, Boms served as the vice president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.