Asher is Director of the Academic Excellence Programme at Yad Hanadiv. In this role, he has worked to develop new strategies in biomedical science, including support for precision medicine and advancing Physician-Researchers in Israel, together with philanthropic and government partners. The Academic Excellence Programme also supports expanding the reach of Humanities education to new students and programmes in universities, as well as a joint strategy (together with the Arab Community Programme) to advance outstanding Arab students in Science and Engineering. In addition, Asher guides Yad Hanadiv’s support for digital efforts of the National Library of Israel. He holds a PhD from Harvard University in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Asher joined Yad Hanadiv in 2006.

As Senior Programme Officer, Talya develops and promotes the strategies of Arab Excellence, and Diversity of Excellence initiatives to increase representation of first-generation students. Prior to joining Yad Hanadiv, Talya managed the Council for Higher Education’s national programme for increasing the accessibility to higher education of Israel’s geographic and social periphery. For a decade Talya was a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute, where she managed the International Proportionality in Public Policy research programme – an empirical investigation of the ways in which policy makers consider rights protection. Talya holds a PhD in Law from The Hebrew University and an LLM from Harvard Law School, and she lectures in public and constitutional law. She joined Yad Hanadiv in 2022.

Sharon is responsible for managing the Rothschild Fellowships and Rothschild Prizes. In this role, he oversees the application process, coordinates the work of the selection committees, and manages relations with Fellows and prize winners, including organising the Rothschild Fellowship Colloquium. He brings extensive experience in project management and production in the fields of culture and the humanities. Most recently, Sharon directed the Jerusalem International Book Forum and produced cultural events in the city. Previously, he represented literary rights at the Deborah Harris Agency. Sharon holds a PhD in Hebrew Literature from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; his research focused on representations of development towns in Israeli fiction. He joined Yad Hanadiv in 2025