Ben Cooper, United Kingdom, is an MA student in Security and Diplomacy at Tel Aviv University. He earned an LLB in Law from the University of Sussex, where he was elected president of the Jewish Society. He later interned at the Herzog Fox & Neeman law firm in Tel Aviv and has lived on a kibbutz in Israel since graduating. His experiences in law, Israel, and community leadership inform his interest in security, diplomacy, and Jewish communal life.