Rami Hod is currently the Executive Director of the Berl Katznelson Center (BKC), a “Think-and-Do Tank” that builds the ideas, policies, and leadership of liberal Zionism in Israel. While providing regular commentary to Israel’s mainstream media and major publications, Hod has concurrently established the National Taskforce to Safeguard Israel’s Public Education, initiated the 100 Days Plan for Israel's Democracy—a comprehensive blueprint of major policy programs for Israel after the Netanyahu government’s judicial overhaul—and served on the public Directorate of Israel’s National Social Services (Bituach Leumi) Council, which consults the Social Services Minister on key policy issues. He holds an MA in Sociology from Ben Gurion University in the Negev.

Hod’s research for the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center will focus on the fundamental inequality underlying Israel's education system, and how it plays a crucial role in the erosion of the country's democratic values. In the heated discourse surrounding the recent judicial overhaul attempt in Israel, much attention is given to the country's longtime democratic backsliding, but Hod asserts that the role of Israel’s education system therewithin is hardly discussed. His project first seeks to analyze this relationship between democratic values and the structure of education in Israel and then propose a new paradigm to guide the country's education policy, including practical policy steps to restore the teaching of democratic values across the education system. Hod makes the case that the current unprecedented civil awakening in Israel and the attentiveness of the Israeli public to new ideas is a rare, historical opportunity to push forward such new policy directions.