Shuki Friedman

Shuki Friedman

Shuki (Yehoshua) Friedman is a jurist, researcher on religion and state, a publicist and a low consultant on financial regulations compliance and terrorism financing. Friedman's main areas of expertise are religion and state relations in Israel, constitutional law, international law and Muslim law.

Early life and education

Shuki Friedman was born in Haifa in 1972. He is a graduate of the Yeshivat Har Etzion, where he was ordained a Rabbi by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. He is Reserve duty (Israel) commanding officer. He holds a bachelor of laws, bachelor's degree in economics and Middle Eastern studies, as well as a master's degree in law from Bar-Ilan University. He earned his Ph.D is on Islamic public law (Sharia) from Bar-Ilan University . He won the President's Scholarship of Bar-Ilan University as well as other scholarships.
He is Married to Oshrit, they have 5 kids and live in Giv'at Shmuel.

Career

Friedman began working at the Prime Minister's Office (Israel) (2005-2013) as the Head of International Law, specializing in local and international financial regulation and compliance of financial institutions. He initiated the adjustment of the sanctions regime against Iran and served as chairman of the Sanctions Committee against Iran. and then initiated also the Sanctions Headquarters established in the Ministry of Finance (Israel). He served as Secretary of the Defense Budget Review Committee (Locker Committee)

In 2021 he became the vice president of the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI). Before that he was the director of the Center for Nationality, Religion, and State at the Israel Democracy Institute. where he initiated a policy for reforming the core issues in religion and state relations. Focusing on formulating a proposal for a new status quo that received widespread political support. At the same time, he also dealt extensively with the integration of the ultra-Orthodox into the Israeli society and published breaking ground studies on that topic. Since 2013 he has been serving as a faculty member at the School of Law at the Peres Academic Center.

Friedman consultant to local and international companies in the field of compliance, including advising Bank Leumi and Bank Hapoalim in these fields.

In addition, published over two hundred opinion columns in the Haaretz newspapers (where he runs a blog called "Centralnik"), Israel Today, and the international press.

Books

• "The Erosion of the Status Quo in the Relations Between Religion & State in Israel", The Israel Democracy institute, 2019

• "Certification of Judaism in Israel, with: Elad Caplan, Alon Shalev", The Israel Democracy institute, 2019

• "A Plan to Reduce Tension between Religion and State in Israel, Recommendations for Policy Makers - Elections 2015, with: Dr. Gilad Malach, Yair Sheleg, Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern", The Israel Democracy institute, 2015

• "Rabbis and Rabbinate, with Prof. Yedidia Z.Stern", The Israel Democracy institute, 2011

• "The Religious Community and the Constitution. What Can History Teach Us? with Prof. Amichai Radzyner, Supervisor Prof. Yedidia Z.Stern", The Israel Democracy institute, 2006

Lectures

Israel and World Jewry - YouTube
Religion & State:The Kosher Monopoly - YouTube

References

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