Daniel Bar-Tal

Daniel Bar-Tal (Hebrew: דניאל בר-טל; born 1946) is an Israeli academic, author and professor of social-political psychology from the Department of Education at Tel Aviv University.

Bar-Tal was born in Stalinabad, Tajikistan, USSR in 1946, but lived his childhood in Szczecin, Poland until he left for Israel at the age of 11 in 1957 with his parents.

Bar-Tal has pursued his graduate training in social psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he completed his doctoral dissertation in 1974.

Later he directed most of his attention to the study of the socio-psychological foundations of intractable conflicts and peace building, including reconciliation.

The community consists of ten to fifteen graduate and post-graduate students, mostly for doctoral degree, who have excelled in their studies.