Dr. Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu

Director of the Israel–Europe Relations Program

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Dr. Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu is the Director of the Israel – Europe Relations Program at Mitvim. Maya teaches about the European Union’s (EU) history, institutions, decision-making, policy fields (especially its foreign policy and differentiated integration), and about the EU’s relations with Israel at the European Forum at the Hebrew University and at the European Union Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. Maya also teaches at the School of Public Policy, the Hebrew University. She holds a Ph.D in European Studies and Political Science (Comparative Politics) from the Hebrew University and was a 2003 Institute for Human Science (IWM), Vienna, junior fellow researcher. She is the recipient of the Jean Monnet module competitive grant. Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu is a member of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration (IASEI) Executive Committee since 2005, and was its Co-President between 2016-2021. Her areas of expertise include, among others, European Union and European integration, EU – Israel relations, the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and differentiated integration.

Dr. Sion-Tzidkiyahu can be followed on Twitter @MayaSionT.