Dr. Moshe Koppel

Har Etzion alumnus machzor 1974, Dr. Koppel is an American-Israeli computer scientist, Talmud scholar and political activist. Koppel was born and raised in New-York, where he received a traditional Jewish education. He received a B.A. from Yeshiva University and in 1979 completed his doctorate in mathematics under the supervision of Martin Davis at the Courant Institute of New York University. He spent a post-doctoral year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before moving to Israel in 1980. He has been a member of the Department of Computer Science in Bar-Ilan University since then.