Yonatan Glaser is the founding Director of B’Zedek (‘in Justice’), an initiative to activate and train Israeli youth and tertiary students in social change and social justice. A serial social and educational entrepreneur, Mr. Glaser was a co-founder
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Yonatan Glaser is the founding Director of B’Zedek (‘in Justice’), an initiative to activate and train Israeli youth and tertiary students in social change and social justice. A serial social and educational entrepreneur, Mr. Glaser was a co-founder of Netzer Olami, an International progressive Jewish-Zionist Youth Movement active in 13 countries. He later founded Hiburim, an Israeli non-profit that worked to weave together the Jewish and liberal-humanistic traditions in Israeli schools. Mr. Glaser has worked in formal and informal education settings with Israeli and Jewish Diaspora youth leaders, teachers and School Principals. He has taught, initiated new educational programs, developed curriculum and led educational interventions, worked for the Israeli Ministry of Education and participated in the Ministry’s Citizens for 21st Century Conference. Holding Law and Economics degrees from Melbourne University (Australia), Mr. Glaser earned his MA in Jewish Philosophy from Hebrew University (Israel). He is a graduate of Israel's prestigious School of Educational Leadership. Mr. Glaser served the (Jewish) Reform Movement in North America as its Central Educational Shaliach (Emissary) from 2003-5.
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