Elad Ben David is a Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar Ilan University, and 2025 ISGAP Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with Da’wa (call to Islam) in post-9/11 America, focusing on the doctrine of Sheikh Yasir Qadhi. His degrees at Bar Ilan were combined with graduation from the ‘Yeselzon Institute of Advanced Torah Studies.’ Elad’s current research at CSoC is a comparative study of YouTuber Israeli Rabbis and American Imams as religious agents who confront the traumatic COVID-19 pandemic. Ben David is also a research associate at the Forum of Regional Thinking, where he published many articles regarding contemporary Islam in America. Elad is also a board member of the Israeli Association for the Study of Religions (IASR), and is active in interfaith encounters and dialogue with Muslims worldwide.
