The Herut Center was founded in the conviction that ideas matter, and that great leadership depends on their articulation and development. We believe that Jewish, conservative, and Israeli intellectual leadership – whether social, cultural, economic, or religious – can help create a flourishing future for the Jewish people, for Israel, and for the West as a whole. Supporting programs, publications, and partner institutions, the Herut Center is privileged to help advance this mission with a broad community of thinkers and practitioners in the State of Israel.
The Herut Center has launched a variety of intellectual projects advancing conservative ideas in the Israeli cultural and political landscape.
Nearly 2,000 students, young, and senior professionals have participated in Herut Center seminars, delving into the foundations of law, economics, Zionism, strategy, and more. Here’s what some members of our outstanding alumni community have to say about their experience.
“The program opened up entire worlds of economic philosophy for me. I was exposed to formative texts which helped me expand and deepen my knowledge in matters of policy.”
“The three weeks of the program were more fascinating for me than three years of university. The combination of the students and the faculty was perfect.”
“Herut Center provided me with one of the most significant intellectual experiences I’ve had in my life.”
“The Herut Center gave me the intellectual tools to deal with my questions, and sometimes an instinctive opposition, to certain concepts taught in academia.”
“Ten years ago, the Herut Center seminar opened a window into a whole world of ideas, insights, initiatives, and collaborations for me.”
“Courses and lectures at the Herut Center convey a unique understanding of the reality in which human societies operate and the right way to make changes and influence processes.”
“The Herut Center contributes to balancing between the more commonly held leftwing economic and political approaches and the attitudes of the Right to economics and politics, Zionism and traditionalism.”
“The Herut Center has slowly but surely helped cultivate and grow the language and foundational ideas on which Israel’s liberal-national camp rests.”
The conference is a gathering of opinion leaders, citizens, and activists interested in the conservative agenda and what it has to offer the State of Israel.
Leading thinkers in political, religious, cultural, and social affairs lay out their ideas. Here, MK Ayelet Shaked shares her thoughts on Israeli democracy.
The website is designed to serve as a home and intellectual incubator for exposure and learning about the core issues facing Israeli society (Hebrew).
Shibolet is introducing a naturally conservative Israeli public to contemporary conservative thinkers of the West. Here’s how the library works (Hebrew).
In one of her final public appearances, Professor Ruth Gavison makes the case for judicial restraint in debate with Professor Barak Medina.
A longform essay yields responses every month. Read the moving March 2021 exchange on love, stability, and reciprocity in marriage.
