Noah Efron

Noah Efron is a fellow of Shaharit, a think-tank for new Israeli politics, and has served on Tel Aviv's City Council. He teaches at Bar Ilan University, where he was the founding chair of the Program in Science, Technology & Society. He has served as the President of the Israeli Society for History & Philosophy of Science, as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Science and Religion, and of the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Center for Science and Religion.

Efron has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology at MIT and a Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of Real Jews: Secular, Ultra-orthodox and the Struggle for Jewish Identity in Israel and, most recently, of Judaism & Science: A Historical Introduction. His essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines and journals.

Efron played bass for an ill-fated band called Liquid Plumr. He has run marathons, slowly, on three continents. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, daughter, son, bunny and dog.