Dr. Tal Becker currently serves as Vice President of the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem where he leads initiatives on Israel and the Jewish world. He has recently completed extended service as Legal Adviser of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With almost three decades of experience on the front lines of many of Israel's most pressing diplomatic legal and policy challenges, Dr. Becker has been counsel to Israel's UN Mission in New York, a senior member of the Israeli peace negotiation team in successive rounds of peace negotiations, a lead drafter and negotiator of the Abraham Accords, and Israel's representative before the International Court of Justice in the recent proceedings initiated by South Africa.