Ehud (Udi) Prawer is a Senior Fellow at Tachlith. He has dedicated half of his professional life to education, serving as the Chief Instructor of the Scouts movement, an IDF Education Officer up to the rank of Colonel, and the Principal of the Hebrew Reali School in Jerusalem. In the second half of his career, he transitioned to the public service, serving as Deputy Head of the National Security Council, Head of Policy Planning at the Prime Minister’s Office, and Deputy Director General of Government and Society at the PMO under two prime ministers. In these roles, he led and developed infrastructure for governmental planning, public engagement in government work, and the reduction of excessive regulation.
Concurrently, he led socioeconomic integration programs for citizens of Ethiopian descent (the “New Way” initiative) and a government effort (alongside Minister Ze’ev Binyamin Begin) aimed at regulating Bedouin settlement in the Negev. In his final years in the civil service, he served as Acting Civil Service Commissioner. He summarized the essence of his state service experience in the booklet Why Didn’t Begin Bang on the Table?, published by the School of Political Science at Tel Aviv University.
Upon completing his government roles in 2020, he was among the founders of the Centennial Initiative (Yozmat HaMe’ah), where he serves as a board member. That same year, he joined the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research as Head of the Society and Populations Research Team. In this capacity, he conducted research on the relationship between reality and perception in Haredi society, most notably (along with Eliezer Hiyon) Livelihood from Heaven: The Place of Miracle in the Haredi Household Economy. He also led the institute’s “Future for Israel” initiative, which incubated nine projects for a new socio-governmental order. Alongside these activities, Ehud teaches in the Department of Public Policy at Sapir Academic College.
Ehud Prawer holds a Master’s degree in the History of Education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is married to Leah, a father of three, and a grandfather of five.
