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Yossi Shain

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Yossi Shain ( Hebrew : יוסי שיין ; born 21 September 1956) is an Israeli Politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2019 and 2022 He is also the Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University where he also serves as head of TAU's School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, head of the Abba Eban Graduate Studies Program in Diplomacy and director of the Frances Brody Institute for Applied Diplomacy . He is also a full professor of comparative government and diaspora politics at Georgetown University , and the founding director of the Program for Jewish Civilization (PJC) at Georgetown. In 2007, he also served (pro-bono) as president of Western Galilee College . (philosophy-1981 cum laude ) and M.A. (political science-1983) degrees from Tel Aviv University and received his Ph.D. in political science (with distinction) from Yale University in 1988. In July 2016 Professor Shain was appointed as a member of Council for Higher Education in Israel , and he is now heading the national committee in charge in rejuvenating liberal arts and the humanities.

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israeli politician who served as a member of the knesset for yisrael beiteinu between 2019 and 2022 he is also

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